Friday, September 22, 2023
Letter "L" -- Friday's Weekend Roundup 11 and Reflections and-or Street/Candid Captures
This Week's Prompts Starts with "L." A Favorite. "L"ovey.
Plus Reflections and-or Street/Candid Captures.
Starts with "L": Lois is my sister's name, she is five years younger than me. ["Lois" search results]
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| Bestofhiandlois.jpg (Wikipedia Fair use information) |
Lois is also the name of Beetle Bailey's sister, she is host of the Hi and Lois comic strip. [Beatle Bailey characters info Wikipedia link, click here] [click on picture for larger viewing]
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| My photo copy courtesy of Houston Chronicle Comics |
A Favorite: "Lucy" next to Snoopy is my favorite comic character in "Peanuts". Right now Lucy is in the process of finding an affordable private school so she can escape from her horrible public one. In the strip that Snoopy, her dog, has recommended. Charles M. Shultz, it's writer died in year 2000. His comic ran from 1950 until 2000 when he died. After that what we read now are replays. (Wikipedia)
My favorite comic strips are Peanuts, Family Circus, Ziggy, F-minus, Rymes With Orange, Bizarro, Mother Goose and Grim, Hagar the Horrible, Blondie, B.C., and Beetle Bailey. That's out of all the 33 in our paper, Houston Chronicle.
What are yours?
Right now, Lucy, above is in the process of finding an affordable private school so she can escape from her horrible public one. In the strip above she tells of one that Snoopy, her dog, has recommended.
Charles M. Shultz, it's writer died in year 2000. His comic ran from 1950 until 2000 when he died. After that what we read now are replays. (Wikipedia)
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| My photo copy courtesy of Houston Chronicle Comics |
"Lovey": Loving this, just "Lovey" towards this couple, Dagwood and Blondie.
Reflections and Street/Candid Captures: I haven't figured what was going on here. Or why I took the picture.
It is the traveling semi of the University of Nebraska football team. It carries all the team's equipment and goodies. I have never seen this truck on the road but it looks like it should keep up with traffic quite well. I was happy to see it here on November 2009 at a Game with Baylor University.
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The fine print:
- [Click on any picture for larger, click it again for extra large]
- I am linked with Tom of "Backwoods Travel" (Link here to click for Tom's Weekend Reviews)
- I am also linked this week with James of "Weekend Reflections" (click here for his Reflections Photos).
- The pictures mostly are all mine and rights are reserved to me under Copyright Law.
- I am linked with Tom of "Backwoods Travel" (Link here to click for Tom's Weekend Reviews)
- I am also linked this week with James of "Weekend Reflections" (click here for his Reflections Photos).
- The pictures mostly are all mine and rights are reserved to me under Copyright Law.
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Labels: Cars, Family, Friday's Weekend Roundup 11, Lois, Reflections, School, The Comics
Friday, March 31, 2023
Letter "M" --- Friday's Weekend Roundup 10 / Reflections and-or Street/Candid Captures
- Tom's "M" Week's Prompts, Starts with "M." A Favorite. - "M"ultiples.
- James' Reflections and-or Street/Candid Captures.
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Starts with "M.": "Messy" starts with "M" for a Mess of stuff found under the granddaughter's, KP's, bed for starters here.
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A Favorite: "Mother Goose and Grimm" is one of my Favorite Comic strips. Mother Goose is the Mom while Grimmy is a messed up messy teenager. A little sister cat also is featured quite often.
Tom's choice, "Multiples": "Multiples" of Munchies for Mrs. Jim's bridge group to help their nerves along while trying to be the day's winner.
James' Reflections and-or Street/Candid Captures: This is very Modern and with Touchless restroom in our local hospital, Houston Methodist Hospital West.
I give it a 5+ Star Rating, scale of 0 - 5, amongst the public restrooms I've visited and rated (click to see them all) and posted on my blog. Note from the photo on the left that the door opener is even touchless.
Bravo!!!
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The Fine Print:
- [Click on any picture for larger, click it again for extra-large.]
- The pictures mostly are all mine and rights are reserved to me under Copyright Law.
- I am linked with Tom of "Backwoods Traveler" (click here, Link, for Tom's Weekend Reviews)
- I am also linking again this week with James of "Weekend Reflections/Street Photos" (click here for his Street Folk and Reflections Photos).
- The pictures mostly are all mine and rights are reserved to me under Copyright Law.
- I am linked with Tom of "Backwoods Traveler" (click here, Link, for Tom's Weekend Reviews)
- I am also linking again this week with James of "Weekend Reflections/Street Photos" (click here for his Street Folk and Reflections Photos).
