Big Top by Rob Harrell for April 25, 2009

He must be reading ‘Dick Tracy’…

Good morning all! Coffee is started. Now I hope that *DF* shows up with those lime buns today. I’ve got a hankerin’ for ‘em.

Tabby Have a wonderful time, sweetie, and we want pics, please.

Joy: Tabby wrote you a msg. yesterday on page three.

Carmy: Hope you got some rest, and that you’re feeling good today.

Good morning all, not much to say here outside of have a great day and enjoy the weather.

Oh, yeah, jdoc rub it in! I live in Oregon…..Indian word for rains every day!!!!

One week ago Pinecliffe, Colorado got 52” of snow. That is spring time in colorado.

Good morning and Happy Weekend!!

Tabby, have fun at the prom - everyone else, have fun like you are at a prom.

I just started my round of reading comics, and now Marg’s comment makes sense.

Before I started the comics I decided to update my list of possible comics. SOTU wasn’t on the list, so I only went there when someone mentioned it. I still don’t think I can handle that comment section.

I hope they’re not talking about Mary Worth. I’m hooked on that one. Morning Everyone, Thanks for the coffee,Marg. I’m ready for a second cup. I am feeling okay, my energy is just not perking up as fast as I’d like it to. I was on some antibiotics and I think that may have drained me more than ususal.

JFrisch, yep good old Pacific Northwest rain. It’s been beautiful here, sunny for at least a week. Now, my wife’s brother is visiting and we had planned a picnic and it’s cloudy. He’s here for two days and it’s not supposed to clear until the day after he leaves. You just can’t reliably plan outdoor activities for this time of year.

doctortoon, how was your night out?

tabby have fun tonight (but not too much :) )! Hope your braces are doing much better!!

Thanks Doc. I’m glad you’re getting some Spring weather. My brother was in the Army and stationed by Colorado Springs for years. I visited him a couple of times. Colorado is a very beautiful place.

Drystyha, I have the perfect spot for you to set up your tent. It’s a nice level spot on a hillside overlooking the lake.

Sounds like farleftside on SOTU!

Thanks for the info Joy. I’ll ask my oncologist about that. Have a nice walk. The weather report says a high of 82, sun/clouds mix with gusty winds for our area.

Good morning all hope you are all having a wonderful morning today. i got up and went sit out side for about an hour and read. i should get moving wash my hair so it can dry before tonight. (takes hours ugh) but i dont feel like moving. it is a nice day over here also.

AAAARRRRRR doc, did ye say waffles? Out of the way me hearties!! Care ta wash it down with a bottle o’ rum, doc?

Marg thanks for telling Joy for me. greatly appreiacated. no need to worry, ill put pics up. i may have to change them everyday but somehow you will all see them all. lol ill figure it out when the time comes. going make my rounds be back soon.

Carmy hope you get to feeling better. sending good thoughts your way and lot and lots and lots of hugs.

Carmy get to feeling better! Please??? I brought rum raisin cake that some crusty old geezer gave me on the way to the party. Who was that guy???? Hmmmmmmmmm.

sheeeeeesh! weather report coming up, film at eleven

getting back to’ the big top’, my guess is she’s reading the largely outdated, 1978ish ‘acadamia waltz’–love berke breathed’s humor, but …..

so guys. guess what. you know how a few days back i said i was taking the day off saturday and not watching Ana? well guess who is here. if you gussed Ana you are right. this is crazy. i had a nap planed and a hair washing and a hair trim plus leaving in about 3 hours. now what? lord help me. pray i get all the stuff i need to do done. like a shower not going to happen till she leaves. Barney is on (her favorite thing to watch) and im going see about working on all this junk. see you all later. thats for the waffels. ive been hungry for some. where is Dry this morning?

okay i changed the pic. i was tired of it. also bc you all changed yours back. so i was an odd ball again.

Sorry I’m late guys, but SINCE EVERYBODY JUMPED SHIP, I decided to find another avatar. Wanted to use Satchel but his image is .bmp so it wouldn’t except it. Anybody got any ideas on where I can get some compatable pics?

cleokaya sounds like a great spot for my tent!

