Big Top by Rob Harrell for January 15, 2010

Breakfast:

Grits for Akenta Eggs Benedict on a chrome plate for Dry Vanilla Latte for Carmy Assorted Teas foe Marg Chocolate Pudding French toast Cinnamon rolls Bacon, sausage & ham 2” Ribeye steaks Assorted juices Pirate coffee Bloody Mary’s Cocoa Mocha Pancakes Krispy Kreme donuts

Off to bed for me….an early & LONG day tomorrow!

hi JFri & thanks for breakfast. i’ll have some french toast (and i’ll bring some extra maple syrup to put on it), 1 small cinnamon roll, and some Earl Grey tea. hellos also to Marg, Tabby, Dry & Carmy!

I’ll have my eggs benedict! Thank you, kind sir! And Pirate’s coffee, a Bloody Mary with LOTS OF HOT SAUCE AND HORSERADISH, and choclate pudding and a* KRISPY KREME ;-D* for dessert!

Good Morning JFri, Dry and Marg! Thanks for the vanilla latte, JFri. I’ll grab a cinnamon roll too. Maybe for 2nd breakfast, I’ll have a rib-eye, mmm. Goodnight JFri!

Good Morning yyyguy!

Good night you lovely people!

Goodnight, DRY!

I’ll have a rib eye, rare, and a cinnamon roll, and some Earl Grey tea.

JFRI, got any bread pudding?

Goodnight Dry! Hey Marg!

Goodnight, Carmy, my head is hitting the keyboard.

good night Tribe i checked back over the last 8 days looking for the comment Dry mentioned, but couldn’t find it. oh well. it’s time for bed, so it will have to go unread. sorry

Goodnight Marg and yyyguy!

Good morning and Happy Friday!! JFri thanks for breakfast.

JFRI I’ll ask the cook. It wouldn’t be cheating on my diet if I ate a Krispy Kream or two, seeing that there are no franchises in my state? Imported food has no calories.

Morning TRIBE! Enjoy January thaw.

Hi Lewreader I think if you have the nuclear coffee with the Krispy Kream it will help chase away the calories.

Good Morning Tribe!

Hello Akenta & Lewreader!

Good Luck at school Tabby & Johnny

Good Morning & Nice Breakfast JFri.

Of course I’ll have the Ribeye(med rare) & a Bloody Mary! Thank you, sir!

Good Morning Marg, Dry & Carmy!

Good morning all! Just one class this morning, so I should be back in an hour or so. Congrats Doc! I’m off!

Good Morning Doc

No more adding comics?

Hello Johnny–See you later.

I have a vehicle to go work on today. It has a dead battery and the battery is over 5 years old. Replace the bsttery, Check the charging system and make sure there are no shorts. Should be fairly simple. I hope!

Doc–Good luck with the newspaper and TV venues. Is there any thing $$wise to measure your collection up to? Even if there none as big as yours, at least it would give you an idea of it’s value.

Doc–I am heavy into Ebay and that may be the most lucrative way to go. Skim through the Ebay listings and see what comes up.

Doc–It’s interesting (and baffling) to go through the auctions and see what some people are willing to pay for things.

Doc–I sold my HO slot cars on there and one went for over $125.00 used while a new one went for $75.00(buy it now!) & didn’t sell. The new one was from the same era as my used one. Granted, my used one was in pristine condition, but still used. Go figure.

Doc–Depending on what it’s worth now compared to down the road, you may want to save it for your son. I am doing that with my father’s books and our Lionel collection among other things. This could give my kids something to fall back on after I’m out of here.

Doc–Right now I buy and sell Lionel on Ebay to both increase my collection value and to make some extra $$. It works and it keeps me busy as if I really need that right now. lol

I need to start getting ready to go work on that car. Talk to you later Doc.

Doc - I read BC and posted. I’ve got to head to Mom’s house, so I may not even get all my comic rounds done today.

Good Morning All - I’ll be out of town all next week, so don’t worry if you don’t see me around the toons.

hello all.

Math update

i have to go take a test tuesday at 3:30 to see what my math understanding is. how lucky for me. but til then i dont have to go to math so thats great. well im going to get to chat today bc i have no class till 10 and i am done my stuff, come 9:30 i have to leave and make a coffee run and get some tissue for the car. going catch up bbs

Good Morning All.

