Arlo and Janis by Jimmy Johnson for June 29, 2012

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    Varnes  over 12 years ago

    ♫ ♫He’s Arlo the Sailor man! ♫ ♪

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    Orion-13  over 12 years ago

    Hopefully it’s not:♫ ♪Just sit right back and you’ll hear a tale…♫ ♪

    Orion

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    rusty gate  over 12 years ago

    Can’t help but wonder, where’s the cat? Will he like open water?

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    Tony   over 12 years ago

    ♫ ♪ ♫ ♪ ♫ ♪ ♫ ♪ ♫ ♪ ♫ ♪ ♫ ♪ ♫ ♪ ♫ ♪ ♫ ♪

    Just sit right back and you’ll hear a tale, a tale of a fateful trip,

    Two guys signed bills of sale that day, in a four panel strip…

    A FOUR PANEL STRIP.

    The story had been getting rough, boat ownership was tossed…

    If not for the clever strips that J.J. drew, the plotline would be lost…

    THE PLOT LINE WOULD BE LOST…

    The schooner changed its ownership, the paperwork was filed…

    For Arlo… and Janis, too…

    The college boy… and fiancee…

    Their little girl… and the cat…

    They’re all the Family Day!

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    kbyrdleroy123  over 12 years ago

    ♫ Rock the boat, don’t rock the boat baby, rock the boat, don’t tip the boat over…♫

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    jbpink46  over 12 years ago

    there are times – like this one – where silence conveys everything we need to know far more than words could ever hope to convey. Who knows what adventures JJ has for A&J&family and for us faithful followers. We wait with baited-breath. Head ’em up & move ’em out.

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    TheRealWildWilson  over 12 years ago

    finally – now they can take it home and put it in the driveway like on ‘Cougar Town’

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    bignatefan  over 12 years ago

    @Barry Hoskings: That’s “bated” breath. It’s short for “abated.” What you’ve said means that we’ve waited with worm breath, or whatever it is you use for bait. #everybodyknowsthisstuff

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    doublepaw  over 12 years ago

    Baited breath is a cat at a mouse hole after eating cheese.

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    ljkulik  over 12 years ago

    Yay Arlo! You have been wanting this during the entire comic strip!

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    Skeptical Meg  over 12 years ago

    Well, I found it touching.

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    lisajwalton  over 12 years ago

    FINALLY!!!!

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    Gray Vinson  over 12 years ago

    Finally!!

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    JB10000Lakes  over 12 years ago

    How awkward would it be now, if Gene does find another gal while finishing up school?!

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    StoicLion1973  over 12 years ago

    Finally, after all these years!

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    yoopers  over 12 years ago

    Noooooo! The sail boat plot is now ruined. For years he came close but never got it. That was the fun of it. What next, Charlie kicks the football with Lucy holding it?

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    aaum13  over 12 years ago

    BOAT – Bring Out Another Thou$and

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    Dr_Fogg  over 12 years ago

    And Luddy can sit on his shoulder :-P

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    rugeirn  over 12 years ago

    The two happy days in the life are the day you buy your boat and the day you sell it.

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    Alexthen  over 12 years ago

    Consummation at last.

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    BrianLupiani  over 12 years ago

    Hey, have y’all heard this one?

    A boat is a hole in the water you fill up with money!

    < Ducking thrown objects >

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    autumnfire1957  over 12 years ago

    That song can be sung to “Amazing Grace”

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    sheiladgold  over 12 years ago

    Can we start planning the wedding now?

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    prrdh  over 12 years ago

    In reply to a question that arose yesterday, one of the meanings of ‘beard’ is ‘one who serves to divert suspicion or attention from another.’ It’s usually applied to a woman who accompanies (or even marries) a closeted gay man, but has a more general sense. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beard_%28companion%29

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    guyzie174  over 12 years ago

    Gene, as so many sons, built his father’s dream [here a boat] and now the father lives with the fruit of that labor.

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    DDrazen  over 12 years ago

    Yeah, just that easy.

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    Orion-13  over 12 years ago

    @Tony:FTW!!!

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    Varnes  over 12 years ago

    Tony deserves to win a Tony!

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    KEA  over 12 years ago

    uh oh

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    unca jim  over 12 years ago

    @Tony; Props for your most excellent satire in the key of D !To the ’toon; two men, paper and pen, a handshake and no $600 an hour lawyer to bungle the deal until way past Christmas 2013..

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    Arianne  over 12 years ago

    Yes, not only are words unnecessary, but they would have been drowned out, as A&J toon ‘tators everywhere erupt in a jubilant chorus of celebration! ♪♫♪ Oh happy Day Oh happy day Oh happy happy Day; Oh happy day When Arlo bought Oh when he bought When Arlo bought The boat at Gus’s café!

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    meillered  over 12 years ago

    It was a long time coming Arlo.

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    Tue Elung-Jensen  over 12 years ago

    Soooo… enter “Giligans Island” scenario?

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    burleigh2  over 12 years ago

    This would be a really bad example of a funny strip for anyone starting… yes, I know it’s the finishing of a long arc, but not even a crack, joke, pun, or wink!

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    Drake_Vega  over 12 years ago

    >RING RING<

    Gene? Hey, hon, it’s me.

    Oh, I have some unbelievable, wonderful news! Are you sitting down?

    Gene?

    Gene? Are you there, baby?

    Gene?

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    Miramichier  over 12 years ago

    As Johnny Carson said, for Arlo, the second happiest day of his life. For Gus, the happiest.

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    Gracey James Premium Member over 12 years ago

    Well done Arlo!!!!

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    lsheldon  over 12 years ago

    It would be Ludwig with the baited breath, right?

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    JoeStoppinghem Premium Member over 12 years ago

    The deed is done..Muah-ha-ha-ha-ha!

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    swagner  over 12 years ago

    YAY!!!!!

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    Canoe-full  over 12 years ago

    If there’s one thing in my life that’s missingIt’s the time that I spend aloneSailing on the cool and bright clear waters……

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    AdamJBlack  over 12 years ago

    This strip has a lot more to say than even what has been expressed here in the comments, sure all the jokes about getting a boat is second best to getting rid of it, etc. etc. – yes it’s something that Gene worked hard on, it’s something that Arlo is so happy to finally have, but there is also a subconscious bond being made between families – in a way that only the patriarch’s of each family can do, expressed in that handshake. Well done.

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    K M  over 12 years ago

    OK, there was one day in this arc where the dialog didn’t make it on line; we needed someone with a dinosaur print copy to fill us in. Is that the case here, or does today’s strip really need no dialog?

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    wild0409  over 12 years ago

    It only took like, what, 15 years?? FINALLY! Congrats Arlo on your dream coming true! (And you Jimmy, for finally writing it!). I hope this doesn’t mean the strip is nearing its end….

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    wild0409  over 12 years ago

    @night-Gaunt49Not so sure about that. Gene was a little kid in the strip 15 years ago.

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    bagbalm  over 12 years ago

    I didn’t see the tenner pass.

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