Big Top by Rob Harrell for September 16, 2010

Good EARLY Morning, Tribe Eggs, made to order or egg beaters Sausage, pepper bacon, Canadian bacon and/or ham (pork or turkey) Hamburgers, fish burgers, hotdogs & Rib-eye steaks made to order off the Bar-B-Q. Pan Cakes Breakfast Burritos Huevos Rancheros Huevos con Chorizo EMET’s Steak n shake Slaw dog pan fried potatoes, hash browns Kemah Boardwak Brick Oven Pizzas grits, oatmeal & Honey Nut Cheerios! Bush’s baked beans toast (white bread or wheat), bagels & cream cheese, jams & jellies assorted kolaches fresh fruit Pop Tarts Ladywolf’s Special Chicken fried steak with mashed potatoes and gravy, or the classic steak and eggs meal with a biscuit Blues Brothers special: Jake’s 4 Fried Chickens and a coke and Elwood’s dry white toast pirate coffee Doc Toon’s WORLD FAMOUS NUCLEAR COFFEE Johanan’s Starbright’s Divine CocoMocha assorted juices & teas assorted softdrinks, especially PEPSI! Selected ice creams & ice cream floats! KFC Root beer, PEPSI & other floats Anything and everything Chocolate for LuvH8! and other chocoholics Kitty’s Breakfast platter Bloody Mary or Caesar selected premium beers

Eat Hearty, Tribe

Geez, Grog! How long have you been cooking? Must have taken hours to prepare! I’ll have pirate coffee, steak (medium rare), and hash browns! Thanks!

You’re welcome, JFri. When I can’t sleep I like to eat.

Enjoy.

Good morning, Grog…..glad to see you’ve made it back from BC in time to cook our sumptuous meal(s)

Good Morning, MontanaLady

What’s your pleasure?

I’ll just have the Blues Brother’s special: Jake’s 4 fried chickens. Hold the coke. I’m on a diet!

Alright, I’ll have some chocolate sauce on that…..

Hello Grog, JFri & MontanaLady

Coming right up, MontanaLady

Good Morning, LuvH8

I have Kitty’s breakfast waiting for you. What’s your pleasure? - As if I didn’t know!

Grog, thank you for fixing Kitty’s breakfast platter. May I have a chocolate milkshake, please?

Enjoy, LuvH8

Thank you Grog. There will be chocolate cake and white milk in the after sleep morning?

If that’s what you want.

Mornin’ Montana Lady, LuvH8, JFri

Great Menu, GROG! I’ll have a ribeye medium rare with scrambled eggs, a humus pop tart, and DWFNCoffee.

Thanks.

Good mornin’ Frankr.

Good Morning, Frankr

Enjoy.

See y’all on the flip side of night time.

Thankew Mr. Grog. Good night to all.

Good Night, Frankr, Grog and MontanaLady

(MontanaLady, you said your Tribe Good Night Gracie at Birdbrains. But, I won’t tell anyone it can be a secret.)

At the Usual Time: two bagels with creme cheese and lox, OJ, and CocoMocha. I may tackle a hamburger after that.

GROG and LUVH8 Sure, the feline gets fed before me. I might as well stay home and wait for HER to feed those cats premium name brand cat food before I get store brand corn flakes and reconstituted dry skim milk. I would appreciate some scrambled eggs, Canadian bacon and a cup or four of DOC’S NUC COFFEE, please.

Morning TRIBE! I have nothing to do today. Experience shows that the electric, plumbing or roof is about to do something major. Pray for me that it is only a small appliance.

No members of the cat family were harmed in today’s post, dagnabit!

I’ll have the chocolate breakfast w/ some OJ. HIII ALLL! I’m here.

Good Morning Tribe!

Excellent breakfast menu, Grog!

I’ll have the Huevos con Chorizo, hash browns & Doc Toon’s WORLD FAMOUS NUCLEAR COFFEE please.

Hi, Jarlyddie!

Pop

This religion thing is a bit over the (Big) top. But it’s a beautiful scam Dusty’s running.

Good morning Terry, jarlyddie, Lew, tribeandall and GROG!

Need about a gallon of Doc’s World Famous. Been here 2 hours and only had a half a regular coffee. Bizzy bizzy. Oh remember that “i don’t have internet” yesterday? There was too big a gap between the network wire’s plug and socket… It’s not easy being me….. toon tour

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Good Morning, Johanan, Lewreader (LOL), jarlyddie & ♠Lonewolf♠

Johanan, yes I’m going to have to save today’s strip so that I can make avatar of it for future use.

