Big Top by Rob Harrell for March 18, 2011

Good morning, Tribeandall…………….

I just popped in to say Hello………………….

Is anybody here??????

Well, I have to go to sleep now……I’m nodding off at my keyboard!!!

See y’all on the morrow……:)))

P & L

Good Morning, Tribe!

Breakfast menu:

T-Bone Steak & eggs(your choice) Blueberry pancakes w/fresh blueberries Hash browns w/onoins, cheese and green peppers Choice of sausage patties or links, ham, bacon Omelettes w/ cheese & Onions & Bell peppers Breakfast skillet Burritos w/ diced ham or Saugage Hash brown patties Fresh buttermilk biscuits w/honey butter Chocolate cake Iced Coffee or Iced Chai Tea Assorted juices Johanan’a CocoaMocha Doc’s World Famous Nuclear Coffee Chocolate milk

Enjoy!

And with that I am headed to the horizontal position. Long day later!

Good night , Tribe. Virtual servers are on standby!

P&L

Woke with the virtual wolves of hunger at my door. If not for LONEWOLF and virtual omelette’s, a man could expire in his sleep. Thank you for your help.

Lonewolf, I hope it is okay if I make the iced Chai Tea into Hot Chai Tea to go with my Blueberry Pancakes? If not….. (maniacal giggles)

Detachable Nipples? Ummm…… Uckies! Uckies! Uckies!

 Good Morning Peoples!

Hello Runs With Beer! How is the lethal weapon? Did you have to bamp any unruly people with it?

HopeandJoy, I hope they let you come back soon. Please have joyful test results.

morning all!

Good Morning ♠Lonewolf♠,♥♥ Little Sister♥♥,Wolfbyte LuvH8/BBS,Grog,Doctor Toon, Plodswbeer, Doc Toon, MontanaLady, ♪Hopeandjoy♫Serenasakitty,, SRmom,Bmon,Ladyhawk,,lakesnake ,Lewreader;MisngNOLA,Woodeye, Yukoneric, The Sojourner, Only Tink, pseudo,Digital Frog,Ponytail56

I just keep a list of name easier this way.

Grog when you read this thanks fo your suggestion of essay outline. I will need to study for this on topics. Twis hard enough for a paragraph of 10-12 lines for some topics.

Oh! I forgot it is Plods With Beer now. Maybe that is because I still picture him running from Knocks Over Beer?

Good Morning Digital Frog & Kab Sister!

I remember doing outlines. What a pain! But very useful.

One thing I learned in my recent study of personality type theory is why some people find it naturally easier to make outlines than others. For me it’s a developed skill, but not rooted in the strongest natural mental ability I have.

The mental ability that enables us to make outlines, checklists, footnotes, classifications, etc. is highly valued in our society, and so most of us have developed some skill with it. “Highly useful” it is, but largely because there’s a demand for it. The ability to make proper value judgments is just as useful, but it’s by far the least highly regarded of our natural cognitive processes in American society.

Just some food for thought to go with breakfast… :)

Oh….. I am really good at making lists of all sorts and organizing. It is just following the list or staying organized….

Good morning, tribe! Kab - Grog has some excellent advice. Your professor may or may not require you to turn in an outline for your essay, but he or she will expect your essay to follow the format Grog mentioned. Most (if not all) English teachers expect their students to use an outline when writing an essay. My CPA got our tax returns done. She said we get a refund from Fed, but have to pay into KS. However, we have to pay a little less than our Fed refund, so sounds like we did okay on guessing our withholding for this year.

Oooops! - Sounds like we have a lot in common. I love to set up new organizational systems, just hate doing the routine filing to keep it up. I prefer to do mental checklists, but I’ve learned that I need a written checklist to refer to as my memory is getting worse. Thank God for computers, as that makes writing checklists a whole lot easier for me. 3x5 cards will feed into my printer, so I even print out my shopping lists.

Hi, Doc! Any big plans for tonight?

Doc - I guess I misunderstood. You were off last night, but not tonight?

Doc - I’m glad the mattress was comfortable. It would be the pits to buy a new one and find out it wasn’t.

