Arlo and Janis by Jimmy Johnson for May 01, 2018

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    McColl34 Premium Member over 6 years ago

    I knew it! You’re one of those too!

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    Catfeet Premium Member over 6 years ago

    Arlo is a Wobbly…who knew?!

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    Da'Dad  over 6 years ago

    Today is May 1st, Feast Day of St. Joseph the Worker

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    Da'Dad  over 6 years ago

    Was already popular in Easter Europe before the Communists turned it into a “party” day…

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    Sisu60  over 6 years ago

    is it kibitzing with neighbors, or want to have a kibbutz with them?

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    dwane.scoty1  over 6 years ago

    Late ’60’s Radic-Lib Acid Flashback!

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    Màiri  over 6 years ago

    What I’d like to know is what that guy is “not the least bit surprised” about.

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    jarvisloop  over 6 years ago

    Nice nod to the history of May Day and Communism. In one of his blog posts several years ago, Jimmy mentioned that the original date for our Labor Day was to be May First but, because of the Soviet Union, the date was changed.

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    PoodleGroomer  over 6 years ago

    Stop supporting Big-Ag and Petro-Chem profiteering overlords. Resist foreign invasive species relocation madness. No watering unless it came from a rain barrel.

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    mjb515  over 6 years ago

    …and you will have nothing to wear but chains.

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    jarvisloop  over 6 years ago

    This is brief and interesting: https://www.bing.com/search?q=may+day+strike+of+1886&filters=IsConversation:“True” OsKey%3A%22OnThisDay0501%22+Id%3A%222%22+dw_answerstobesuppressed%3A%22taskpanepromotionanswer%22&form=OTDTB2

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    Olddog1  over 6 years ago

    Karl Marx’s birthday is Saturday. Might want to rerun this then.

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    Auntie Socialist  over 6 years ago

    Their flag is a green background with trowel and clippers.

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    Tyge  over 6 years ago

    Arlo has neighbors next door? A rare appearance indeed.

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    nosirrom  over 6 years ago

    I bet he’s just trying to get some free labor.

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    Pohka  over 6 years ago

    All animals are equal (some are more equal than others).

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    serial232  over 6 years ago

    May I point out that the men seem to be doing the hard manual labor, while at least one woman is shown sprinkling either fertilizer or bug repellant on a shrub. Therefore, when Arlo yells workers unite, I believe that he is being sarcastic about it. I could be wrong and maybe Mr. Johnson is a full blown Communist, but somehow I doubt it.

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    Tyge  over 6 years ago

    It used to be that Mayday brought on a lot of Commie bluster. Which proved to be all sham of course. Like their political system.Arlo is just using the memory to display his displeasure with spring gardening necessities. We all need to cry out in frustration sometimes.

    Apparently Arlo’s neighbor has previous experience with his eccentricities.

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    DDrazen  over 6 years ago

    The moment when you don’t know if he’s validating the neighbors’ conceptions or just screwing with them.

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    Scott S  over 6 years ago

    Wait, shouldn’t he be waving a small sledgehammer & a sickle?

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    geb2989  over 6 years ago

    Has anyone else noticed that this strip isn’t very funny anymore?

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    Màiri  over 6 years ago

    It’s amazing how many people in the former USSR, having experienced “Free-Market” Capitalism, would prefer to go back to Soviet Communism under Mikhail Sergeevich. I suppose they must have noticed how little real difference there is between the nominally-different predators.

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