Big Top by Rob Harrell for July 24, 2010

Good Morning, Tribeandall!

Welcome one and all To the Big Top Diner. Please come in, sit anywhere you want, relax and browse the comics, engage in pleasant conversation. All while enjoying a nice virtual meal. We are service with a smile. :-)

Today’s Breakfast Menu Under The Big Top:

TRIBE FAVORITES

♠Lonewolf’s♠ Huevos Rancheros Grog’s scrambled eggs or eggs over easy with sausage or bacon. Lewreaders special pheasant omelet (with diced tomatoes, red and green peppers, onions, cheddarcheese, and Frank’s hot sausewhich is optional) Digital Frog cold pizza (all toppings are avaliable) The Sojourner chocolate pancake pie (Small slices avaliable) Kab Buch’s Delightful Burger Meal with fries on the side and a tall beverage (so good it would put fast food restaurants to shame) …………………………………………………………………………………………….. Top Sirloin Steak (Cooked any way you want it) Barbecue Ribs (Trust me you will need a napkin) Fish N’ Chips meal Bacon & Eggs (eggs made the way you want them) Sausage, biscuit and gravy Pancakes, or Belgium Waffles (covered in rich maple Syrup, with toast on the side) Shrimp and Fries Combo Meal Oven Fresh Pizza (Any topping) Chicken, steak, or beef burritos covered in Enchilada sauce and cheese (Comes with a side of refried beans and rice) Fried potatoes with onion and bell peppers in it. (Good stuff) Poptarts, toaster Strudels, granola bars,cereal bars (For those on the go) Winchell’s warm and fresh donuts Salad bar is open

Menu 2

Desserts: (courtesy of Ladyhawk, bmonk, and my Big Sister) Ice cream delights - (Add ons include candy sprinkles and nuts) Carmel Chocolate Hot Fudge Butterscotch Strawberry (Whipped Cream Butterbrickle ice cream) Cherry sorbet Rocky Road Fried Ice cream Special - Big Sister’s Nuclear Coffee Fudge Explosion Delight. (Once you taste it you’ll keep coming back for more. I guarantee it) Gelato Courtesy of Chis Alan & Johanan Rakkav Chocolate Mousse Cake and an assortment of cookies Cotton candy, caramel candy apples, salt water Taffy, butterscotch, and other chocolate candies and m&m’s

Menu 3

Beverage: Regular or Doc’s World Famous Nuclear Coffee Starbright’s Divine CocoMocha courtesy of Johanan Rakkav & Chris Alan (Ask for any specials by request) milk, chocolate milk Asst. fruit juices and teas fountain drinks like Pepsi and other sodas Floats, or milkshakes Premium or imported beer Bloody mary, margarita, martini and other cocktails. Big Sister’s Berry Delightful breakfast smoothies Selection of energy drinks avaliable

I like Stucco now. He’s cool. :-)

Good morning TRIBE & Big Sister.

Good Morning, Ladywolf.

Quite a menu once again!

Can I please have the Huevos Rancheros, Sausage, Fried potatoes, Johanan’s CocoMocha and a thermos of Doc’s World Famous Nuclear Coffee?

Yes you may ♠Lonewolf♠. Here you go.

Thank you, Ladywolf.

You’re welcome.

See you all tomorrow.

Good night TRIBE & Big Sister.

Good Night, Ladywolf.

Good Night Little Sister

Hello Lonewolf????

LADYWOLF Magoo, you’ve done it again. Menu 1–Pizza, hope it’s cold. Menu 2–Everything, please and use a big scoop Menu 3–DOC’S NUC COFFEE* seeing that he still hasn’t completed the pipeline to my house. He using union labor?

Still no AC and the usually unreliable sources are predicting record breaking heat. I got busted for loitering at the supermarket. I’m going to try DMV today. No one would suspect me there for spending the day.

Morning TRIBE! Opinions expressed during a heat wave with no AC are the opinions of a fool who doesn’t understand what SHE WHO MUST BE OBEYED is going to do to make my life miserable for the rest of the summer.

Good Morning Tribe Hmmm, lotsa breakfast left over here. Everything looks absolutely delicious, Ladywolf Steak, medium well, fried taters, diet Dr. Pepper and for dessert a large bowl of butterscotch ice cream with hot fudge and caramel topping.

Wow, just looking at the feast on my desk is making me sleepy. I think I just may eat and snoozle.

Good morning everyone. I’m off for fun. Zoo then new hospital grand opening hope no patient any time soon.

Mornin’ Doc if you’re still there. I’m bouncing back and forth between my jewelry and here and eventually the kitchen. Dr Who is on BBC right now, all this season’s episodes running right up to the season finale at 9pm tonight.

I was glancing over some of your postings yesterday. How can you be full time (35+ hrs/week) if you’re doing good to get 20-25? Something smells like Denmark here.

Already hot here, heat index warnings are out. Keep cool, Doc

Union? Oh yeah, they’re trying to unionize Wal-Mart, or they did unionize it, or whatever. Our Long Beach office is unionized, it’s like a robot society, no one answers the phone between 10 & 10:15am and between 3 & 3:15pm. My company is worldwide and we have a worldwide computer system. Every person in my ‘position’ can help my customers and update by bookings whether they be in my office, New York, Manchester UK or Hong Kong. However, if you make the tinest change or put in a memo indicating you spoke with a customer and gave updated vessel information the Union claims we have ‘stolen’ their work and are entitled to charge the company 8 hours for a 1-2 minute phone call while their office was closed (they open 11:30am EDT), God forbid we provide good customer service to their customers, they deserve to wait until they finish their coffee and open up their switchboard. I shudder to think what will happen should there be an earthquake which closes the office for days on end (Like Houston after IKE)

Boy, have I rattled on. BUt in my industry it seems the Union with their rules hinder rather than enhance good customer service.

