Big Top by Rob Harrell for October 19, 2010

Good Morning Tribeandall!

Good Morning ♠Lonewolf♠!

Sojo, my friend. What an excellent breakfast you whipped up!

Can I please have the Huevos Rancheros, some sausage, french fries and Doc’s Nuclear Coffee?

Good morning, Sojo and Lonewolf…..glad to see you!

Tonight I think I’ll splurge and have another glass of Merlot. Thanks, Sojo!

Good morning to All Who Come After…….(sounds like an Indian Name!!)

Good Morhing MontanaLady!

Here you are!

♠Lonewolf♠ - Your order is up! Enjoy!

Good Morning Sojo, Lonewolf & MontanaLady

Sojo, may I please have scrambled eggs, bacon, a bagel with cream cheese and a glass of orange juice?

Good Morning DemonBaby!

My pleasure, your order is up! Enjoy!

DemonBaby - Here is Kitty’s Breakfast Platter for good measure!

Good Morning, DemonBaby & MontanaLady!

Thank you, Sojo!

Thank you Sojo

You are turning into quite the night owl, I hope we haven’t been a bad influence on you?

Your welcome ♠Lonewolf♠ - Feel free to pick out more if you like!

Your welcome DemonBaby - As long as I can catch up on things in the next day or two no problem. It usually takes me a while to fall asleep anyway and am still awake now.

I’ve got to call it a night now. I’m overtired!

Good Night Sojo, LuvH8, MontanaLady and everyone!

P&L

Sleep well ♠Lonewolf♠ - Get rested up!

Well, folks, it’s time I moseyed over to the ole bunk house and say Good Night, Gracie….

Good Night, Gracie!

Good Night MontanaLady - Sleep well!

Good Night Lonewolf & MontanaLady

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DemonBaby - For decades I worked 2nd or 3ed shift. Sometimes a 12 hour shift 6 pm to 6 am. When with EMS 24 to 48 or more at a time. 10 years with the fire reserve might have to work all night and then work a regular day job. Then once worked 2 jobs 3ed shift and 1st shift. In bed with my laptop is easy at this time sort of! LOL

Boo-Monk That made absolutely no cents to me!

Sojo, Yucky hours! That sounds like it is guaranteed to teach a person to be an insomniac.

I was an insomniac first which made those hours possable! :-)

Time for my zzzzzz’s. Feel free to help yourself!

♪ P&L ♪ ≡≡ POOF! ≡≡

I am never sure if I am an insomniac or just erratic.

Good Night Sojo, Pleasant Dreams

Good Night DemonBaby - Sleep well!

SOJOBack in the OLD Corps, when men were men and women were something you kept inflated in your wall locker, we used to work alternating tours. The secret any Leatherneck will tell you is to learn to sleep standing with your eyes open.Many a tour of guarding our country against the threat of long hair and love beads were spent in blissful sleep upright.I pray the modern Jarhead has not learned this, but I suspect this practice goes back to Caesar. ANYWAYS, I could I please have an order of SOJO Chocolate Pancakes. Does that come with real maple syrup or whipped cream?An oil drum full of DOC’S WORLD FAMOUS (as seen on Adam’s Home) NUCLEAR COFFEE should suffice, but keep a second on the reactor.

Morning TRIBE! Going to the VA. They specified complete fasting. That means no cream or sugar in your coffee, right?

Quick update then toon tour

Good news - #2 child is out of the hospital and controlling symptoms with meds. Reasonable news - she can go back to work next week. Not so good news - more tests and referrals so not out of the woods.

Thanks again for the support

((((TRIBE))))

toon comment - That’s a little too sensitive, I’m thinking.

Hammy is taking a beating this week isn’t he, Doc.

Good Morning, Tribe!

Morning Terry another week of great weather

Good morning, RwB. It can stay this way as long as it wants to. I’m not complaining.

Glad to hear some good news is peeking through the clouds for you and yours. We’ll keep making deposits of prayers and thoughts into the Tribal Bank for you.

Good Morning, Doc.

Good Morning, Lewreader.

Got to get moving here. Many things to accomplish today. See y’all at lunch.

Have a great day all!

P&L

Good Morning, Sojourner, ♠Lonewolf♠, MontanaLady, DemonBaby, Lewreader, Doctor Toon and……….

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mornin’ Tribe. Sojourner, may i have some waffles with maple syrup, sausage patties, and a double helping of nuclear coffee, please? special deposit into karma bank for RwB’s daughter.

(((Tribe)))

time to tour. has anyone else tried out thatababy yet?

Good Morning, yyyguy

I’m now reading Thatababy and The Dogs Of C-Kennel

Good morning, Grog, yyyguy, demonbaby, Doc, Lonewolf, RwB, Sojo, Lew, and Everyone Else!

Okay yyyguy and grog, I’ll check out those two toons, too. Thanks.

Have a good one. See y’all at dinner!

Good morning all from rainy Washington DC.