Pip

Hey Terry did you get any rain? I had three drops on my windshield this morning. And the sun’s out now in Great Lakes. Lawn’s getting pretty brown.

piff

Runs with Beer!!!

Good Morning Grog, RwB, MontanaLady, Lewreader, Johanan, Frankr LuvH8 & JFri!

RwB, no rain yet, but it is overcast here right now. I don’t think we are getting as much as they thought. If any at all even!

Time for me to get a leg up on the day! Catch y’all later.

Have a great day everyone!

P&L

Have a good one, ♠Lonewolf♠

Good morning to who have been on and soon will or not been seen in a while: ♠Lonewolf♠, Little sister , MontanaLady, Frankr, , hopeandjoy2, Lewreader & RwB, Grog, Doctor Toon, Dry, Rmom, Bestest Big Sister LuvH8, The Sojourner, Love&PieceJoy ,yyyguy, Carmy, A Little Sharper U, DDFenceEMET, jarlyddie, MisngNOLA

Newspaper report from yesterday there where 6 underdeveloped tornado’s that took place. Haysville schools are closed due to a lot of roof damage.

Now for today a whole different story glorious weather and cool.

Thanks to you all for your patients since there is not to many of us from KS area. I know everyone saw what was posted and some may never experience what we had.

Good Morning, Kab

To a much lesser degree, I experienced a day similar to that when I was living in Dallas where the area sirens went off. Scary, but fortunately nothing touched down and I had no damage. I didn’t - and still don’t have a basement to take cover in.

All we have is a lower level no protection. Strange storm watchers from TV stations actually showed one of tornado near Haysville. Haysville is south of us 25 min HWY driving.

Grog that disconnect scanner I talked about. Turns out the DIO computer repair guy has to wait to get with his boss who is in FL for a seminar the dept sent him to for Monday to find out why now it’s not going by sections. Three is bar code disconnect scanner suppose to recoginze and doesn’t. I told them it does scan not separate.

For this today’s strip glad I don’t live that live follow after a cult that dusty aiming for.

Morning All!

Morning, Digital Frog

Good morning, tribe! I’ve still got to make my comic rounds, get breakfast, and walk around outside to see if there’s any damage here from the hail storm. I thought some people might be interested in watching this video from KSN (Wichita’s NBC affliliate). Sounds like Wichita might have set a new record for the largest hailstone last night.

Hi & Bye, Doctor Toon

Hi Rmom

That hailstone was INCREDIBLE!!

Thanks for sharing. Glad everyone is okay.

Must’ve been corn fed, huh…

Hi, Grog! Glad you enjoyed the video, MontanaLady! ROFLPIMP - RwB!

Montana Lady: I’ve never been to Montana but I wouldn’t expect it to be so tropical like in your avatar pic

Hi, Frankr!

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@ Lewreader What’s your opinion of cargo pants? For mine please see “Flo & firends”

Good afternoon all. I’ll be kind of missing for the next few days as I start a new job down in Washington DC. When I get them all straightened out I’ll be able to resume my normal morning routine and join y’all for breakfast and commentary. In the meantime stay healthy and vote out the incumbents if you have a chance to. :-) We did it here with Arlen “not proven” Specter. You can do it tooo. If these people are so smart, why do they have so many problems to fix that they created?

Hi, NOLA! What’s your new job?

Psst! We’d probably enjoy chatting about politics, but the BT rules frown on that here.

≡≡ P O P ! ≡≡ ♪☼ Hello TRIBE! ☼♪

Hello to all those here!

I’ll have a hamburger, hat dog and Bush’s baked beans.

Hi, Sojo! Who says it is boring in KS?

Hello to all Grog eggbeaters, pancakes, Canadian bacon, and maybe some oatmeal (with a few raisins??) Please? I will drink hot tea with some cream for my brunch this day.

Thank you and see you later!

Hi, hope&joy! Did you miss out on the storms last night? The ones that hit here went too far south for you to get hit, but didn’t know if the band that went through Topeka might have left some rain for you or not.

Hi Rmom - Thought your power must of been out as to why you wern’t on right after the storm. Hope all is fine therre. Thanks for the link.

See you later Hopeandjoy2.

Not much actual damage, not to common for this late in the year though. A few miles west of me in Goddard hail was at least softball size or larger. It went through the roofs of the houses, some houses had 6 or more holes in there roofs. Good thing it wasn’t thick but was spread out a lot. I tried to get a picture I saw on TV of hail next to a CD disk, the same size, but couldn’t find it. Here are a couple of pictures though you might like.

Sojo - Those are some BIG hailstones! I walked around & looked for damage outside this morning. Not enough to make an insurance claim, thankfully.