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Labels: Birds, Dogs, Food, Friday's Weekend Roundup 10, KP, Reflections, Restroom Rating, Selfies, The Comics
Friday, August 19, 2022
Letter "G" -- Friday's Weekend Roundup 09 / Reflections and-or Street/Candid Captures
- Tom's posting prompts: This "Week's Prompts Starts with "G." A Favorite. "Grand".
- James wishes for our Reflections and/or Street Photos/Candid Captures
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| Taken in 2013 at Hyde Park, London, U.K. |
"Half is better than none," or so they say. Others will argue, "It's all or none"
Starts with "G": This one-legged Goose wants to be my G-Word today.
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I could not find much about this specific car we see. In races the Abrey's enter it in the pre-1920 class. (road rally link picture) I was not sure exactly looking to find more.
BUT ANYWAY, THEY WERE THERE, ON THE STREET BESIDE OUR CITY BUS.
Tom's choice,"Grand": The last beach where we played was at the Seven Mile Beach at Grand Cayman Island.
We always call him, no matter where he is or who he really is, the Friendly Stranger. A Friendly Stranger took this picture, it has been cropped to portrait size.
Aside, he had been drinking a lot but was able to snap this one for us. We hope he didn't drown; the warm water may have sobered him up, I wonder?
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| Do you know how to make chicken jerk? You sneak up on it and holler BOO!!!! Highlight the blank area above to find out. |
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A Lagniappe #1: There's a lot of Gaff that teachers have to put up with. It is no wonder that so many are retiring ASAP, most Gaff comes from the politicians and some also by the mislead parents.
The pictures are some books that teachers, and libraries, have no discretion but to follow new rules to ban them.
For this week's post I've circled all that have a prominent "G" letter in the word and its usage.
From top to bottom the words are as follows:
Ghost; Gay; Gay; and Gender.
I agree, some are not suitable for all ages, but adults should be able to read as they wish.
A Lagniappe #2: BTW, I bought a used book today, "Animal Farm" by George Orwell. Both Mrs. Jim and I had read excerpts but not the entire book.
A Lagniappe #3: I like the comics, a.k.a. funnies, but I read only about ten of the many of those in my Houston Chronicle. Five I make a point of reading and then five or six more if I feel like reading more. The top five are Peanuts, Mother Goose and Grim, Hagar the Horrible, Blondie, and Beatle Bailey.
Peanuts is my favorite, I like Beatle Bailey because he is an Army Private and I started my five years as a Private also. The other five or six I often read are Bizarro, B.C, Family Circus, Ziggy, Rymes with Orange, and F-Minus. I hardly ever read anymore.
In peanuts right now, Snoopy's brother, Spike, is visiting. He is in bad shape with the drought in the desert where he lives and came for help.
Questions for you:
Do you read the comics?
If so, how many on average?
What is your favorite?
Growing up I used to read Dick Tracy, Little Orphan Annice, and Little Abner which terminated in 1977 (read more). I still have my 127 Dick Tracy camera.
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The Fine print stuff:
- [Click on any picture for larger, click it again for extra-large.]
- I am linked with Tom of "Backwoods Travel" (Link is here to click for Tom's Weekend Reviews)
- I am also linking again this week with James of "Weekend Reflections/Street Photos" (click here for his Street Folk and Reflections Photos).
- The pictures mostly are all mine and rights are reserved to me under Copyright Law.
-The one-legged Goose photo was previously posted in April 2015 with several other photos with a slightly humorous poem I wrote, it is posted at the link below on my other active blog,
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Labels: Bible, Birds, Books, Caribbean, Cars, Cartoons, Friday's Weekend Roundup 09, Humor(?), London, Quiz, Race, Reflections, The Comics
Wednesday, April 01, 2009
Well, it looks like I will make it through April Fool's Day!
This guy almost did!
Labels: Cartoons, Holiday Posts, Humor, The Comics
Tuesday, September 30, 2008
Adi Can . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Help with Ruby (Red) Tuesday - Old things not used. What to do?
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Wine for the Day: Palin Syrah, sales are up in Houston
Today: (Rosh Hashana, the Jewish New Year - at sundown, 9-29)
A Funny: How to cut your work load (Dagwood, comic)
Photo of the day: (Ruby Red Tuesday)
This old desk was the first antique we acquired after we were married, 37 years ago. We debated about the $15 price tag and finally decided it would be worth it.