Hello all that is why I thank Grog for the information. I was planning on copy and pasting what he wrote for upcoming essay’s after spring break. Having a hard time getting his comment copied. For My writing lab on grammar I received a B 84% I have two more to go.

The job promoted facility manager makes a list of work to be done. For me that wouldn’t work out. My job is basic answer phones, input work-order’s(maintenance requests and this has changed) and files for prepare for future On-base scanning or scanning old documents. Then if someone else needs some other simple task done do it. Also I have to routinely check files make sure all documents are in the right files.

≡≡ P O P ! ≡≡ ♪ Hello TRIBE! ♪

Hello to all those here!

I’ll have some blueberry pancakes and a piece of cohcolate cake please.

Just finished updating critical drivers on my computer (like the chipset etc.) Hope it helps.

Did anyone see the worker I believe in Detroit that used twitter to post his aggravation? He was in rush hour traffic had a meeting and was texting his frustration. His URL went to corporate link executive’s were very unhappy about this and the guy was terminated not only that the business were this guy was all 20 were let go. That is why I don’t say where I work at only use dept, I never know who will read what is wrote, though for me it’s very doubtful they would read GC and BT. The guy used Twitter. Not smart for him. If I was twitting I wouldn’t give corporate name out and not use work URL to send out messages.

Hello Doctor Toon and ♥Kab♥!

Hi, Sojo & Kab!

Helo Rmom!

♥Kab♥ - I’m might of heard of it but I’m not sure, thanks.

I wonder if what that guy did be a great essay of what not to do. I planned to doing a neighbor sale weather says thunderstorms for Saturday. Also plan on JC Penny for new work tops. From Christmas money.

Weird news story this morning. Seems the recycling truck found a dead body this morning. Now they have to investigate all 55 stops it made, to figure out which stop the body got picked up.

Kab - I think the T-storms are supposed to be “scattered” tomorrow, so you might still have time to go to some sales.

Rmom - Interesting link,thank you, I hadn’t heard about it yet.

Will do some more ‘puter maintance. BBL

I heard about that body being found. In Washing, D.C. a child has been arrested for cocaine. Police will investigate the parents.

The man who did the texting on twitter who was terminated spoke to a news man about that. He though he changed his URL. Apparently not. Not wise. I am eating lunch, then change, and getting ready to leave.

Hi, pseudo!

Good morning! Especially DocT, pseudo, & SRMom!!

The rodent revolution is alive and well in Dakota! (Squirrels defeat wolves!)

Hi, bmonk!

Nope–just hadn’t gotten around to changing it. (As German-heritage fellow, St. Joseph is a better fit anyway.)

Hello Tribe I am Home They let me go in time to watch Duke play this afternoon if I pretend I am still in the hospital for the next week. (I will behave myself) I have viral Pneumonia…Silent Pneumonitis…and they ruled out bad stuff like an embolism!!

Thanks for your thoughts and prayers…I didn’t have a laptop with me. I will read through what I missed and I will keep in touch while I recover!! BIG SMILE

Welcome back, Hope&Joy!!!

You’ll probably get more rest at home in your own bed than you would in a hospital bed, as long as your family will wait on you “hand & foot”.

POP!

Done with computer maintance.

HopeandJoy♫ - Glad it’s not worse. Get well soon!

Good Afternoon, Tribe

Good to see you back, HopeandJoy♫

I’m glad you found the suggestion useful, ♥Kab♥. As Rmom said, many English teachers will require you to use an outline. Some may actually require you to submit the outline with the essay. I found it useful in my University years preparing reports for various subjects. They are especially useful in putting together works of pure fiction.

When I was young, I would buy any book about Star Trek. One, in particular, dealt with writing for television, and particularly, Star Trek. They would not commission the writing of a script without first seeing the story outlline. Very interesting stuff if you are looking to get into writing for television.

Hello Grog!

Hello, Sojourner.

Fifty four comments and only one having anything to do with the comic. Frakly, I think commenting about comics is kind of silly anyway. I’ve been away for a long time so I’m wondering what happened to Joe Doty. His remarks were always entertaining and had something besides good morning in them.

Hello carhauler - Joe has been gone from GoComics for some time.

pseudo said, about 2 questions ago

What’s the St. Joseph connection?

