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.
320 responses to ““What gives me away?””
After rereading past post, I discovered that an important few words were left out,i.e.,
“The distance, in inches, from the nostrils to the eyes of an alligator, is their length in feet…” Sorry for the omission.
Interesting story about alligator’s ability to climb. They can also jump out of the water!
God bless us every one.
Jackie,
Sorry, but my eyes are dark brown, as was my hair many years ago. My father, though born in Sicily, had blue eyes.
God bless us every one.
Well, I was once in love with a “brown eyed handsome man.” Remember that song?
Forgot to say that Mindy from Indy posted a wonderful article about the Disney Ducks, Donald, Uncle Scrooge and the nephews on her Facebook page. I read every word and found it fascinating. It was about five things the Ducks had invented or discovered that changed the world, long before scientists or others actually did, including an unknown element. Four of the five were from cartoons by the great Disney Duck writer that Mark loves so. And yes, the guy was genius cartoonist and writer.
Someone, Mindy, Mark should link article here. I also enjoyed a similar one about non PC cartoons when they didn’t seem concerned with offending anyone.
Back in the saddle, body and mind have not yet adjusted to the time changes. Lovely bride to a detour and is at a team meetup in Florida.
Not read any posting for like ever, so no idea what has transpired the Village. Eye color? Are we splitting up along eye color? Been hearing tales of how the USA is a failed nation, just not yet aware of the breakup. Guessing eye color would work, at least my bride and I would belong to the same clan.
No, Sand, it is my theory that while green eyes are quite rare, the Village has a high number of them which might explain our more uniqueness, like we get along and don’t polarize.
Yes, I hear some of same from both my American friends and international ones. But you know what, most of my American friends are writing about the constitution, the importance of voting and not about anti this or anti that, just not to sit it out but exercise our right to vote, no matter who. Isn’t that refreshing?
A cute story from a friend in Oz:
The other night I was invited out for a night with “the girls.” I told my husband that I would be home by midnight. “I promise!”
Well, the hours passed and the margaritas went down way too easy. Around 3 a.m., a bit blitzed, I headed home. Just as I got in the door, the cuckoo clock in the hall started up and cuckooed three times.
Quickly realizing my husband would probably wake up, I cuckooed another nine times. I was really proud of myself for coming up with such a quick-witted solution, even after drinking so much.
The next morning my husband asked me what time I got in, and I told him midnight. He didn’t seem disturbed at all. Whew! I Got away with that one! Then he said, “We need a new cuckoo clock.” When I asked him why, he said, “Well, last night our clock cuckooed three times, then said, “Oh, crap,” cuckooed 4 more times, cleared its throat, cuckooed another 3 times, giggled, cuckooed twice more, and then tripped over the cat”.
That is too funny. Trucker I love your stories.
I have a bird clock that daughter gave me that makes inappropriate avian noises when hands land on bird. They seem to not be synced to type of bird. We used to refer to them as “six o’clock bird”.
Bless her, my mom for 20 years would give a tremendous start and same exact same thing, “What’s THAT noise?” Every hour she heard it for 20 years. Clock is lying by my elbow ticking.
And here’s a set (playlists) of parody songs by a group of anesthesiologists, The Laryngospasms:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kP2OuZ_vI_s&list=PLBqYUMN-N_DdKfj0VrwTxw65N4SdITWXq
My favorite was “The Ring of Fire.”
Finally, here’s a story that illustrates the differences between the sexes:
Husband For Sale
A store that sells new husbands opened in New York City, where a woman may go to choose a husband. At the entrance is a sign explaining how the store operates:
You may visit this store ONLY ONCE! There are six floors and the value of the products increase as the shopper ascends the flights. The shopper may choose any item from a particular floor, or may choose to go up to the next floor, but you cannot go back down except to exit the building!
So, a woman goes to the Husband Store to find a husband. On the first floor the sign on the door reads:
Floor 1 – These men Have Jobs.
She is intrigued, but continues to the second floor, where the sign reads:
Floor 2 – These men Have Jobs and Love Kids.
‘That’s nice,’ she thinks, ‘but I want more.’ so she continues upward. The third floor sign reads:
Floor 3 – These men Have Jobs, Love Kids, and are Extremely Good Looking.
‘Wow,’ she thinks, but feels compelled to keep going. She goes to the fourth floor and the sign reads:
Floor 4 – These men Have Jobs, Love Kids, are Drop-dead Good Looking and help with Housework.
‘Oh, mercy me!’ she exclaims, ‘I can hardly stand it!’ Still, she goes to the fifth floor and the sign reads:
Floor 5 – These men Have Jobs, Love Kids, are Drop-dead Gorgeous, Help with Housework, and Have a Strong Romantic Streak.