Dusty and Wink would look pretty weird with shaved heads.

How thoughtful to fix us breakfast on the eve of your busy day. Thanks JFri for the ribeye and cooked nicely with a crispy exterior and very rare in the center.

Doc i will still learn something today. i will also teach something today,

my breaks on my car are not grabing i had it down to the floor before it even slowed down so that means that i need to add break fluid again so i shall teach my friend how to do it. i will also find out how to not get my white shirt dirty. go figure the day i where white i have to get under the hood. thats all gonna happen b4 we leave school, then off to the bank, then food. fun fun fun. sigh. good think we are having coffee bug and smoothie *me* to hold us up till lunch time.

cleo good morning

Doc are you going to be okay getting rid of your comics? are you still going to keep the ones form BB? the tribe ones

Doc what has made you end your archive?

its almost time for me to go. :0( this slow computer makes my time here less fun

well guys ill have to say bye for now.

Cleo i want to know also.

(((((((((((((((((DOC)))))))))))))))))))

peace and love tribe bbl

Tabby, I would keep going to math if I were you, when you pass the placement exam, you don’t want to fall behind in the class by missing those days.

@DocT, another possibility is some sort of Comic Strip museum. A few moments research found this list–and surely they would know more.

Good morning all and sundry, as bmonk would say!

Doc, say it ain’t so!! Please! :-(

Oh shucks, Doc! I hope you don’t get the shakes from giving it up! :-D Well, you know what’s best for you!

DF hope you see this, left a comment for you at OB! :-)

Doc I bet it will be emotional.

Doc, how about if you just cut back the amount of time you put into it instead of quitting altogether? Would that still work?

I want the first autograph if you do, Doc!

Don’t work that way Doc! Sorry!

Hello Tribe!

Another car repaired and another dollar earned! Woo Hoo!

Good Afternoon Dry, Bmonk, Cleo, Johnny & Tabby.

Hey Terry, Doc, I must’ve missed it earlier, why are you stopping?

I’m surprised that there were no cookies, much less big ones, for breakfast.

So, I have brought a generous supply of big cookies–chocolate chip, M&M, Peanut Butter, Anise, Sandies–for the Tribe, plus a set of big coffeecups to dunk them in.

Be careful–I only have a couple of oversize cups that can handle DocT’s Nuclear Coffee–the factory engineer that I talked to kept mumbling something about “critical mass” and “dangerous”…

OOH Cookies :-D

We make big cookies at work, they aren’t bad… but they aren’t good. Doc, publishing them?

Bmonk, I’ll take some of those cookies too, please! I’m not much on sweets, but today I have a sweet tooth for some reason.

Thank you, sir!

Hey there Doc!

Work tonight?

Good Night Doc.

Catch you later gator!

Peace & Loe to you too! :^)

Good night Doc, and good luck!

HOME!!

Jdoc ill go to math monday, but not tuesday. bc i have a test at 330 so im not going at 9 and then back at 3ish.

so hows the day going?

okay i added a class to make up for my lack of classes. sigh. i now have tennis. hope it goes well

bbml

[knock knock]

(anybody home?)

Doc Congratulations on making a difficult decision. The work you’ve done on the archive is something worth celebrating.

Now you can spend time on different things, just as interesting.

Belated Congratulations to Terry for quitting smoking. That should add years to your life.

Hi johnnydoc, Dry, JFri, cleo, Tabby Marg, carmy and bmonk

Hi Hymenoxis, from yesterday.

I’m off to finish some reading, and then i go to a New Orlean’s dance and fund-raiser. Yee-haw!

Hello Shika

Thank you very much!

home again

so i went to two diffrent store in sherch of ice cream. neither had my rocky road. :0( so i got Ben and Jerry’s Cherry Garcia. it is good but not what i wanted. sore throught so it may help

oh come on people im going to be gone alll weekend come out come out come out

i cant believe that i like this song. if it was not this singer i would like it more, but it in my head now and its stuck. sucks so im going to inflict this pain on you also

I think its funny that she uses the word “Tummy” in her song

Sorry, I got distracted doing a bit of peep research–though my favorite is the original, including the quintuple separation surgery.