Good Afternoon, Frankr, hopeandjoy & Sojourner

Hi Grog.

Unlike ♠Lonewolf♠, this is my lunch break.

Grog - LOL! You mean you actually take lunch during lunch time?

♠Lonewolf♠’s lunch won’t be for at 2 hours or more!

Rmom, I try, but sometimes I have to eat earlier (due to meetings) - not later.

Grog - Seems like if they’re going to schedule meetings during lunch, they ought to provide the food, too.

Rmom, most of the people here have lunch around 11:30. Since I have mine at 12:30, I often interfere with their schedules.

Grog - How early do you start work? My hubby has to be at work at 6am, but their lunch isn’t until 12. (They used to start at 7am, but didn’t change lunch when they changed the start time.) Of course, the hourlies get a morning break, and he doesn’t. But if he wants to take longer than 30 minutes, he’s not in trouble. But then, they work a 12 hour shift, so this way lunch is still in the middle of their day.

Rmom, Our hourly people are shift workers and start at 5 and do 12 hour shifts. Staff can get in anywhere from 5AM to 9 AM. I’m usually in around 6:30AM.

Grog - If they start at 5, then that makes sense. I was surprised your place is also doing 12 hour shifts.

Okay… I have done my good bad deed for the day. Now….

Want Chocolate Cake!

Hi LuvH8 - What good bad deed is that?

There is a discussion at BC about the recent magical disappearing comments. It seems comments that include greeting to other commentors are mysteriously vanishing!

UPDATE FOR BIRDBRAINS & NORMALS

Fellow Birdbrain Allan V is having a birthday today.

We are not sharing the chocolate cake with him. It is hard enough trying to keep MontanaLady from eating it all. He can have some of the cheescake though.

Hi, Luv!

Hi Rmom, It sure was a relief to see you Sister Kab & Sojo were okay last night. Each time one of you didn’t post for more than 15 minutes I started worrying.

I can understand, Luv. Even if my laptop could run on battery, the router doesn’t. At least you knew I was in the basement, so I was safe. There are some neat videos on the newspaper’s website. I hope this link works, you may have to select which video you want to watch.

Well, I certainly don’t expect you guys to endanger yourselves just to reassure us you are okay. It was just a relief when I checked in and saw you back.

Which reminds me Pepsi products are advertising MADE WITH REAL SUGAR I burst out laughing in the store when I saw it.

Rmom - Thanks for that link also. I’ve put that home page on my favorites bar as I no longer take the paper. (And newspapers wonder why their subscriptions are down when they put their papers on-line for free?)

Luv - I’ve thought about buying Mt. Dew made with real sugar (as opposed to high fructose corn syrup), but I’ve only seen it in cans. I like the little bottles with screw on lids. I’m klutzy enough that it helps to prevent accidents. (And I like to drink while I’m at my computer.)

Rmom - Don’t drink and operate a computer at the same time! It’s like drinking and drivi … ummm … forget that - wromg kind of drink

Sojo - I’ve noticed some newspapers (like Winfield’s) have some free on-line, but if you want to read in-depth, they’ve got an e-subscription available. I think that would work best for newspapers to stay financially afloat, so you would think the Eagle-Beagle would adopt a similar policy. I did have to register to get their full content, but it is free, so I don’t know how that really helps them. I get almost all my news either through internet or radio. We do get a few publications, but those are more for our sons’ benefit.

Sojo - I wondered if anyone was going to think that. I’ve seen posts on the internet that made me think “that person is either drunk or high”. Nope, all I drink at home is pop or water. (Away from home I might order lemonade, Hi-C or a milkshake.)

Looks like there are some t-storms in OK, and maybe southern KS. Hopefully, nothing severe since I don’t see any watches posted.

Good afternoon everyone!

Yep, it tis my lunch break! Late compared to other people’s lunch times but right on time compared to my recent ones! LOL

Oh, yeah, by the way…………………………….

Hello fellow hijackers! :^)

Hi ♠Lonewolf♠ - At least your consistent!

Hi, Sojo. I knew there was a silver lining there somewhere!

BBS

P&L

See you later ♠Lonewolf♠.

Hey! It Wasn’t Me!!!!

LuvH8 - What didn’t you do now?

Good Afternoon, Tribe and All!

Can I still get a (late) breakfast? Eggs, over easy White toast, with butter and jelly Canadian Bacon Doc Toon’s WORLD FAMOUS NUCLEAR COFFEE

Does anyone remember Get Smart’s Chicken stuffed with Chocolate Covered Cherries?

