The Born Loser by Art and Chip Sansom for November 26, 2023

You have to admire his stick-to-it-tiveness!

Or not, I’m not the boss of you.

I’m with you Brutus, Man to man! Let’s stand as one! Until we cave!

Nothing… I can do that!

Sunday morning 9 o’ clock here and I have just loaded the first round of washing machine and changed three bulbs.

nothin’ from nothin’ leaves nothin’…

I did nothing yesterday but I didn’t finish so I’ll start with yesterday’s doing nothing before I can get to not much in the afternoon.

How rough can a 3-day work week be?

Amen Brutus. I like days like that too. Recharge the batteries.

I have nothing to do and all day to do it and most of the time I do not finish in time.

Gladys doesn’t like to see our hero idle.

“Sometimes it takes me all day to get nothing done!”…now, that’s a great, quotable line! I’m stealing it. :)

My Sunday to-do is to save my comments here. When I get at least ten, I post one nasty/snarky/disgusting comment followed by my ten, so the naughty one falls off my list right away in case someone looks at my profile. Sadly, this week, I haven’t reached the threshold yet. I guess I’ll go do laundry and change some light bulbs.

Yeah ! That’s my man Brutus !

“And we love to work at nothing all day” BTO

What, Brutus, Sunday morning and no church planned? Tsk tsk, tsk. Evidently, when you have a day of rest, boy do you ever have a day of rest. Though I’ll bet you’ll have just enough time to work in some Sunday night football.

Brutus is right. Sometimes doing nothing takes all day.

there are a lot of us that that seem to have laundry to do on Sunday. And I get to shovel after it stops snowing this afternoon, first snowfall of the season. Other than that I’m just planning on watching the birds and squirrels at the feeders

same here, too bad nothing I want to do is more my motto. :}

Sundays are for church and rest. Back in the day in the 60’s and 70’s the only store that was open was the 7-11. Sundays were also for family and friends to enjoy a huge meal to have leftovers for the week. I remember it well.

When I was a kid I got up early—about 7 o’clock. Once my mother asked me why I got up so early. Before I could answer my said, “So he can have a longer day to do nothing”.

From “The Beverly Hillbillies”:

Granny, what do you think of Lafe Crick?

Why he is the laziest, no-account varmint that ever drawed a breath!

Go, Granny, go.

Why, the only hard work that he ever done was to turn over in bed.

He can get up in the morning with nothing to do, and by nightfall, it’s only half done.

That’s it, Granny, mean mouth him good.

His woman does all the work over at their place, and the only time she ever got him out in the fields, she had to sharpen the stump so he couldn’t sit down!

Blow the lid off, Granny. Let ’er fly.

The only nickel he ever earned was when his pa paid him two bits to stay away from the house.

Why, he would whitewash his own ma and rent her out to haunt houses.

Why, he’s so lazy, even his scarecrows have to sit in a chair.

You talk about a liar, Why, that Lafe Crick, he wouldn’t know the truth if he stepped on it barefooted!

Go, Granny.

He’s like a catfish… (sighs)… all mouth… no brains.

He’s got whiskers like a catfish.

Shifty-eyed… big feet.

I don’t want to talk about it… no more. (deep exhale)

That’s good, Granny, them last two wasn’t much anyway…

Sunday is most definitely the day for that. It coincidentally ties in with Football and other sports also. Emergencies are always the exceptions of course but I don’t see any fires that need to be put out. Though I do note a chill in the air around Gladys as evidenced by her formerly hot cup of coffee……

You go, Brutus! You’ve earned a day of nothing. And Gladys, listen carefully: nothing means nothing.

Brutus, just kick back in that recliner and get ready to watch Christmas movies on boob tube. 15 minutes later, snooze land.

Nothin’ from nothin’ leaves nothin’

You gotta have somethin’ if you wanna be with me

—Preston / Fisher

i know

Someone put on some Bachman Turner Overdrive for our boy here. He’s takin’ care of business.

Just like at the office!

Doesn’t sound any different than work, at least according to ‘old moneybags’.

I like how Brutus rationalizes his priorities

“And” Brutus continues “if I didn’t do enuf nothing today I’ll do some more nothing tomorrow after work”…

It may take an extra day or two to do nothing the right way.

A friend retired from our company, and when I asked what he does with his time, he replied: “I wake up in the morning with absolutely nothing that I have to do, and that end of the day I am only half done.” He meant that while there was nothing that he HAD to do, there was so much that he wanted to do, that he couldn’t do it all. A lesson in living the good retired life…. : )

i’m trying to picture spending a whole day doing nothing. nope, can’t see it… ☺

Like the song says, “I got nothin’ to do and all day to do it.”

It would be nice to see Gladys say that she will take the day off and do nothing also. They could hang around in their jammies with Wilberforce and Kewpie and just be. Kewpie can probably show them how to do nothing for many hours at a time.

It often takes me all day to do nothing as well.

My wife does not believe in a do nothing day. There is always some chore we should be doing!