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“What gives me away?”

By Jimmy Johnson


I’m running a little late this morning. I have some things I’m doing and some things I should be doing, but I’ve been on a bit of a roll lately, with two consecutive posts. So, I thought I’d drop by another old A&J strip from 10 years ago. By the way, over at the Universal Uclick Web site Gocomics, A&J just surpassed 60,000 subscribers. That’s not bad! Thanks to all.

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320 responses to ““What gives me away?””

  1. Mark in TTown Avatar
    Mark in TTown

    Ghost, this is from one of Jackie’s other FB sites. The pic is before the new caps, but I find it hard to see how you would improve on this smile anyway.

    https://scontent-atl3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xat1/v/t1.0-9/12042755_716152095196489_9125643108822127363_n.jpg?oh=34b21da05b953b1a2a7941a00a16944c&oe=57531A06

  2.  Avatar

    I will offend all the fans of strips like LuAnn but they are beyond sophomoric and when A and J began I lumped Jimmy right in there with the family strips with the parents and snarky kid, like LuAnn was snarky and has barely outgrown it, if she has, while Gene turned into a great young man and A and J matured into a great strip.

    Too tired to be coherent. Good night. Dentist switched my caps without anesthesia and I am appreciative of that. He said aren’t those broken ones hurting? No. Well let’s do this without shots. Let’s I said, so we did.

    Ghost, thank you so much for Fat Bottom Girls. You know I loved Freddie but how did you know how much I love Pooh? I do and always have. I have Poohs house in my back yard where he lived under the name of Smith. Actually it’s my garden house but it’s an adorable cottage. Are you absolutely sure we don’t know each other somewhere else?

  3. Ghost Rider 6 Avatar
    Ghost Rider 6

    Pretty sure we don’t, but I seem to have a knack for doing a lot of unplanned things that seem planned in retrospect.

  4. Ghost Rider 6 Avatar
    Ghost Rider 6

    Debbe 😉 Southwest meets NOLA. Result is vocal goodness.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uxE5gBucU54

  5.  Avatar

    Well, my hair is shoulder length and I am more than 50 pounds lighter which improves the smile a great deal. That is sans-makeup but then I am anyway. So the tee shirt is true. That photo is from early last summer but I will try for a new one.

    Maybe I can get a minion to take a photo tomorrow. I must have an appropriate tee shirt?

  6. Jerry in Fl Avatar
    Jerry in Fl

    One of my favorite cartoons from years ago was called Suspicions Confirmed.

  7. Old Bear Avatar
    Old Bear

    Autocorrect makes me say things I didn’t Nintendo.

  8. Mindy from Indy Avatar

    He got me!

    Debbe – “They’re coming to take me away” by Napoleon XIV Don’t know about work, haven’t been back yet. 😉 Took the week off as I thought I would be coming back for a funeral – really, REALLY glad that didn’t happen.
    Y’all is singular.
    All y’all is plural
    Y’all’s is singular possessive.
    All y’alls’ is plural possessive.

    Now, to read today’s entry. -)

  9. Jerry in Fl Avatar
    Jerry in Fl

    It takes somebody from Indy to understand southernspeak. Good night yal. There is no apostrophe.

  10. Debbe Avatar
    Debbe

    Good morning Villagers…..

    Indy Mindy, thanks…..vacation? What’s a vacation? After last evening, I need one……from this house.

    Jerry, the madness is plural…too many in-laws living here right now.

    Work is my escape….

    All y’all have a blessed day….

  11. Rick in Shermantown, Ohio Avatar
    Rick in Shermantown, Ohio

    GR6:

    Thanks for the info.

    Now, the big question is this: Does Jimmy receive any of that fee?

    If so, it will be worth subscribing.

  12. Debbe Avatar
    Debbe

    Miss Charlotte, do you know why you have kind hearted people in your life? It is because you also are a very kind hearted person…your postings have proved that. Stay warm today, lady.

  13. Jerry in Fl Avatar
    Jerry in Fl

    Linda and Aaron is a good way to start the day.

  14. Jerry in Fl Avatar
    Jerry in Fl

    Pink Floyd too.

  15.  Avatar

    I am so bloody old that the Nevilles used to play parties I went to! But so did everyone else, they took any gigs they could get in those days. Fats Domino, Jerry Lee, even Ray Charles. I was listening to Sirius driving yesterday and Jimmy Reed came on with that wailing harmonica of his and the sister or wife singing harmony. I loved the blues singers, they weren’t really rock and roll exactly, more Delta or New Orleans sound.

  16. emb Avatar
    emb

    In addition to other peculiarities, I’m a drawing geek [though have never done cartooning, just realistic studies of objects and such]. JJ does this all the time, but how minor changes in line cause Pru’s expression to change from the penultimate to ultimate panels. Lovely.

    http://www.gocomics.com/luann

    Peace, emb

  17. emb Avatar
    emb

    Whoops! ‘but note how minor changes …’ Hard to copy edit your own stuff, though of course we didn’t proof most of each other’s emails. Peace, emb

  18. emb Avatar
    emb

    3 unhatched eggs, no MDNR eagle at the moment. Female was on them 15 min. ago, so am not worried.

    http://www.webcams.dnr.state.mn.us/eagle/

    No action in Baltimore; probably both off hunting, or maybe perched [and eating?] somewhere. Female GH Owl on nest in Savannah, GA [only she incubates in GHOs; that’s in the info at the Cornell U. website].

    Peace,

  19. Mark in TTown Avatar
    Mark in TTown

    Follow up on Mom’s condition. Slight improvement at first, but increasing pain and color changing again in foot. Vascular doc told her he could do nothing else and recommended amputation below knee, with eventual fitting of prosthesis. He feels she will heal well and could get around on prosthesis with walker. I wish the news was better, but this is it.

  20. curmudgeonly ex-professor Avatar
    curmudgeonly ex-professor

    http://www.berry.edu/eaglecam/ will get you a nice live picture of the 2 less-than-a week-old eaglets there if you go there now, while the parent stands aside. View in full screen for best effect, also at highest resolution/

  21. curmudgeonly ex-professor Avatar
    curmudgeonly ex-professor

    MarkTT: Very sorry to read that news. Prayers for her as well as for others needing same.

  22. Ghost Rider 6 Avatar
    Ghost Rider 6

    Sorry to hear that, Mark. At least it would be BTK. Small comfort, I know.

  23. Ghost Rider 6 Avatar
    Ghost Rider 6

    Ref today’s cartoon, if one were smart, one would also invest twenty bucks or so in a carbon monoxide detector.

    One day while having lunch and awaiting my passengers to finish their business, I read in the city’s local newspaper about a young couple that borrowed a friend’s apartment on a cold winter’s night, turned on a gas space heater, had sex, and died.