Say, do you and your wife subscribe to the magazine “Backyard Living”? Great magazine, but I’m already behind reading 2 issues, one is still in the wrapper! :-(

I’ll have some waffles, hold the rum. **Commic, you have can have the rum. Tabby and JFri, Thanks, I’m sure I will be feeling better after a nice peaceful weekend.

carmy hope you feel good today! And yes, I love Mary Worth also, and Rex Morgan!

tabby have fun tonight!

Joy you’ll have to tell me how you increased your memory, computer memory that is :-), in a little more detail. BB brain here, you know!

doc cute kittie! one of your own?

JFri 86 today,man! Eat your heart out! LOL

I see Tabby was the last to jump ship! :-)

Pookid, here’s some french toast just for you. Enjoy! Tabby, Can’t someone else help with Ana? Dry, 86? that’s a bit high for you isn’t it?

Rob I love this strip! Sorry that you stopped it! :-( It’s a nice little gem!

carmy for this time of year, 86 is high, but not in the summer! Summer is my favorite time of year!

carmy her mother could but dosent. go figure. she has called me mom about 4 times today. i love this little think as my own, but today is supposed to be my day. i am giving her till 12. i will be taking her home and doing my stuff. till then on here. and listing to barney.

Morning all, sorry I’m late, I made an extra gooey batch of lime buns - dig in!

doc the babies? Arethey Titten’s kitties?

*Dry* welcome to the party i was getting worried then remembered it was sat. and thought you may be sleeping in or fighting for the computer with your son. lol :D

Tabby, Okay then, 12:00. Ana’s mom needs to get it together. You got a prom to get ready for.

So what is everybody hearing about this Swine Flu business?

so i have a sweet tooth going on. french tost, strawberries with sugar, and icecream would be great.

Dry - you can open a .bmp in MSPaint (or most other graphic editors) and save as .gif or .jpg, that should work.

tabby I got up at 10: will probably be fighting him for the computer later, also had to change my avatar BECAUSE EVERYBODY BAILED!! :-D

Don’t let anyone interfere with your day! Pardon me for being blunt, but Ana’s mom should be thinking of you, not herself.

dry that is what i think. i wanted to be her godmother but she told me i was not “mature enough” so i lost that fight. yet i have her all the time.

Ana just left we brought our sef an ice cream. so its just me the dog and my yummy ice cream.

okay guys and gals. i will talk to you latter. i have to go hurry and start getting ready. ice cream wasnt what i wanted but couldnt get a mississippi mud pie bc of my braces and the nuts would have hurt. talk to you all hopefuly some more today bc if not that will be a lot of catching up to do. if not tonight then tomorrow after chruch lunch and grannys. bye for now. i will get the pics up some how. :D

Sorry, JFri, we got snow here earlier in the week, and now it is upper 70’s. I figured the rest of the country was pleasant too. Tabby have fun at your prom.

thanks *df* I’ll try that after I get the computer back from my son! You know, share and share alilke!

JFri 1:20 pm and the temp is 81 degrees! :-p

12:41 here it must eb about 80 but you cant tell bc there is a breeze. not cold but connfy. nice day to be out side.

The sun went away, now there are just big dark gray clouds. Thanks JFri, you jinked my weather. :P

Try cloudy, 45F, and forecast for wet snow over next 3 days :(

*DF* ick. good night Doc.

gee Joy you can earn yourself some extra monry by becoming a computer “geek”! :-)

Just put a deposit down for on campus hosuing this fall for my youngest :-( August will be here before I know it, sigh!

DF - the lime buns are awesome. I kept thinking it said “lima beans” As for the old comics, sometimes in this crazy mixed up world it is still good to know that Dagwood still eats sandwiches, Beetle Baily still sleeps, - well you get the picture. It’s been in the 80’s here. I was at a kindergarden soccer game. Cute.

donkeymom I’ll bet that soccor game was cute! Child, grandchild, niece, nephew if I may ask?