I don’t know–just that Germans seem to like St. Joe more than most other saints.

Hopeandjoy♫, get well! You can have both hope and joy with pneumonia, but it’s easier without!

Hi, Grog and carhauler**!

I think Joe got kicked off after angering too many with his comments. Or crossing the line into abuse or something.

Hello, Carhauler & bmonk

Joe had a way of getting under the skin of many in the GoComics community. For the most part, his comments didn’t bother me, except for his tendancy toward name-calling. Most were long-winded and I have a tendancy toward skipping past the long-winded. Joe did have a way with being at the center of controversy though. I think he went overboard with the name-calling and he was finally bounced after a heap of tollerance.

I, for one, am glad he’s gone. There’s much less controvery to endure as a result.

Hello bmonk!

Speaking of Lamb, here’s a Honey-Mustard Glazed Lamb that’s really good. With or without Mint Jelly.

Ingredients: .2 Tbl. chopped onion .2 Tbl. parsley .2 tsp. sage .2 tsp. rosemary .2 Tbl. fresh thyme .1 tsp. grated lemon peel .1 large clove garlic (minced) .1/2 tsp. salt .1/2 cup honey .2 Tbl. lemon juice .3-4 lb. lean boneless leg of lamb, well trimmed, or lamb stew meat salt and pepper

Directions:

Combine onion, parsley, sage, rosemary, and thyme, lemon peel, garlic, and salt; mix well. Quit singing “Scarborough Fair.” In a separate bowl, combine honey and lemon juice. Place boneless leg of lamb on a flat surface, meat side up, and season with salt and pepper. Brush lamb with honey mixture; sprinkle with herb mixture. Roll and tie. Rub roast with honey mixture. Bake on a roasting rack in oiled roasting pan in a 350° F oven, allowing 20-25 minutes per pound for medium rare, or 145° internal temp. Brush with honey mix every 20 minutes. When all of honey mix is used, brush with drippings.

Hello pseudo!

@pseudo, IIRC I did have to switch one or the other spices to get it right. But, with my sense of (?) humor, how could I resist?

bmonk, can I sing The Boxer or Cecilia?

Either one–but it’s harder to see why you would…

Hi, pseudo

Well for one, I’m not crazy about Scarborough Fair, even though I know the line you are referring to. Still I would not sing it, even if I did use rosemary & thyme, which I do not. Well I do occasionally use thyme, but rosemary’s not even on my list of uncommonly used spices.

As long as he wears a cambric shirt.

pseudo, there are certainly far worse songs, but I did not buy the best of S&G for that. I do like The Boxer, Mrs. Robinson, Cecelia & Bridge Over Troubled Water. That’s what I bought it for.

BBL

Bye, O’Grog.

HopeandJoy….I guess I missed a few comments in the last few days……..didn’t know you were sick! But, so glad you are back home………ruby slippers and all.

In reading bmonk’s recipe, I’m getting hungry…..so it’s time to start dinner. Tonight is “Mexican Lasagna”……using chicken with sourcream, onion, and chilis in the filling, with cheddar and jack cheeses, and tortillas instead of noodles. I make individual servings, so I can make mine spicier than My Mountain Man’s.

No singing until you guys practice more……I heard a lot of off key voices there!

Hello Montana Lady - Sounds like you’ll have a good supper!

Hi, Sojo…..come on over……I always make lots!

My sister’s fave, for obvious reasons, was “Cecelia”

Only without the basketballs.

Bingo!

The full moon tomorrow night will be the biggest in 18 years, since 1993.

Watching Kansas play BU on the internet. Small picture but at least I can watch it as I don’t get any stations that carry March Maddnes besides CBS.

Driving home with his wife one day, a man was stopped by the police. The cop said, “Sir, you were going 60 mph in a 50 mph zone.”

“No I wasn’t,” the man said.

His wife leans over and says, “Yes you were, honey.”

“Why don’t you shut the hell up?” he told her.

The cop continues, “You also didn’t have your seatbelt on, sir.”

“Yes I did,” the man said.

“No, honey, no you didn’t,” his wife chimed in.

“Didn’t I just tell you to shut up?” the man shouted.