The desk no longer had its original finish but had been painted this red. It was a little brighter back then but it dulled considerably since the flood of 1979. It was completely submerged with about three feet of water, as were three cars and a motorcycle and most of our other worldly goods.
For a while it held flowering potted plants on our patio. That was really nice for it, I'm sure it felt it had a new life.
For a while we sat things on it but now due to space limitations it sits under this other older table. We do have two other student desks with original finish, carvings, etc. One is in good shape, the other needs some glue here and there.
I suppose it will sit for a few more years, then hit the trash. That is usually what happens to old things, sooner or later.
Of course, since we have an open back porch on our retirement home it could hold a plant back there again. It hasn't for nine years, will things change?
Word for the day: kerfuffle
Free Online Dictionary: Noun - informal a noisy and disorderly incident [Scots curfuffle, carfuffle]
Labels: Adi, Adi Can, Antiques, Blogging, Cartoons, Collection, Dogs, First Times, ics Palin, Jim's Life, Married Life, Ruby Tuesday, The Comics
Thursday, November 15, 2007
Houston Chronicle -- They pulled a big rip-off this week!
And I'm paid up till some time next Spring!
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My comics are gone! Ten of the ones I have read every day for the last several years.
The Houston Chronicle is having a big belt tightening in its finances. Besides reducing the comics from four pages to two, they have laid off five percent (5%) of their employees. Bad news all around.
This isn't the first time. The worst sin the Houston Chronicle committed was to remove Mrs. Jim's favorite, Kudzu. I'm not sure, but around a year ago, they even removed Kudzu from their Web site (Comics). So I don't trust our Houston Chronicle too much about promises over about comic strips.
Now they say we can still read our favorites on the Web. How long do you think that would take every day? For one dollar ($1.00) a month some sites will e-mail us our favorite comics every day. But they don't have all these nine. Nevertheless I could save about $180 less $12 a year by cancelling the Chronicle and get most of the ones I read via e-mail.
There might even be a Google or Yahoo page that will let me read them all. Right now my Yahoo has three previously cancelled Chronicle comics, In the Bleachers, The Quigmans, and Speed Bump. These are all keepers so I need another place.
On the following: The Chronicle link will have today's (November 14, 2007) comics. None of the King Feature pages will have current comics. The others do except for Denis the Menis.
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My comics are gone! Ten of the ones I have read every day for the last several years.
The Houston Chronicle is having a big belt tightening in its finances. Besides reducing the comics from four pages to two, they have laid off five percent (5%) of their employees. Bad news all around.
This isn't the first time. The worst sin the Houston Chronicle committed was to remove Mrs. Jim's favorite, Kudzu. I'm not sure, but around a year ago, they even removed Kudzu from their Web site (Comics). So I don't trust our Houston Chronicle too much about promises over about comic strips.
Now they say we can still read our favorites on the Web. How long do you think that would take every day? For one dollar ($1.00) a month some sites will e-mail us our favorite comics every day. But they don't have all these nine. Nevertheless I could save about $180 less $12 a year by cancelling the Chronicle and get most of the ones I read via e-mail.
There might even be a Google or Yahoo page that will let me read them all. Right now my Yahoo has three previously cancelled Chronicle comics, In the Bleachers, The Quigmans, and Speed Bump. These are all keepers so I need another place.
On the following: The Chronicle link will have today's (November 14, 2007) comics. None of the King Feature pages will have current comics. The others do except for Denis the Menis.
http://www.kingfeatures.com/features/comics/lockhorn/about.htm
(Chronicle link)
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http://www.gocomics.com/reallifeadventures/
(Chronicle link)
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http://www.comics.com/creators/heathcliff/
(Chronicle link)
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http://www.mrboffo.com/
(Chronicle link)
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http://www.comics.com/creators/wizardofid/index.html
(Chronicle link)
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http://www.comics.com/comics/marmaduke/index.html
(Chronicle link)
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http://www.kingfeatures.com/features/comics/dennis/about.htm
(Chronicle link)
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http://www.comics.com/comics/drabble/
(Chronicle link)
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http://www.kingfeatures.com/features/comics/crock/about.htm
(Chronicle link)
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http://www.comics.com/creators/rubes/
(Chronicle link)
Even though it's slow pulling them up one by one, the Chronicle on-line now does have the ones I read including those before THE BIG CUT. (link) or (http://www.chron.com/apps/comics/showComics.mpl)
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So what would you do? Perhaps you can find a place I get most of my favorites all on one page?
Labels: Humor, Jim's Life, Newspaper, Scams, The Comics