Just got here, and I bet that all the food is gone. :’-( It was all dogs all day. The 13 year old dog had agility class this morning, and my therapy dog and I had to sit at the therapy dog group’s booth at a dog expo this afternoon. The wind is blowing up to 55 m.p.h. this afternoon, so the expo had to close early.

DigiF: There is one lime bun left, yummy! Have you got the recipe?

Tabby: I agree with Dry. Ana’s mother should be taking care of her herself. Is she at least paying you? Otherwise it sounds to me like she is taking advantage of your sweet nature. Hope prom is wonderful.

Dry: I agree with what DF says. I open a bmp picture in Paint, and save it as a jpeg.

Dry: She’s just a cute little 6 yr. old neighbor that I’ve known all her life. Scored a goal but she wasn’t really into it. Too hot I guess.

donkeymom If I may ask, where are you located, approximately? It was 86 here today, lovin’ it!

*DF* same ? to you. 45 degrees! You must be in Alaska!

marg I’m gonna try that paint, and THANKS A LOT for taking the last lime bun! Oh, Marg, think I told you before, maybe not, maybe it was somebody else (who knows :-D! ) My friend raises and shows Shelties. She showed one at Westminster last year, but he didn’t win. What dogs do you have?

Hey, guess who just got up from a nice long nap, ME! Dratz, I missed Joy. Marg, you took the words out of my mouth in regards to Tabby. I hope she has a really nice time at her prom.

Carmy: I’m glad you got to take a long nap. :-)

Dry: The 13 year old is a sheltie/ brittany cross. The therapy dog is black lab, border collie, and probably some great dane thrown in there, too. The third dog is a retired grey hound, who sleeps all day.

Ta-ta for now. Have tons of email to read, and it’s almost dinner time.

marg Yea, I guess it is about 5Pm outyour way! Have a great evening! Sounds like you have some pretty sweet dogs!

Only 19 comments on SOTU as of 7:05 PM CSDT. I guess most of ‘em have religious type obligations on the weekend to account for diminished aggressive enthusiasms.

Forgot I had this one, put it up instead! Will switch to Satchel later if I can remember how the HECK I did this one!

*df* your way didn’t work on my ‘puter! I have no “other graphic” or “editors” on my paint. :-(

good one Rad you should go over there and post that comment for all those “whatevers”.

Just noticed my Charlie & Snoopy doesn’t quite fill up the frame, but hey, AT LEAST IT’S NOT A DOT! LOL!

Hope you are having a GREAT time tabby!

carmy GLAD you got a good rest, God love ‘ya!

Rad, I went and checked SOTU, amazingly the “ear” only had one post. I thought of an Oliphant comic I saw one time. It had altar boys running and priests chasing them. The caption said it was the “Running of the Altar Boys”. It was sick, but very funny.

Dry, Thanks. I do love your avatar. Snoopy rules!

Hello, Dry(can I call you that?). If you are working in Paint: 1.Pic plus white area IS the whole pic. Gray area in Paint-window “does not exist”, but you only see gray if the whole Pic is less than the size of your monitor screen’s available Paint-window. 2.So the white area around Charlie and snoop can be “drag and drop”-ed to appropriate size. Hover cursor over paint window corner (bottom-right) til you see the two-directional arrow, left-click and hold, drag and drop Paint-window to appropriate size and save file. 3.Then, of course the file has to be saved or converted from bmp to a JPG, PNG,or GIF (that’s the only formats Gocomics accepts for avatars). This is NOFEARPup, BTW.

CommradeSnifferdoodle Yes you can call me Dry, everybody else does! Pray tell, who are you? NEVER saw your name before, and I have been here for quite awhile! Me thinks you are one of our ole buddies in disguise!

Just went back and read your last sentence! Like your new moniker, thought you were JFrI trying to pull a fast one!

I will try your suggestions! Thanks!

Hey I don’t think you were ever over here before, were you?

Marg & crew steaks are on the grill! Rum & Coke time and the Jolly Roger is *up*! Had to go to a funeral today (mom of some friends). Hate ‘em….throw me in a hole & party on when it’s my time!

