Arlo and Janis by Jimmy Johnson for January 10, 2019

http://www.openculture.com/2015/03/the-story-of-lorem-ipsum.html

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lorem_ipsum

Just make up your own text. Maybe the actual contents will be added tomorrow.

Sample comic, faux Latin text to illustrate where the text is supposed to go?

I understand perfectly. Arlo isn’t really listening. Janis’ words are just filling in aural space as far as he is concerned. Lots of husband reach that stage.

Of course, I haven’t. I concentrate on and absorb every word my wife says. Really, dear, I do.

If this helps https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lorem_ipsum

It’s all Latin to me.

I understand it. It’s called "Greeking. It’s from the lost world of physical typesetting wherein random seeming “Greek” words would be used to fill in page layouts for evaluation when the final text content was not yet available.

From Microsoft: "The phrase “Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet consectetuer” appears in Microsoft Word online Help. This phrase has the appearance of an intelligent Latin idiom. Actually, it is nonsense. Although the phrase is nonsense, it does have a long history. The phrase has been used for several centuries by typographers to show the most distinctive features of their fonts. It is used because the letters involved and the letter spacing in those combinations reveal, at their best, the weight, design, and other important features of the typeface."

Your welcome.

ohhh… thanks from Rome!

“O feely me boney belly, dominus vobiscum, billy sell all his dominoes….”

I do. It’s gibberish used to fill space on print samples.

My nephew is a Latin teacher :) He told me that it’s nonsense used to fill pages while they are setting them up.

 Ut wisi enim aminim veniam quis nostrud exerci tation ullam Ret iusto odio nissim qui blandit praesent luptatum zril delenit augue duis dolore. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectuer adipiscing elit, sed diam nmy nibismod. Tincidunt ut laoreet dolore magna quam erat volutpat.  Ut wisi enim ad minim veniam quis exercitation corper suscipit lobortis. Of course. We all understand every word she said.

Hmm. It’s Greek to me.

Illegitimi non carborundum.

I just wanted to read the comics and drink my coffee, but NO. Here I am doing research at 6:50am. good one.

It’s the music, not the words. Just hum along and nod.

etaoin shrdlu

From the Three Stooges meet Hercules: It may be Latin, but it’s Greek to me.

This early in the AM – Just a simple comic plz.

The power of Google!:

“Although the phrase is nonsense, it does have a long history. The phrase has been used for several centuries by typographers to show the most distinctive features of their fonts. It is used because the letters involved and the letter spacing in those combinations reveal, at their best, the weight, design, and other important features of the typeface.

“A 1994 issue of “Before & After” magazine traces “Lorem ipsum …” to a jumbled Latin version of a passage from de Finibus Bonorum et Malorum, a treatise on the theory of ethics written by Cicero in 45 B.C. The passage “Lorem ipsum …” is taken from text that reads, “Neque porro quisquam est qui dolorem ipsum quia dolor sit amet, consectetur, adipisci velit …,” which translates as, “There is no one who loves pain itself, who seeks after it and wants to have it, simply because it is pain…”

“During the 1500s, a printer adapted Cicero’s text to develop a page of type samples. Since then, the Latin-like text has been the printing industry’s standard for fake, or dummy, text. Before electronic publishing, graphic designers had to mock up layouts by drawing in squiggled lines to indicate text. The advent of self-adhesive sheets preprinted with “Lorem ipsum” gave a more realistic way to indicate where text would go on a page."

I think others may be right in saying the text represents that Arlo doesn’t really listen, but it may also suggest that Jimmy is at a loss for real dialog this morning!

and anyway it seems she said to the effect: There is no one who loves pain itself, who seeks after it and wants to have it, simply because it is pain.

My wife likes to talk to the floor, in another room, and get upset when I don’t understand. Of course, I have to go to wherever she is and ask her to repeat herself, she won’t come to me.

Klaatu barada nikto

The joke is the words are “funny text”. When graphic designers put together brochures and such, but don’t have the proper text yet, they drop in Latin “funny text” to show what it will look like when finished. Here it’s automatically “funny”.

This comic used to be entertaining. What’s happen?

Semper ubi sub ubi. Always good advice.

The much-used Lorem Ipsum text is made of snippets extracted from a Cicero quote and according to Wikipedia it means ""Nor again is there anyone who loves or pursues or desires to obtain pain of itself, because it is pain, but occasionally circumstances occur in which toil and pain can procure him some great pleasure." Small wonder Arlo’s mind is wandering off!

Jimmy has been updating his web site. This is the default text that Wordpress displays. That’s probably why he did this comic.

So a lazy 4 panel set up that can be used in a rush to throw a joke into the dialogue balloons?

Arlo warned her not to watch that one TV cable channel with Benny Hinn on it.

It’s Latin to me!

From 1040 AD to Johannes Gutenberg, everyone should understand this!

Just claim spousal deafness you’re off the hook

As Alfred E. Newman once said, “Quid me anxious sum.”

http://www.openculture.com/2015/03/the-story-of-lorem-ipsum.html

Females have the innate ability to make a short story long. Which is why we never ask “how did your day go”.