Back to the jewelry…….

That is true about unions being a touchy issue. My issue is the one I deal with the most seems to impede the very point of the job, customer service.

In the news this week was the port of Montreal lockout of the port labor. They have the sweetest deal, paid a full week whether they work 40 hours or 1 hour. We had to divert three ships to the port of Halifax , but fortunately only one was discharging when an interim deal was struck (basically the Port will let them in and they’re both gonna seriously talk). We reloaded the ship which was discharging because that was cheaper than trying to rail/truck it to Montreal. The Port of Montreal is the only port that has such a sweet deal, and it’s just not economically viable in this day and age.

(and to those who take joy in pouncing on little deviations, this is a simple statement of what is in the news, not my opinion, which would probably irritate at least 50% of the group)

on the bright side, hot dogs and chili are cooking on the stove, and then I will have a nice nap.

I think I kind of feel sorry for Stucco, and I don’t like clowns at all!

Morning Doc, Lew, and Quaby*.

HEY LEW check out today’s Close To Home!

Dry, a lot of people don’t like clowns, I don’t know why though. I love clowns.

≡≡ P O P ! ≡≡ ♪☼ Hello TRIBE! ☼♪

Lots of drive-by tribe members. It’s hot here, even in the cool dimness of my room. Taffy will eat vienna sausage (quick meal of desperation) but turned her nose up at all beef wieners. Go figure.

Siesta time. P&L

Bye Quaby

Hi, TRIBE!!

I have a new respect for Stucco.

However, that doesn’t mean I don’t still want to drop an anvil on him and see if he will “squish”.

Hello bmonk - Dropping an anvil on him just seems logical to do to a clown! :-)

Hello everyone and good afternoon

Hello Ladywolf

What a wonderful weekend. I think that I’ll go out and enjoy it.

Ladywolf - Have fun!

Pop! Still making my comic rounds between working on chores here. Lewreader has a couple comments directed to him at C&H he may want to answer. Poof!

bamp!

Cool here too–especially since it got cool and windy enough for natural air conditioning to be effective.

bamf!

I’m back….too hot to do much traipsing about.

Though about Lonewolf on my journey, I drive past the local pool parlor ( The Shady Lady) about half the time I go out. There were signs advertising leagues needing amateurs. I enjoy the occasional pool game. Back in college I used to play pool a lot down in the Commons which was between Kreuger and Dunn Halls at Texas A&M. While I wasn’t anywhere near excellent I was good enough to prove a challenge to at least 1/3 of the gang.

So I’m off to do chores and make jewelry while watching Dr Who. Checking in later.

P&L

Hello Doctor Toon - After hearing the link I guess it must be a real song.

Doc - I have too many stored away in my brain I don’t want there! :-)

Bye Doctor Toon

For when you get back, Doc Toon

You are totally evil. I have spent the last 45 minutes watching Dr Who videos, dalek songs, regenerations, etc. I’m going to watch the show now. Have a good evening.

P&L

Good evening everyone or who ever is here. Had a busy morning late start and very hot. The three of us sweat pour off, hubby and daughter more then me. Went to county zoo was disappointed animals where sleeping as so hot. There are a couple places that where cooler for humans, then went to see brand new hospital that is done for a tour, told them I tried for receptionist for the ones that would hire, I told them someone who works within said they would only hire ones fresh out of college. This is a hospital and I’m not qualified for that. I think we walked all together more then 3 miles. We have severe thunderstorms some thunder but no rain yet. Channel I was going to watch cops on had baseball and I don’t care for that.

Since I might be last guess I better call it quits catch up on other comics then read, shower and get ready for bed. Very quite here.

Kab Buch - Sorry you didn’t have a better time at the zoo. It did get up to 100° today.

I can’t resist…commercial’s on and I popped on, and I get to change the page. Whoa

Will wonders never cease Quaby!

Have a good turnover!

♪☼ P&L ☼♪ ≡≡ POOF! ≡≡

Sojourner we all felt that 100 degree tempature. The main benifit all the walking. Though we cooled down at the new hospital. Since you live in W Wichita you know which one I refer to. One more open house for Sunday. Staff all greated everyone and there is a guy using a gulf cart to help people to cars. I guess I had better call it a night. After we got home I was so tired I dozed on couch just hope I can sleep tonight otherwise I will be reading.

Also I didn’t want hubby to get over hot since he is on a year of healing from stint, also he sweats alot.

Quaby some comercials are pretty cool. I like the one with school and children clapping about using cleninx not spreading germs. I must be tired not thinking right.

@ Kab Buch

Is clenix the same as kleenex? I don’t watch T.V.

Hi Kab and Doc

Hi Quaby

Very slow day. Dr Who was great. Working on a new technique for a necklace. It is the hardest I’ve done so far,

And so I bid you good night. See you tomorrow sometime.

P&L

Good evening, Tribe!

I think clowns are fine.

Hello Everyone!

HI, LuvH8..

I am back from pool. Team won!

Congratulations!!!

Okay, comments from the phone is really really STRANGE!!!!

Who else is here?

I think it is just us 2. But you never know who may be lurking.