Hi, Doc(you’ve met me - NoFEARPUP). Dry I’ve only read the ‘toon a couple of times - been following the tail-gate party put up by JFri-Tabby-Dry-Doc-Etc. ‘Toon is good…I like the irrascible poodle.

Hey doc!! “I’m Up! What’d I miss?” LOL

Hopefuly Tabby is on her way to the prom and having a good time, carmy had a real nice nap, marg has a Sh** load of e-mails to answer, JFri has gone missing! commic and Joy must be on the ship again, and I am enjoying 75 degree temps at 9:05 PM in central PA!

Filled out my youngest son’s dorm registration for this fall, :-(!!

Other than that, I guess you didn’t miss much!

Comrade, Welcome to the Big Top! Doc, Working tonight? I feel like such a doofus. I’ve been having allergy-like problems. I figured it was a chemo reaction. Today, I finally took a benadryl. WOW, that helped alot. Dry, I got hives from eating a Stouffers lasagna. That’s why I have some benadryl. I can eat lasagana that I make with no problems.

JFri, Yea! The party’s on. Please make my steak well done and hold the rum. I told my family to just cremate me and scatter the ashes in the ocean or whatever. I think that’s the least expensive. Dry, will your son be close by?

Carmy, as you wish, although I like my steak medium rare. Dry like the avatar!

Thing is NOFEAR, Comrad shows up all over SOTU where he’s never been seen before …

BTW I saw Joy going aboard commic’s ship. When will she ever learn?

well JFrI you had a good excuse! I hate funerals, like Lou Grant said on a Mary Tyler Moore episode, paraphrasing here, because I don’t remember the exact line, “put my hat on my head and set me out by the garbage can” or something to that effect!

carmy he will be about 1 1/2 hours away, better than my older son who is 3 1/2 hours away! Being a parent is great, there’s nothing you wouldn’t do for your child, no greater love, but when they leave, nobody warns you about that part! But I guess our parents went thru the same thing with us! It’s so TRUE what they say, “What goes around, comes around”! Not just in hateful ways, but in everyday life. Do you know what I’m saying, becasue I can’t put into words what I want to say.

JFRi thanks for the comment on the avatar! I was trying to put up Satchel from “Get Fuzzy” but I couldn’t do it and then came across Charlie Brown & Snoopy, that I’ve had saved FOREVER! The picture really appealed to me, something about a man or woman and their dog! An looking out over the water. I love the water!

Dry, I understand what you’re saying. My oldest is a junior so she will be graduating in 2010. My husband is already having a hard time with the thought of her going away to college. I don’t think it will hit me until she’s actually gone.

Rad please don’t tell me we have a troller here! Not again!

Dry every parent except mine go through empty nest syndrome….they held the door open & booted me out!

I’m serving cocktails. Family is over. You’re all family so join us. I just made my wife a new drink. Vodka, chambord, lemonade infused with rosemary. We’re having smoked salmon served with smoked salmon and vodka.

mmmm steak! Not to worry, I think that comrad/NOFEAR is ok. I think I saw him here before. Nevertheless, NOFEAR, I have vouched for you, so you’d best behave. Dry and carmy good luck with kids moving away and such, I wouldn’t know too much about it. I am the kid that moved out. All you can do now is trust that you raised them right and they will use what you taught them to be safe and successful.

Oh JFri I can’t believe thay booted you out!

Doc I won’t be alone, but it will be wierd, my hubby and me alone again.

johnny, you are very wise. What you said is exactly right on. Your parents definitely raised you right. What are you studying in college?

Thank you carmy, it comes and goes. I am studying biology right now en route to becoming a Physician’s Assistant.

carmy make the best of everyday with your oldest! The time for her to leave will come sooner than you think! It was hard for me when my oldest left, but now that my youngest is ready to spread his wings, well, you know what I’m saying! It will be even harder! I picture myself flooding the campus with my tears!!LOL, but not really! And I’m very sentimental to begin with! I have seen sad movies over and over and I still cry, so what does that tell you?

johnny, that sounds like a good plan. I’m alot older than you, but believe me, it still comes and goes for me too.