Should read “Dolorem” for the first word which is “pain”. From Cicero and is from a commentary about why no one except a few appreciate pain. Today the phrase is typographer’s gibberish used to show off a font’s appearance. I recall the gibberish was in WordPerfect advertisments to show what it’s typsetting looked like back when they were in Orem, Utah (1980’s).

I don’t know about y’all but it’s all Greek to me!!!!

O si bili, si ergo.Forti bus es en ero.Nobili, demis truxSewats enem?Cowsen dux.

Either testing to see if the spouse gets it (unlikely due to the last frame) or testing us to see if we get the joke of a dummy text used for laying out text. https://loremipsum.io/

Molon Labe

Google translate doesn’t even understand it.

I have a different take. Jimmy has a penchant (talent?) for presenting strips that make it to the CIDU (Comics I Don’t Understand) web site. The double “gag” is that, while no one is expected to understand the gibberish text, Jimmy gets a CIDU by and while making it overt in the last panel.

Something like that. Actually, I get it. I think… ;o)

Well, yeah, nobody’s gonna understand that. They haven’t taught latin in public schools for over fifty years. They’d rather waste the taxpayer’s dollars on things like new new math and mission and vision statements, rather than, say, actually teaching the kids anything.

Speaking as a professional copy editor, I got a BIG kick out of this one.

Arlo has the “I’m listening dear” stare down pat.

My wife talks to me all the time like that.

Latin?

Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum viditur.

Even gibberish.

Hoopa popla washtonae.

“Minutus cantorum, minutus balorum, minutus carboratum descendum pantorum”.

Nor is there anyone who loves or pursues or desires to obtain pain of itself, because it is pain, but occasionally circumstances occur in which toil and pain can procure him some great pleasure. (by Cicero)

Isn’t this the space filler text you see in fake newspapers on TV and movies?

Ut enim ad minim veniam, quis nostrud exercitation ullamco laboris nisi ut aliquip ex ea commodo consequat.

Sometimes finding someone that has escaped learning common knowledge is funny in itself. Someone was leaving for a long drive back home after New Year’s holiday and their engine didn’t sound right. I stopped them and we checked the oil, which was low. We got some oil and he said: “What do I do with this?”

Samuel L Jackson ipsum dolor (not safe for work)

https://slipsum.com/

Should reverse the roles in tomorrow’s strip, with Arlo in an attitude of mansplaining while Janis is staring at her phone.

Frequently called Placeholder Text.

I put up a comment explaining Greeking but it seems to have disappeared.

All the graphic designers in the audience will understand.

I got it.

Or as so beautifully put in Johnny Dangerously: Post meridian. Ante meridian. Uncle meridian. All of the little meridians.

Thanks for reminding me that I am a dinosaur! This is what we called Greeking in the commercial art business…long before computers it was rubbed down to indicate where copy was to be inserted! I just found a ton of in an old supply cabinet…and it’s still good after 30 years!

I understood. Just filling space. HAHAHA!!

In my home last night. How did Jimmy get it in today’s paper so fast?!

If you can’t understand nonsense, why come here?

Unless you enjoy nonsense…..

Never mind.

I’m having difficulty with this myself: I thought at first a recipe, but it discusses “vitality, the time of labor and in pain, but some important things to do….” some a of the words when taken as passages do not properly translate to English. So is it a subtle jab at the readers acceptance that we cannot understand Janis’ comment?

9th and 10th grade Latin was way too long ago, but something about a lot of pain and work and time. Maybe the effort put into thinking up the strip for the day.

Oh, I get it. I did a lot of layouts in my short art school experience. What next? A crowd murmuring, “watermelon, cantaloupe”?

There is no one who loves pain for its own sake? Never met a masochist….

Google Translate translates the phrase in the second frame to “Over time you should work, and the way of obesity and vitality”

Google Translate isn’t much help. Something about denouncing pleasure and praising pain???

People who deal with page layout will recognize this as the beginning a standard dummy Latin text used to see how text will flow in a certain space.

Google Lorem Ipsum for a detailed explanation and translation.

wasn’t that the spell used in “Bed Nobs and Broomsticks”?

She needs to put something in his coffee-maybe a blue pill?

Well well, I learned something new today. Thank you Mr. Johnson.

Typesetters will understand

English translation here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lorem_ipsum

Got it! Filler.

yep…Arlo has that spaced out look in his eye so he isn’t listening….

IN one ear and out the other!

I dated Lorem once; she acted smart, but I could read between the lines…

I took 3 years of Latin in high school…(required course, plus another language of your choice)

“If you’ve ever used a layout program, you may be familiar with lorem ipsum, the block of dummy text traditionally used in page mock-ups to demonstrate how the finished product will look. The text looks vaguely Latin, and usually begins with the phrase “Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet…” before spinning off into any one of several variations."Alex Eichler in The Atlantic Technology section

I don’t understand half of this comic strip anymore anyway.

It is what typesetters used to “test print” a page in a novel. Read about it in the “Thursday Next” books…her 2 yr. old son spoke “Loren Ipsum….”…..lol!!!!!!!

Ono away Anicejay

We used to do fake Gregorian Chants to this in our graphic design office, on slow days.

I can say that about most of his comics.

Well this may be the most enjoyment I’ve gotten out of a comic in years! And a fine reason to have a subscription to gocomics. Thanks all!

Seems to be a testament to the power of coffee.

Sounds like something from law school to me.