“And hold the cherries!” “I don’t want to hold the cherries; my hands will get gooey. You hold the cherries if you want them held!”

Winky may need to be relieved of his “soul burdens”, but I’m willing to experience a few moments of peril (as with Sir Galahad, especially from about 6:00 and on…)

It seems like not so long ago that manufacturers were going to “high fructose corn syrup” (that is, thick sugar water, made from corn) to avoid higher cost as well as having to put “sugar” so high on their ingredient lists. Now they are getting back to “sugar”.

We have had much nicer weather than in Kansas. I’m glad you all down there are safe!

We did recently get a shipment of shingles for our roof. They are currently sitting on the sidewalk, and seem to work just fine: the pallet is being kept nicely dry…

bmonk - LOL! I’m glad your pallet is dry. :) We need a new roof put on here, but with a 10/12 pitch, I haven’t noticed any roof leaks. We had a little leakage in the basement last evening, but thankfully, only on the cement floor. The siding project still has a ways to go before it will be done. My hubby had planned on taking vacation next week to work on it, but then they sent him to Iowa this week, so who knows when he’ll be able to get away?

Hi bmonk - Hope your day is going good.

Thanks, Sojo–yes it is, except for being far too short.

Hi Sojo, Bmonk & Rmom

I did not pretend to own the site and tell others what to do. I don’t do that, do I?

How tall are you? (giggles at extremely lame joke)

LuvH8 - No, you didn’t!

Luv - I think you expressed yourself quite well. Not rude, but still standing up and not backing down. I think some people enjoy being grumpy, and work hard to make everyone around them that way too.

Hello Rmom, Bmonk LuvH8 & Sojo!

Done with the work part of the day. Now I get ready for Thursday pool league playoffs.

Some people are like that, I know sometimes when I am cranky and around people I have a hard time not spreading it. That’s why I usually don’t say much if I am cranky.

So, you guys think I should make the new name more or less permanent?

Hello Lonewolf!!!!

There that is easy to skip over.

Wolfie - Have fun!

I’m tall enough so that my feet reach the ground.

I’ve noticed that most little people–for the first several years–tend to be too short, as their feet are often about 3-4 feet off the ground…

♠Lonewolf♠ - Enjoy your league playoffs tonight!

Luv - I know that was the way my mom handled things, when she was mad. She’d be quiet, rather than saying something she’d regret later. I’m not sure if I do, but as I get older, I know I’m getting quieter, especially if I’m not in a good mood.

♠Lonewolf♠, hi, and have a really nice evening!

Lonewolf, watch what you do with that stick thingy!

Thanks everyone!

I was over at BC reading the “comments” and had to add just one more little one.

And I don’t know about some over there, but I don’t consider this a wasteland at all!

Just sayin’!

hi all! im very very excited today b/c i got to see my new laptop! My school gives us laptops for the year, takes them back for the summer, and gives them back after summer. It’s a macbook pro, and loaded up with all the good software, even the ones that cost money! and it’s all FREE! (at least to me, its part of the tution fee for my parents, i guess.)

unfortunately, i got to see it today for “laptop orientation,” which they do the first year u get them, but they aren’t given out till next friday, so we don’t get to see them again till 8 days from now! :(

jarlyddie - What type of school do you go to?

Hi jarlyddie - Congrats! I hope you enjoy it during the year! Sounds great.

Hi Jarlyddie. WooHoo with the laptop! It’ll help with the school work a lot.

Hi Jarlyddie, that sounds like a good thing for school. Are your text books actually software on the laptops?

Well, I am outta here till about turnover.

Have a good evening all!

P&L.

Hi, Doc! I can’t seem to be on when you are lately. :^)

Bye ♠Lonewolf♠.

Nap Time! Have A Good Evening Everyone!

Bye LuvH8 - Have a good nap!

Bye, Wolfie & Luv! bmonk - I just took a look at that video link you posted on page 2. LOL!

Just read that record-breaking hail stone was 7.75 inches in diameter. It takes pretty big hail to punch holes in roofs, but that’s what west Wichita got last evening. Even the airport got holes in the concourse roof. 6 tornadoes touched down in KS last evening - 5 in Sedgwick county, 2 in Cowley, & 1 in Greenwood. Thankfully, I haven’t heard of any people being killed or even injured.

Hi Rmom, Sojo, Kab, Grog, LUVH8,Bmonk, MontanaLady, Runswb, Frank, Johanan, Lonewolf, Doc toon, and All present

this will be short…Rmom and Kab We just had lots of thunder, wind gusts, lightning, rain over several hours but as stated last night, no watches or warnings…very strange. Glad you survived. Lots of times storms go north or south of us but other times they come right down hwy 50 so I am glad we live a few miles south in town….have spent some nights in downstairs shelter though.