Dry I went to college to be a wildlife biologist & the DFW (Dept. Of Fish & Wildlife) said I was too white & too male to get a job with them! But I don’t think the parents were too sad to see me go….I was a wild child!

cleokaya I’ll take some of that new drink you mixed for your wife! I could use one! (or two, or three, LOL!) Gotta get used to RL real soon, so set me up with a big one! Then I’ll be a good girl!

Did you see my post about the magazine “Backyard Living”?

Dry, LOL. You are so sweet. I don’t think I’m as sensitive as I used to be. My husband will be the one crying up a river. JFri, LOL for you too. I think they changed the locks when I left home. So Joy is off with commic again. Hmph, she will have some splaining to do tomorrow.

JFri you were a wild child? Doesn’t surprise me LOL but I hope, if your parents are still with us, that you get along well!

we must all be typing at the same time, because my posts show up in odd places!

I always said I didn’t understand how people could spend so much time on the internet until I “met” you people!!

Dry lost my dad in ‘92 to a heart attack at age 69 & lost my mom in ‘06 after 14 years of Alzheimer’s. My brother was a no show all 14 years & mom’s funeral so we are done now. But life goes on & it is good. My motto: if you can’t have fun don’t do it!

Dry, your cocktail is awaiting you. I know what you mean when you mention spending time on the internet. I really look forward to getting up in the morning and planting my fanny down in front of the computer and reading the comments. The comics, I love, but I look forward to everybody’s take on them that I look forward to most. I tell my friends about this and they give me kind of condescending little chuckle when I go on about how much fun I’m having and how I’ve met such nice people. But I don’t care. I’m hear for the duration.

Sorry for your losses JFri, but that is a good motto. I also thought that these were a waste of time until I found these little (no so little anymore) parties.

Dry, I googled Backyard Living, because I wasn’t familiar with it. I am retired, but used to work as a travel photographer and writer. I used to be a field editor for a magazine that Reiman Publications used to publish, called Country Discoveries. I also had a lot of pictures published in Country.

JFri, that is so sad about your Mom and Dad and especially your brother. You have a great attitude and motto.

Doc, have a good evening, see you tomorrow.

Cleo & jdoc I was the same way, then I saw Joy & Dry having fun and crashed their party and it just went from there! jdoc thanks for the comments!

Thanks, Carmy. About one more rum & Coke and I’ll start showing all my scars!

Have fun at work Doc!

Wonder how prom is going for Tabby?

I was just wondering about Tabby too. I hope she’s having fun.

JFri I’ve had more than enough sh* happen in my life! One was TOTALLy unexpected and threw me against the wall, which I won’t go into, and will never mention again! Just know that, he*, I don’t know, we all have our trials, but somehow, we get thru them if we have enough faith! I keep praying for a miracle in my life, which will probably never happen, but through praying, I’m coming closer to accepting what is to be and even though I don’t like the outcome, I am beginning to accept it and deal with it! I know that sounds like ^piss ass^ advice. The serenity prayer isn’t just for alcoholics, it’s for all of us going thru a difficult time. I’m sorry for your pain, but even though we don’t “know” each other, I think we have a community of people here who care about each other! Hang in there, my friend! Your comments make my day! All you people make my day!

johnnydoc wait til you’re a parent! Especially if you have a daughter! :-p

cleo I’m familiar with both those magazines, but haven’t read them in a few years. Raimen (sp?) publications have some lovely magazines, even tho’ at times they get repetitive. You said you googled Backyard Living. What did you think?

It is 1:05 Am> I haven’t been up this late in years! Well at least a few months! (giggle) I am going to go now! As I said before…… this is getting addictive, but if it weren’t for the people here, it would be a whole lot less addictive! Good night all you great people out there! Sweet Dreams!

Dry trust me, I am a practicing Catholic. If I wasn’t I would have checked out a long time ago. As a teenager I lost 10 friends to very stupid car accidents and blamed myself, became a total introvert. Took a few years to wake up & shake it off but I did! That’s when I developed my motto in life!