Hi Peoples!

Good Morning Doc Toon

Almost your bedtime?

good day, Tribe folks. time for this one to deal with RL for a while.

Hello, DemonBaby & MisngNOLA

≡≡ P O P ! ≡≡ ♪ Good Morning TRIBE! ♪

Hello to all those here!

Thanks for the tip Lewreader.

Keep us posted RwB - Good news so far!

Lewreader - Reminds of a person I worked with that had gotten a new job. A co-worker there had his desk facing the door. He learned to sleep with his eyes open while holding a book. He said it was weird to walk by his office and see him reading a book while snoring! LOL

See you later, yyyguy

Hello, Sojourner. Nice breakfast.

Good Morning Grog - Thank you.

Wicked is a pretty kitty. Maybe she could come and play? Kitty likes to play.

Hello Grog-O-Lantern & Sojourner

UncleWhy, enjoy RL. Is your avatar a shoe? Is it special? We have a set of green wooden shoes, very strange.

Hello DemonBaby.

Good afternoon, Tribe.

I’m reading Thatababy and Dogs of C Kennel.

If you haven’t found “Lost Side of Suburbia” over on the Sherpa side, you’re missing a treat!

Well, we’re about to pass yesterday’s quiet comment total by mid day. Good.

Good Morning, Scary1121

Hello Scary 1121 - Thank you!

Greetings: Sojo Lonewolf, D. Mon Baby, M.L., Lew, Doc, RwB, wiseguy, Grog, MisngNOLA, and scary1121.

Sojo: I know I’m 12 hours late but if I could get some nuclear coffee and a couple fruit pies (no gravy) it’d make my day.

RwB: Sure sounds like good news.

LEW: Chocolate pancakes doesn’t count against a complete fast. I looked it up on the interwebs so it must be true.

Hello Frankr - Sure thing, here you are! Glad to help make your day.

Thank you Frankr, and the rest of the TRIBEANDALL

We’ll get through it somehow, it makes it easier with your good thoughts.

For now, P&L

Play nice…. Stay Safe (((TRIBE))) Poof!

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PLAY NICE? STAY SAFE? How are we to HAVE FUN?

What can you do with those restrictions, DemonBaby?*

Eldo Disc, do you think we should start putting up a condiments menu? They never list my sugar and cream! And what about green tobasco sauce?

Good afternoon Tribesters!

Taking a quick break.

Hello, ElDo

What can I do that is nice, safe & fun?

Hey! What happened to my roller skates?

Hi Frankr, Scary, Sojo, Eldo Disc, Lonewolf Grog and Lurkers!

Do we have any Jello mix?

Hi, DemonBaby & Grog!

I too have been reading Thatababy and Dogs of C Kennel, though I’ve read Dogs of C Kennel for aobut a year now at the “other” site.

I’ll check out “Lost Side of Suburbia” when my day is through work wise.

Lonewolf, What are you going to do for Halloween? At home? Avatar, name stuff? Maybe you could be a cat?

: ( I haven’t even been reading my current comics.

Hi, Tribe! I was going to leave a marker this morning, but gocomics wouldn’t let me sign in. Grog - Yes, I’ve been pretty busy lately. I doubt I’m ever going to have as much time to hang around gocomics again, unless I break a leg or something. I could justify spending hours surfing at the computer while I was still homeschooling, as I had to be available for my son’s questions, etc. But now that I’m not teaching him, I’ve got to be actually working most of the time. Current project is transcribing or scanning stuff from my parents, that I think my sibiling would want a copy of, or else I just want in digital form to take up less room.

I’m not sure yet, DemonBaby.

Hi, Rmom.

I had minor difficulties this morning also.

Hello EIDo Disc Golf - Thank you.

Hello ♠Lonewolf♠.

Maybe could list condiments sometimes but staples kind of go without saying. Always mentioning all might lead to a very long breakfast list?

Hello Rmom.

Hi to Frankr, Scary, Sojo, Eldo & Yguy.

Well, back out for a few and then see what the night time brings!

Be back soon!

P&L

Have a good afternoon ♠Lonewolf♠.

Rmom!

Don’t you have to be here in case we need help? You do have your license to practice annd are certified to safely restrain people if necessary? Oh, you need a partner for that. Or you could just use a tranq gun?

Hi, Wolfie & Sojo!

rmom….we’ve missed you. Glad you checked in! Maybe you can check in once a week or so!

So, what is your new job???

We’ve been “shutting down” the greenhouse today. It is so sad to see it almost empty! Moved a bunch of herbs for indoor growing for the winter. and picked the last of the tomatoes, red and green. Now is when I have to use all those great recipies for green tomatoes.

Rmom: I told you all to play nice.

(Pulls her gun out of her holster and starts shooting people where they sit down. But wait! Yes, they are all on the floor, but instead of sleeping there is screaming. Rmom checks her gun.)

Rmom: Whoops! I meant to use the tranq gun not the 45. Next time they will listen the first time.