Hello Bmonk

How is you doing?

Howdy Tribe!

I’m doing fine–just slowly.

bmonk i had to go and read all of that stuff. and i must say

People have way TOOOOO much time on there hands.

Of course, it was done over more than one year…but it’s really funny, at least to me…

Me too, Bmonk! Like Tabby said “Way too much time on their hands!

yes it wasfunny, i had to share it with my bio. teacher form last year so that she can have a “fun day” hehe and anoter friend so he can just be him and blow things up. :D

terry i am glad to see i am back to Tabby thank you kindly.

@Tabby, do you ever feel like Loeb’s “I Do”?

Good afternoon/evening all. We finally did it. We have been eying this ekornes/stressless couch and love seat set that are pretty dang expensive, but a local furniture store made a deal we could not pass up, so they have been ordered and LG is happy.

so cleo does the tribe get your old sofa?

mom is on her way have to run bb when i can

The Tribe can have our old sofa and love seat. They are both still in pretty good condition.

Tabby, what did you mean “back to Tabby”? I’m lost but lately that’s normal.

Hello Cleo

I guess I missed Tabby. Have a good time.

Good afternoon tribe! Can’t stay to chat, gotta go to work tonight for a little while. So I just thought I’d say Hi.

Have a good night Johnny. See you later.

terry you have been calling me Tab Yuck

Hibye johnnyd. Hello Terry & bmonk.

Howdy, cleo–I didn’t think the moon rose this early!

The moon is always out around here.

But most places it’s not always a full moon.

And it’s not a blue moon either, Bmonk!

Did you hear about the two bald guys who put their heads together and made an @$$ of themselves?

Bmonk lol shame on

mom not here yet.

Sometimes I have no shame. SNERK!

Some things that you should never do around a naked man…

giggle and point.

Did you see my question Tabby?

Sitting on a plane waiting for them to replace the O2 tank. NEVER heard THAT one before!! Delay looks to be 45-50 minutes.

Hello JFri

Oxygen tank?

Terry what question… i told you what i ment

Jfri get off and find a new plane, NOW!!!

Tabby–I don’t understand what you meant.

Yeah, O2 for high altitude flying. Required at anything over 10K’.

JFri, Don’t like the sounds of that! Keep me posted!

Dry i dont like the sound of it either.

moms here have to go.

Terry you have called me “Tab” and i hate being called that.

peace and love all

Hello Dry

At 10K that would come in handy if something went wrong!

Heck, if you don’t hear from me again, you’ll know what happened anyway. :-D

Tabby, I am sorry about that. I must have done it without thinking about it. Won’t happen again.

Have a good weekend!

@JFri, I’ve heard of it, but never been there. Hope it goes well.

When you get off the plane JFri, I have placed a snifter of Booker’s on the counter to kind of take the edge off the day. Enjoy, my friend.

Good Evening Doc

Very FUNNY, TURD!

Let me see if I can guess what Doc is going to do tonight.

Perhaps a visit to Wildcheetah?

Hey Doc!

I’m sure you’ll have fun tonight, huh Doc. :^)

Doc I bet you are going to experience kind of an empty feeling at first. That’s a long time to be involved in an activity.

Doc & Cleo–Even with my extensive Lionel collection, I have not had to spend everyday keeping up with it. I could do it at my leisure

Doc, that’s good if it feels better to you. That’s most important!

See you Doc. You can get rid of life’s comic strips, just don’t get rid of life’s funnies.

See you, Doc–enjoy the celebration!

Have fun Doc

See you in the morrow!!

Slow night around here.

Is everybody done for the evening? Just got off the Wii with Wolfangil & James. We had snowball fights and practiced at the golf range. I got him at golf and he got me at snowballs

Guess I’ll watch some Hogan’s Heroes with Wolfangil. BBS

Just listening to some good tunes. I know I posted this the other day, but I just LOVE this song!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RMA-_ElvKsk

Hogan’s Heroes, Good choice! Just got the first season of “McHale’s Navy from Blockbuster on line.

That is one of N. Young’s better ones, Dry.

I got all six seasons for Christmas a year ago.

Hogan’s Heroes that is.

Ever watch “McHale’s Navy?