*Ha* if that was “short” I would hate to see LONG!

Back still later on.

Hi Everyone

Good, this comic is still a “Free Country”. Thanks LuvH8 for standing up to that bully!

All this fun stuff is why I keep coming back! I might not take the time to comment all the time, but I sure enjoy hearing from everyone!!

Hi, hope&joy! Glad you didn’t have anything severe!

Hi Hopeandjoy2 - Glad nothing was severe and you got some rain.

Hi MontanaLady - Good to hear from you.

Hi, HopeandJoy, Sojo, Rmom, LuvH8, LoneWolf, bmonk, frankr, **jarlyddie, doc, and everyone else in the world!

Have a great evening. Movie night for us.

Thanks, MontanaLady! We enjoy hearing from you, too!

Bye MontanaLady - Watch a good move. :-)

Have a good night Doctor Toon.

Good night, Doc!

Sojo - I’m looking at all the storm pictures on the news websites from last night’s storm. Wow!

Rmom - I looked at some of those earlier. A couple of good pictures of the hail had people’s pictures in them and I didn’t want to show them. It wasn’t anything close to the hail storm in the 90’s. That was a really bad one.

Time for my zzzzzz’s. Have a good turnover!

♪☼ P&L ☼♪ ≡≡ POOF! ≡≡

Good night, Sojo!

Hello all well I glad The Sojourner mentioned the hail storm of the 90’s. We lived way from Wichita at that time and that storm followed Hwy 400 all the way to Wichtia heading east then made a right turn to OK. Then that went into a major tornado.

We say that big hail my car took a big hit. News seems to forget I’m not sure what real year it was but there where bigger hail stones that hit town of Cheney. 1950’s maybe I wasn’t there. I had to ask hubby as he was just going to big K back then.

I forgot I talked to this lady where I work at and a this guy where one lives in Haysville and out side. The one in Haysville said tornado went over her house she didn’t think she had damage.

Guess I will look in on BC and see what is going on RmomHaven’t taken much of a tour recently and I will be involved with a funeral preparations tomorrow…sad.

Nite JarliddieI think we may be the subject of one of your school papers, huh. Should be interesting.

Jarliddie if you see this your forniate to receive a lap top I don’t believe the public schools here have for students. Cost to much in budgets. I totally missed out on BC as I have to cut back on some strips. We did see that big hail. The Admin Assist lives in Goddard I asked her about her car she had hers in garage.

hopeandjoy2 I missed out you said funeral. I remember one of your family members about the tumor. I missed out on comments. I’m sorry for you that will be hard.

Kab back from reading BC. My daughterinlaw is fine, her tumor was benign. My niece with ovarian cancer died yesterday and I haven’t said anything about that until now, at the end of the day. She was like a younger sister to me and she is free from pain. I believe life is eternal.

hopeandjoy2 If I pressured you into saying I’m sorry. My prayers go with you and your niece’s family. For ones who believe yes. My dad for instant believed, I have never forgotten, his last prayer more then 11 years ago with family gathered around for Thanksgiving mom wanted to have his side of family together, turned out to be last one. One part of prayer he gave was thanking our Lord for the time he had left and he wanted to enjoy each day. I believed at that time he new his days where numbered, rest of us where in shock. When my dad went to hospital he knew he would go to heaven and he did. Thank you though for sharing this way the people of BT can share and care for you help make days a little less painfull.

MisngNOLA I with Rmom curious what type of job you got also in DC and I envy you. Somehow me asking makes me feel bad with what your going through, hopeandjoy2

Through my daughter seeing family Dr. for allergies I’m trying this over counter for allergies to see if can keep from going to Dr. keep my sinus passage from getting infection this is definatly working.

I too read BC which I don’t to much. BBS you did okay on your statement. I guess that’s why BT is popular. I think there is one more which gains more comments that the rules for changing words is on. Well for Saturday if I can get up early enough our last helping day at fair. Will be very busy.

HopeandJoy

Hmm… your screen name is very appropriate. You have brought both to us since you have joined us. I am sorry to hear about your loss of your niece. Luv and Prayers for your family and friends. Continued positive thoughts for your daughter’s recovery.

(I know technically she is a daughter-in-law, but it sounds like in your heart she is you daughter.)

Thank you everyone for your support at B.C., I am flattered. Everyone on B.C. was so supportive of each other, it made my heart happy. I just felt like lending my support too.