Hi, Luv!

Uhh, the only licenses I have are to drive and carry a concealed weapon… I don’t know if my gun will take tranquilizer rounds. However, having homeschooled two sons has given me a wide range of experiences that could be helpful in controlling unruly people.

So you don’t just shoot the offenders?

MontanaLady - I’ve applied to do some substitute teaching, but I guess cold & flu season hasn’t arrived yet, as I haven’t been called. I’m trying to sort through stuff that belonged to my parents (both deceased), and reduce it to what I absolutely have to keep, or just can’t let go of. (I’ve got a lot of quilts, other sewn items and paintings Mom made that I’m keeping.) I also need to go through all my homeschooling stuff and other things to get rid of what I don’t want or need to keep, and organize what I am keeping. We need to put our house on the market, and I don’t want to move junk just because I didn’t take time to sort it first.

Do you know what qualifies as NICE & SAFE & FUN?

It is not a fun thing to go through and get rid of stuff. I avoid it a little too much. Hmmm…… how did I get stuck with this job?

Luv - I’m only legally allowed to shoot to kill, and only when “a reasonable person” would believe my life is in danger. (Or it can be a third person in danger.)

Luv - It isn’t an easy task! I’ll feel better when I can actually get the stuff OUT of the house. Right now, it is just moving it from one spot to another as I go through it.

Luv - We’re going to have some shooting fun on Saturday here. My youngest turns 18, so one activity for his birthday will be shooting “reactive” targets. I’ve bought some pumpkins and oranges which hopefully will make a big mess when they are shot. (We’re doing this outside at our place, so I won’t have to clean up the mess.)

Good Afternoon, All!

I’m glad I missed the fireworks!

Hi, boo-monk!

Outside? I suppose that might work. Shooting those 2litter bottles of soda and cans of beer might make a nice mess also.

Hello MontanaLady and boo-monk.

Fireworks?!?!?!?

Hi, Rmom!

Is DemonBaby around? Sometimes that girl frightens me!

[pokes nose from under couch]

Hi, Sojo (and DemonBaby too).

Yes, fireworks. Even a .45 has some flare from the muzzle. And I sees fire when the gun works…

Luv - I’ve thought about filling balloons with water & freezing them. But anything that isn’t quickly bio-degradeable, I’d have to pick up, or else put up with litter on our yard. Which means I’d have to peel off the balloons before they get shot to smithereens. Carbonated beverages might not be a bad idea - at least the containers shouldn’t break into too many pieces to pick up easily, and if they got shook first before getting shot, it could be interesting. (Ain’t buying blechy beer - even to shoot.)

Hey all!

Done with the day a little early. Sweeeet! I can rest some before pool.

Hi, Boo-Monk!

Hi Lonewolf & Boo-Monk

Sometimes that girl terrifies me.

Hi, ♠Lonewolf♠!

Hi, ElDo! boo-monk - Hate to let you down, but we don’t have any .45s (that I know of). Our handguns are 9mm, shotguns are 12 & 16 gauge, and I think all the rifles are .22s I don’t know that I see fire when a 9mm is shot, but the muzzle and brass are pretty hot afterwards. Of course, I try to stand behind the person holding the gun, so it is a little hard to see.

Hi, Wolfie! It’s great you’ve got a chance to rest up for a bit.

It wasn’t your gun, it was DB’s!!!

Actually, I only think I’ve ever fired .22s–both handgun and rifle. (Once each.)

Dart Guns don’t make sparks. So no big sparklies in the sky? Hmmm…… then I better go pick up my new drugs.

Phffft!

Hi, Rmom!! It is nice for a change.

@DemonBaby,

[do I really want to say this?]

[NO!]

you could dip the darts in the Nuclear Coffee…

Boo-monk - That could be a dangerous suggestion!

I know, I know–but the Demon(baby) made me do it!

Whew! It seems DemonBaby has left for a time. I got a reprieve!

I’m off!

bamf!

ElDo, you forgot the mustard. I like spicy brown mustard and Inglehoffer stone ground mustard. Great on Sammies. They are always among my condiments.

Hello, ♠Lonewolf♠, Rmom & boo-monk

Hi, Grog!

Meeting to go to. BBL

POOF!

I had trouble logging in this morning. I tried messing with my secuity settings on my office computer and it seemed to work.

Grog - I had problems, but I just waited a few hours, and then it worked okay. I figured it was on their end, since I got a gocomics error page (the one that used to have Opus).

Rmom, usually a reboot works for me. It didn’t.

Good evening Tribe!

Off to pool. Be back later.

P&L

Have fun, ♠Lonewolf♠

Have fun, Wolfie! Grog - I did reboot, but that’s because I was moving the laptop about 90 miles away.

Well, I’ve got a VHS movie to watch tonight. I may be back later, if I’m not too sleepy, but I doubt it.

Gunite, Tribeandall

Good night, Grog!

POP!