She is so tempted to stay, but she goes to the sixth floor, where the sign reads:
Floor 6 – You are visitor 31,456,012 to this floor. There are no men on this floor. This floor exists solely as proof that women are impossible to please. Thank you for shopping at the Husband Store.
PLEASE NOTE:
To avoid gender bias charges, the store’s owner opened a New Wives store just across the street.
The first floor has wives that love sex.
The second floor has wives that love sex, have money and like beer.
The third, fourth, fifth and sixth floors have never been visited!!!!
Here’s the article Jackie was talking about: http://www.cracked.com/article_19021_5-amazing-things-invented-by-donald-duck-seriously.html
The first couple of stories illustrated were written and drawn by Don Rosa, the rest by Carl Barks. Neither created the character of Donald Duck, but did create many other characters within the Disney comic universe. Barks went from working as a story man for the Donald Duck cartoons to writing and drawing the adventures of Donald and his family. He retired in 1966.
Don Rosa took up writing and drawing the Duck family after retiring from his family’s stone business in Kentucky. He was active in this from the 1980’s till a couple of years ago. Most of the long-time fans, like me, think he was the best overall artist on these comics since Barks.
I loved the ping pong ball to raise yacht story and discovering an unknown element but they were all fascinating especially the movie directors acknowledging they stole from the Ducks.
My favorite line was the writer saying adding dogs to any movie Dicaprio was in would improve it. I tolerated him in Catch Me if You Can but I am no fan.
Jackie, Barks himself was a fan of the Prince Valiant comic. So when he did those adventure stories for Donald and Uncle Scrooge he would often use those large panels with panoramic views. Like the one in the story above about the idol. Look at the one that runs about 3 panels deep by one wide with the rock bouncing off pillars and the cave walls.
Or this scene from “Lost in the Andes”: http://images.tcj.com/2012/01/Barks_Andes_PlainAwful-650×471.jpg
Debbe, this comic artist was also a chicken farmer in between art jobs. Some of his funniest comics involve chickens, eggs or both together.
Help me out, maybe I am still out of it.
TV is all a flutter about some guy named Oscar, who is giving away golden gods in his likeness.
Appears Tuesday is going to be a great weather day, forecasts are for a Super Tuesday.
I have heard of Ziki, but now there is talk of March Madness invading our offices.
I am still thinking of putting a chicken house out in yard. I could put chickens in the really good dog fence to keep them safe. Inot addition to cats we have raccoons, possoms, skunks and large rats in neighborhood, loose dogs and snakes. Am I just going to feed them live meals?
Anonymous Jackie:
As usual, I’m late to the party.
How about that? I may not be part of the 1%, but I’m part of the 2%.
I’m green eyed, born May 14.
My wife swears that, for once, an astrological personality type is spot on, especially in regard to my being stubborn.
I’ll deny that to the day I pass.
See, I suspected this, that a lot of us shared the green eyes. And yes, my astrological reading is more spot on than any psychological analysis ever done including some that cost a ton to do. A person who didn’t have benefit of hours and hours of testing and interviews did the astrology one, right too.
Jackie, get some guinea fowl along with them. Or as I always heard it around here, a guinea hen. They’ve been used as living alarms for years. From the description here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helmeted_guineafowl
They also seem to be good as garden pest control, eating ticks as well as many other pests.
I just read the funnies in the Sunday Bemidji Pioneer. Arlo and Janis are heading out, and he has her jacket to help her on with it [gentlemen used to do that]. Then they play a finger-matching game that I know exists but know nothing else about. He wins, and in the final panel . . .. Whoops; I hadn’t psyched out panel 2. They noticed there that their tops were the same color. The game was to decide who had to change. He won, she changed to a red top. JJ is subtle, or emb is naïve.
[Nice the way this program changes that i to an ï. It also wanted to change that i to an I.] Fun.
Arlo and Janis have obviously done that before. I wonder why they don’t play the high-speed low-drag version of Rock-Paper-Scissors.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iapcKVn7DdY
I also wonder whether, when Arlo wins, he gets to watch Janis change.
No report this morning from The Best Little Hen House in Indiana™, I noted. I hope that just means Debbe took a day off.
EMB:
Check out rock, paper, scissors, lizard, Spock for some real fun.
Thanks.
Reading about urban backyard chickens by chicken whisperer. I am getting nesting impulses.
I know, keep my day job.
Dear oh dear oh dear. Mark sent me the link to great chickens and ducks and turkeys and all sorts of wonderful birds. I am in trouble.