The cop finally leans into the window and says, “Ma’am, is this your husband?”

“He sure is,” she replied.

“Is he always this mean and rude with you?” the cop asked.

The woman smiled at him and said, “No, officer, only when he’s drunk.”

Hello Ooops! - LOL

pseudo - Yes, I have a fast connection but I’m running it through a G wireless. It’s a small picture so it doesn’t take much. Go here to go to live games.

pseudo - LOL - The amount of info it has to send can take more bandwith so a larger picture showing more detail could slow it down. When I had SkyAngel I watched regular TV programs and used the internet on my laptop at the same time. Once I was wathing the TV over the internet wireless, downloading files on my laptop wirelessly over the G router and was downloading a large file on my desktop at 2 megs/sec. at the same time.

SkyAngel use to be satelite but switched to the internet, that’s when I had it. You needed their box to use it and it was then like having cable.

I think you needed 2.5 meg. download speed to watch it. I tested my speed on my desktop and got over 11. When talking to their tech to order it he didn’t believe it and had me run another speed test while he was on the phone.

End of the first half and KU is ahead 33 to 29.

Good Evening, Tribe!

Home from work, in relax mode and getting ready for………………

PIZZA NIGHT !!!

Good Evening ♠Lonewolf♠!

PIZZA NIGHT!

May I have a thin crust mushroom and Canadian bacon?

Hi, Pseudo & Sojo.

Your order is in the oven as we speak, Sojo. Great choice!

pseudo, oddly enough, I was not a fan of Paul Simon’s work after S&G - although I did like 50 Ways to Leave Your Lover.

Hi, Grog!

I’m back. Good evening, Sojo, pseudo, ♠Lonewolf♠ & anyone else who may still be hanging around.

Well I just finished supper. Corned beef & cabbage soup again. That’s the thing about Corned beef & cabbage soup: like possom innards, theys just as good the next day.

Sorry, but I couldn’t resist using Jed’s line from The Beverly Hillbillies.

Good Evening Grog!

I’m getting hungry also, Pseudo!

pseudo, will you eat just about anything when you are hungry? I think I could resist the temptation to eat possom innards. I’d much rather eat pizza.

I am slightly picky when it comes to what I eat.

Well I liked ELO (particularly the early ELO) & Supertramp, but but I tend not to stray too far away from my rock roots, unless it’s jazz, blues or the sounds from the big band era.

pseudo - Now that the game is almot over I saw how to go to full screen!

pseudo I was not brought up on pizza. My Mom was a very picky eater and our menu reflected her tastes. When we went out for dinner as a family it was always to places where she could eat the food. My Dad actually got my Mom to try a smoked meat sandwich once and she liked it. But other than that, she did not eat foods she was not brought up on. If she didn’t like it, she didn’t have to eat it. Unfortunately that was not the case for me until I grew up.

The only place we could really go to for dinner at night, was a place called St. Hubert, they did BBQ chicken and they do it very well. I actually miss it.

But I was really only introduced to some of my favorites when I started working for a living. Pizza joints were a dime a dozen and the pizza chains were garbage. I think the Mom & Pop joints in Montreal could put many of their American counterparts to shame. ButI could take or leave pizza, and when I tried the pizza here, I’d rather leave it. I really grew to like pigs knuckles & saurkraut. Also Montreal has some fantastic Asian restaurants like The Baggette d’Ivoir & The Piment Rouge. And they also have some great Greek/Mediterranean restaurants. There was even a place in Montreal that even did Cajun. I managed to get there 3 times before I left.

KU won 72 to 53. :-)

pseudo, I liked The Beatles; I LOVED The Stones!!!

Hi and Bye Doctor Toon.

Hi & Bye, Doc

Time for my zzzzzz’s.

♪ P&L ♪ ≡≡ POOF! ≡≡

Good night, Sojo

I don’t think I’m too far behind you.

My turn.

Gunite, Tribeandall

My internet connection is being sucky! Are you saying these neighbors and strangers are stealing my bandwidth? I didn’t actually try to understand. Shall I charge up my devices and then cause a blackout so I can have internet access?

Then whatever GoComics has been doing has been blocking me from comments on Fiend. So… even more often I end up hit and run commenting.