The Dinette Set by Julie Larson for March 26, 2012

Attention: “Please put your tray table in the upright position and fasten your seat belts… It’s show time for Burl, Joy & the Gang….. ! ! ! “

IT"S the Green Blouse with Orange Flowers…. ! ! !

Poor Timmy can cherish them when he sees them on the shelf at the grocers also!!

Good Morning All

Susan , I lost all my contacts when my puter went awry………including snifs e-mail…………..

If you can think of a way it can be done privately………let me know. ;-)

Marlene sweated and slaved in that hot kitchen, making those treats for you, Timmy.

DAZZ perhaps we’ll try again later.

Timmy can cherish these moments for the rest of his life as he tests his blood 4 times a day and gives himself insulin shots. At least he will until he goes blind and loses his feet. And he’ll only weigh 400+ pounds. Yes, he’ll remember all the wonderful things that he learned from his grandparents and their friends, the Pennys.

Good morning to all. And good night!

Meanwhile…. Good Morning Crustwood!Timmy looks like a captive audience indeed. His faint but polite smile says “Pleeease let go of me!” I feel for you Timmy.I can remember waiting to be released by great aunts and old family friends,hoping against hope that I wasn’t about to be marked with an overly perfumed and red-lipsticked kiss. Grandma Marlene’s apron says “I love to cook.”We apparently can’t see the tiny asterisk and footnote that says “as little as possible.”

Hey, when you magnify the strip I could swear the left hand picture, under the table lamp…. says “_ _ ZZ”.Fess up Dazz…. are you an old friend of the Shemps?

Timmy will keep his therapist entertained for years when he grows up

I was lucky….both Grandmas within a couple of blocks and both great cooks and bakers. Kolacky, nutrolls and strudels. The smells alone were memorable.

If you don’t like it, scroll over it. No one’s forcing you to read those posts.

As for the strip, well if Timmy already isn’t wise to her, he will be soon enough when he goes to buy treats at the store. Besides kids aren’t that stupid.

Sorry everyone. Facebook has a BAD search feature! Neither Marge nor I could find each other with names spelled correctly but she found it @ Phoenix AZ and I see the email this morning. I also only saw Susan’s permission to share her email this morning (and I never give another’s info without permission. I did not know that she had Marge’s and I do not have Leaky’s (I only have the Sheriff and Susan’s from this site and he posts on Luann

Very sorry for all the personal ones but I love sharing photos

I still love y’all………………

It is comical that the pennys equate opening a package equivalent to cooking. and poor Timmy is supposed to have fond memories of hohos and even worse-hocky pucks

My grandmas both cooked adequately and we often dined at their houses (my mother was youngest of 3 girls and never tried to learn I’d guess). That is why I asked to make our family dinners (all) by 7th grade,

Thankfully I know you’re kidding, Elmo ;-D

@Susan I forwarded Marge’s email with my answer and the 3 results I had from a search for her name on FB. I don’t know any Shemps (isn’t that one of the 3 Stooges?)

Timmy reminds me of when I was a kid visiting grandma. She would feed us Coke and Pringles, then give us quarters on the way out. So grandma sweated over a “hot” stove to serve the treats? I do cherish the good memories I have of visiting my grandma. I’m surprised they don’t take pictures of her serving the food she “cooked” for them. lol

I don’t think Pringles were made while either of my grandmas were alive. I remember maternal Gma baking pies and I started bakind pies as well as bread in my teens (with an extra of each for the nearby rectory)

Oh goodie

If anyone is having difficulty finding the knife…………..it’s in my back!!

I hope not, I thought the knife was something else (only mishapen)

Hey she could have suffered a paper cut fixing his treats. Don’t forget, just this morning she fixed him a hearty breakfast of Frosted Flakes and milk.

Ho Ho’s and Ding dongs? Aren’t they the same thing, just different shapes?

No, Dave, not “fixed” she Cooked it (by Penny standards)

I knw that Ho-Ho’s were the only ones that I actually liked as a kid. The layering made the difference

I think I remember a price of about 10 cents a package

Grandma, just give Timmy a funnel and a 10 pound bag of sugar, you will get the same result.

you win — with all the clubbish and irrelevant comments here among a few people, i’ve decided there’s no reason to read this comments section anymore. they are not funny or insightful and i really don’t care about your personal lives and interactions — i’ll just read and enjoy DS without wasting my time here. bye now.

@leakysqueaky712What you said yesterday below is what set me off….This is what you wrote to Mona…….@Mona WarnerAnd I think YOU should keep your fat mouth shut.If you don’t know the players……..butt out..Why not apologize to Mona for saying this….. I see you as a BULLY….. AND your avatar reinforces this……………’The reason you cannot find the knife…. is because it is in Mona’s back, not yours……..

