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?””
Ok, mine is still doing it and must be a cyber virus?
Decided someone has put me on a list or registered me for a date rich older women who will support you and are lonely. I am not!
NOT! NOT FUNNY EITHER.
all the profiles are formatted identically and they seem to take for granted I will respond. Not! This is some twisted person’s idea of a joke and not funny.
Sounds like time to run your antivirus, jackie, for the A&J thing. When I click there it takes me to today’s GoComics strip. As for the other, almost sounds like those ads that follow you from site to site. Might be time to clean out your cookies.
I will get my latest minion to clean it for me. These men have different profiles and names and photos but format all identical.
Sort of scary actually.
Oh and sent to me not an ad and texts and phone calls to me which I refuse to answer.
The Dictionary.com Word of the Day is “bissextus”.
Even though that may sound like sexy text messages exchanged by bisexuals, it is actually “the extra day added to the Julian calendar every fourth year (except those evenly divisible by 400) to compensate for the approximately six hours a year by which the common year of 365 days falls short of the solar year.”
In other ways, today. So, Happy Bissextus.
Just so I won’t forget, tomorrow, 1 March, is St. David’s Day. He is the patron saint of Wales, and I know a professional Welshman who expects me to let everybody know. Supposedly, there are Welshmen named David Evans Thomas, or Evan Thomas Jones, about as Welsh as you can get. To my knowledge, St. D. is not responsible for all the good Welsh tunes in the UMC hymnal. Peace,
St. David is the patron saint of doves, as well as of Wales. One of the miracles credited to him was surviving eating poisoned bread fed to him by the monks of his own monastery, who were apparently more than a bit peeved by having to live the austere lives of monks. Showing, I suppose, that problems with disgruntled employees go back at least 1500 years.
Steve and GR6:
You’re correct. 1900 did not have a leap day.
A few weeks ago (months?), Janis called herself the “crazy walking woman.”
I was reminded of that this evening when I hear an interview on NPR this evening with Sarah Marquis, authoress of “Wild by Nature.”
The interview focused upon her walk from Siberia to Australia.
Evidently, she has walked about 27,000 miles.
Here’s the link to the NPR piece: http://onpoint.wbur.org/2016/02/29/sarah-marquis-hiking-wild-australia
heard an interview.
heard an interview.
not hear.
Learn to proofread, Rick.
I just posted this question/request for assistance on Facebook, but I suspect there are some in this Village with more expertise than my friends there.
I’ve been having issues lately and don’t know if it’s me, FB, my tablet, or Windows 10 or some combination. These things happen on the website, not the app, and not all the time (but far too often) and not necessarily all at the same time. A couple of examples:
After I’ve scrolled down a ways and clicked (tapped) to see comments, I’m kicked back up to the top; when I scroll back down, the comments are there.
If I try to make a comment (especially if I try to reply to a comment), the cursor jumps to in front of the first letter I type; after I work around that and get to the end of what I’m saying and hit Enter, either nothing happens or my comment posts with no spaces between the words.
I’m tired of having to create my comments in Word and then cut and paste. Any suggestions?
I am acquainted with a couple who will celebrate their 75th WA tomorrow; the next day, a different acquaintance turns 102. That’s a nice parlay. Blessings be upon all 3 of them.
Joe Patroni has left the hanger. Actor George Kennedy, who seemed to be in every disaster movie made in the ’70s, died yesterday at age 91. RIP, Cool Hand Luke’s buddy.
For any who don’t know, Joe Patroni was the airline maintenance supervisor who freed an airliner from the mud and moved it at the last minute from where it was blocking the only runway that could be used by the bomb-damaged airliner carrying the injured pregnant stewardess returning to the airport to land in a blizzard. Now that’s what I call a disaster movie.
Ruth Anne, no help here, I’m afraid. Still using 8.1
Mark – I held off switching until recently when Flash would no longer update properly; there were also some 8.1 updates that would not go through. Still getting used to 10 but haven’t encountered any real problems, except with FB. I suspect it’s the combination thing, although my sister-in-law has had similar issues on her older model iPad.
Even I saw that movie. Of course I saw so many movie plane disaster movies it is a miracle I ever flew again. When Helen Hayes or actors got on real planes with us we all groaned and went OH NO!
WOULD NOT SEE SNAKES ON A PLANE.
Ghost:
Spell checker got you. Airplanes can be found in a hangar and there are many types of hangers in an airplane. George Kennedy was a great character actor.
Jackie:
Sorry, but there are some very crazy and mean people out there, thankfully not in the Village.
Nope, John II, just a good old fashion typo. (Gautier MS, I assume.)
Sorry, Jackie, wish I could offer some helpful suggestions, but I use a pretty well locked-down PC with layered security for all my InterWebNet activity, and other than a pesky browser highjacker I encountered a few years ago, and cured pretty quickly, I’ve had very little in the way of problems.
I hope your problems are just due to a random Trojan and not the result of being targeted due to having a rather high-profile InterWebNet presence. There’s something to be said for anonymity.
Yes, the Village is full of the people you wish lived in a real village where we had town hall meetings, walked on sidewalks past porches they sat out on and had block parties where we brought food to share and grill, sat in park and listened to music, walked our cats and shopped at the farmer’s market with.
I’d even go to church and stay for the ladies lunches. But not geflitte fish.
Debbe 😉 Did I ever tell you about the time someone described a stained-glass window craftsman to me as looking “just like Willie Nelson, except uglier”?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2wWeLRdQVGA
Jackie
How about Lutefisk?
That G.K movie was made at Mpls/Sp airport – that year there was no snow -yet-
so they hat to make it (It was cold enough)
emb – in the picture of the wind blown Tortie (looks like our Lily) there was a
“Tiny House”in the background.
part II
Mythbusters proved you could raise a boat with ping pong balls – and it took nearly
2 scows worth – they used a water injection system.
Met a couple of people with one blue eye & one green – both (people) were female.
(I suppose their eyeballs were also) Is there a bias for gender?
part III
Last Sat. on Ask This Old House Tommy & Kevin built a backyard chicken house & enclosure.
with cover so there was no attack from above. What they did not show (or do?)
was put chicken wire one foot out horizontally on ground so critters would not dig under
the vertical wire.
B’ugs = big hugs
“They” don’t like long posts.