Yes, I watched it a lot as a kid. I’ve thought about getting the set. I think there are 4 or 5 seasons.

hi from the He ll hole.

step dad was drunk when they got there to pick us up. he dog ate some junk and when we got “home” we found out about it. S.D beat the cr ap out of the dogs. including the two who never chew on things. my baby Ma ta poor thing any one moves and she runs and hides. poor baby. what am i to do? im ready to leave and take Ma ta with me. :0(

terry its okay just letting you know that i dont like it.

dogs are trippen!! walking around like they are looking for something. one is walking around while he eats. lol strange dogs.

Tabby I worry about you.

Since I do not have TV I have been watching old shows online. Tonight was Fathers Know Best and The Addams Family.

Video wise I have been introducing my wife to one of my favorite shows of all time, Northern Exposure, which was filmed in WA. My wife who lived in Alaska keeps reminding me that it in no way looks like Alaska.

I didn’t know, kiddo. I can respect that .

Cleo no need to worry, I am fine, scouts honor

terry its okay. i understand you did not know, i never sad it before. its fine

we just got finished watching this movie it was good. seeing how both my mom and step dad are, its amazing we got to the end of this movie.

(sweep, sweep)

Good Evening Hymenoxis!

Great to see you sir!

my word!!! it takes an hour for the page to reload ugh! i hate this, we have hardly any signal on internet here. its only 9:47 i dont go to be this early at home im not going to bed now i need something to do and my book is allllllll the way over there and its cold out of this bed. lol what to do what to do what to do? so i get on here and its a slow night.

Hello hymenoxis.

Movie time. Hopefully I will be back, but movies are like sleeping pills for me.

I hope everything is fine Tabby.

Well, hey there, Terry. Just doing a routine check on strontium and cesium in the living room here. I don’t know if you remember the Great Nuclear Coffee Reactor Meltdown of 2009, but I have to do periodic dosimeter sweeps to make sure there’s no residual radioactivity.

Have you had any abnormal hair loss or gum bleeding?

it is

No, I haven’t experienced any of those symptoms, Hymenoxis. But I do remember the Meltdown of 2009!

Good. The system works.

(empties ashtrays, empties spitoons)

(dust, vacuum)

Hi Hy!

Well, hey there, Dry.

Hello Hy

Dry im looking into it… computer is being slow. its been refreshing since my last post. keep losing my internet

Hello, Tabby Lynn, not-to-be-refered-to-as-Tab.

I finally got my comic rounds done for the day. I think it is time to head for bed. Doc & Terry - I made another post at BC. This mom doesn’t think it is necessary for the parent to get punished for the kid’s poor choices - at least when there are other methods available.

See y’all in the morning!

Hello Rmom

Good Night Rmom

Hy we didn’t make a mess today! LOL!

its been on and off here bad. im getting anyoed

Tabby Lynn….sounds like my family. I have a cousin who was a grandmother at the age of 35….of course, she looked much older because of the meth addiction.

(sweep, scrub)

H.i i have been told that that stuff makes you look bad

Yes. It does.

H.I my godmother may be a grandmother soon shes 36. lol sucks to be her

dry, i am getting ready to go to bed… you still on?

i lost my bottle of H2O so im drinking dr. pepper at 11:31pm. not smart.

TABBY, STILL HERE, BUT GOING! :-D LOVE YA’ GIRL! HANG IN THERE!

GOODNIGHT ALL! WONDER WHO WILL HAVE BREAKFAST?!

HY, NICE TO SEE YOU! SORRY I COULDN’T VISIT LONGER!

Dry goodnight, if your goingim going. my mom keeps telling me to go to bed. lol so im going lay down and watch tv till i fall asleep.

night tribe

Dry will do. did u get the answer?

Oh tabby, I replied, check it.

Dry thanks got it

just in time to miss everyone. oh well. quick note to DocT about the archive. I know from first hand experience how difficult it can be to give up something you’ve been doing that long. i spent 32 years refereeing hockey games for (mostly) children and teens, and gave it up 6 years ago. I, too, felt the time was right to stop, and it turns out to have been a good decision for me in most ways. I found other things to do to fill some of the time i used to spend on the ice, and find that i rarely miss it. i have lots of wonderful memories, though. i’m sure you will find it to be the same, and wish you all the best.