Easy on Leaky; He only insults those he likes

For me, this is a Dinette Set that makes me feel melancholy and sad…. and actually feels poignant. Even with all their faults, the Penny’s and Company are generally good people, and do love each other. Even if Timmy’s grandmother only feeds him pre-packaged snacks and doesn’t bake a thing, Timmy WILL STILL cherish those memories as they are the ones he will have with his grandmother. Its not the baking nor the quality of the baking that creates the cherrished memory…. it is the time spent together and sharing of whatever it may be. ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++Please do not get me wrong, “Dinette Set” is uproariously funny and is typically truly spoof inducing. This one comic, however, while VERY FUNNY, also touched me, perhaps because (as I was a late born surprise in the birth order of my parent’s offspring (very late born, oldest sibling is 20 years older than me) ), I never knew any of my grandparents, and to this day feel a sense of jealously when my siblings speak of our grandparents.

Reminds me when I was a kid home made cookies and cake full of flavor not overly sweet either. even the occasional burnt cookie tasted better the store bought

The boy will need a shrink to try to forget his childhood and living in a house full of ding-dongs! :-)

what I did with twinkees is to get a can of ready with and increase the filling. Made my sisters mad I always got the twinkee with more filling. Then mom found out where the whip cream for the pies she baked was going. No twinkees and no pie for me.

I was luckier about grandparents (although one grandfather was much older than his wife and was gone before my birth). Dad’s mother was also very elderly and fragile when I was young (after raising 6 children who lived back in the early 1900s). On Moms side I had a great grandma living in my early years at the house of those grandparents where we lived for about the first 3 of my life until my parent bought a house. I still have one photo from those times with most of my cousins and all the female relatives, so I can feel for those who did not know any of their elder relations.

Re: Poor Timmy. At least he isn’t being served Twinkies.Re: Our latest kerfluffle. It saddens me and disappoints me. I read DS because I enjoy it. I read the comments because I enjoy them and the interpersonal relationships. When “families” such as ours speak unkindly to each other it makes me want to turn away. Please stop it.

I think that we have found IDs for each other and I trust Susun enough to trust her to give my emaile or my FB if some want to speak off of here. I’ve been typing so much I save to just get off every thing. My typing is so bad

DAZZ, I sent you a friend request, also a little video with a young owl that you may enjoy.

I got e-mail from a couple of people… well, three anyway, thanks!Working on answering… I keep very odd hours. If anyone else wants my address, I trust those who now have it to share woth others…and if you have no one else’s and still want mine… either post a clue to yours, or ask me and I’ll try to temporarily repost mine for you.Bear in mind, please, that it might be late in your evening when I get back to it.

I don’t want to annoy further from this, but although Marge and I have email now, I still see nothing on FB and just sent her an email with more contact possibilities (I have a Webshots account as vldazze1) which allows viewing of all my public albums with any resolution and allows leaving a message on a single photo or an album. I have no problem even linking here to one of my paintings (I have on Priceless).

I think I’ll give up on FB unless we have a common friend. I did a search for Susan Sunshine and there are SO MANY I couldn’t believe (many witn no picture and not a word of info).My seach says lives in Phoenix Arizona, Divorced, and my birthdate without a year.

leaky is that avatar THE DONALD? GAWD MAN, I HOPE YOU HAVE A BETTER HAIR STYLE! :-D

Of course, if you are worth MILLIONS, and you pass some of that down to LITTLE OLE ME, I’ll live with it!

Leaky, I don’t believe you even DO Facebook! I mostly started for my local SCA friends and also friended my main relatives who are around my age (not the dozens of grandneices and nephews who I’ve never met) as much as their parents have sent that. Even in SCA I try to limit to people who I actually remember meeting or share a strong common crafting interest.

Some young people there just try to accumulate a large number of “friends” but not me. And to Leaky’s comment of no one over 47 doing it – ALL 4 of my children are over 47 (youngest is 48 this year)

Leaky, I think you live in the golf area and I just saw this about the BP oil spill http://news.yahoo.com/report-oil-spill-culprit-heavy-toll-coral-200119554.html

Oh THANK YOU, KIND SIR! I will put that towards my sons college tuition! And put a couple bucks on the Powerball Lottery! (You never know. I could win the big one! Someday, maybe, before they plant me in the ground! :-D)

Leaky my spelling and typing are always bad (especially without light on the keyboard) but I do not ask personal questions of my kids or their spouses and they do not like TMI from me and that’s OK!

And I’ll have a refill on my gin thanks!

Have not watched some shows from last night yet (mad Men etc) but I have auto record for Imogene Coca (loved her with Sid) and I’m watching YumYum Tree in which (unfortunately) she has a MINOR part.

Leaky I always have a well stocked bar for my friends (but not much wine or beer) I recommend that they bring their own for that. I stock up on beer when kids visit and wind up using for garden slugs

Sorry other people but as main topic is Hostess products (outdated and now very overpriced unhealthy stuff) I’d rather talk about what we enjoy!

’Nite, Dazz and Leakey.