Arlo and Janis by Jimmy Johnson for May 09, 2020

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    pschearer Premium Member over 4 years ago

    The horror, the horror!!

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    KenTheCoffinDweller  over 4 years ago

    Gee, just like the “Old Timey” Percolator my folks use to have. Have to get up to plug it in. Let it run too long and your coffee will taste so bad you won’t want to drink it.

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    Dirty Dragon  over 4 years ago

    ♪♫ They say our love.. won’t pay the rent… ♪♫

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    Tyge  over 4 years ago

    Yea, verily!!

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    ericbrower  over 4 years ago

    To be honest Arlo, you walked right into that one.

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    nosirrom  over 4 years ago

    I’ve never realized how long my wife and I have been quarantined. We’ve had that routine for years, ever since we retired.

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    Sanspareil  over 4 years ago

    Arlo really ? she mentioned “come on in the morning” then “turn it on when you do”

    Go and make love to her now, you silly person!

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    HappyDog/ᵀʳʸ ᴮᵒᶻᵒ ⁴ ᵗʰᵉ ᶠᵘⁿ ᵒᶠ ᶦᵗ Premium Member over 4 years ago

    Today’s whole strip boils down to panel 3. Why did they try to make it into a bigger problem?

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    Grace Premium Member over 4 years ago

    Someone needs to teach them about smart plugs.

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    Michael G.  over 4 years ago

    First world problems often entail difficult decisions, eh, Arlo?

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    Oakwood13  over 4 years ago

    My grandmother had one that you put on the stove after it was done percolating she would leave it on low all day until it was empty. You never wanted to have coffee with dinner there if you saw a half full pot of ink.

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    Bill D. Kat Premium Member over 4 years ago

    Alexa can handle that

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    david_42  over 4 years ago

    I get up (0410 today), make coffee, and put my wife’s mug in the bathroom. Two to five hours later, she gets up and reheats it.

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    gingerspike88 Premium Member over 4 years ago

    Loved the funky sound of a percolator and seeing the coffee splashing into the bubble on top. Great sound and smell to wake up to when camping or cabining.

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    ScullyUFO  over 4 years ago

    OK. Arlos not knowing when he’s going to get up is a bad sign. Self-discipline is a requirement to get you through … well … life. Although I observe many humanoids who manage to muddle through without a lot of it. But then those folks depend on the rest of us. They also tend to be more interested in indulging their “feelings” … you know: selfishness.

    It’s important to have structure in your life and work daily on improving that structure.

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    kencrosno  over 4 years ago

    and when he had opened the fifth seal, I saw under the altar the souls of them that were slain for the word of God, and for the testimony which they held:

    And they cried with a loud voice, saying, How long, O Lord, holy and true, dost thou not judge and avenge our blood on them that dwell on the earth?

    And white robes were given unto every one of them; and it was said unto them, that they should rest yet for a little season, until their fellowservants also and their brethren, that should be killed as they were, should be fulfilled. Revelation 6

    The fifth seal has been broken. The sixth seal is quite horrific in description. It suggests an event as massive as a physical polar shift where the planet itself flips. You’re going to need a lot more toilet paper.

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    jscarff57 Premium Member over 4 years ago

    Or you can just wait until the cat wakes you up.

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    admiree2  over 4 years ago

    Geeezzz! Sounds like work. What day is tomorrow anyway?

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    jarvisloop  over 4 years ago

    Ok, I’m confused. I was unaware that he had a job.

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    j.l.farmer  over 4 years ago

    i have a 12 cup Mr Coffee. nothing fancy. i get it ready the night before and turn the power on when i get up. by the time i get back inside from taking my dog out in the morning my first cup is waiting for me to pour into my tall cup. Keurigs contribute to our plastic problem and the cups are way too expensive than the Maxwell House coffee i get.

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    conradcool  over 4 years ago

    There is a much deeper meaning here than coffee makers.

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    mauser7  over 4 years ago

    DUDE!! How tough is it to get up go into the kitchen and run water into the pot, while putting two scoops of coffee in the basket, pour the water into the coffee maker and hit the start button!! And I say that as a guy who use to roast and grind his own coffee, and used only purified water. And Ken it isn’t that it “runs” to long it’s that it sits with the heat still on, because no one unplugged it.

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    George Alexander  over 4 years ago

    It never occurred to me that one could sort folks’ lifestyles by the way they brew coffee. I now know better. You live and learn.

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    RaydarA  over 4 years ago

    How interesting, and perhaps so much needed: Not one comment about the existential crisis we are living.

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    Skeptical Meg  over 4 years ago

    Life is hard.

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    formathe  over 4 years ago

    I drink tea, so,,,

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    Skeptical Meg  over 4 years ago

    Also, I cannot use the coffee maker timer. I’d have to fill the coffee maker before bed and in the morning the water wouldn’t be cold anymore. Fresh-ground beans (they’re ground right before brewing) + cold water = better coffee.

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    carol_tomlin Premium Member over 4 years ago

    This isn’t about the coffee. The last frame says it all. “How long will this covid isolation continue to disrupt our lives?”

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    David Huie Green LoveJoyAndPeace  over 4 years ago

    Arlo is in to real hardship now!!

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    RussellRogerBe1  over 4 years ago

    #when instant coffee takes too long….

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    locake  over 4 years ago

    What is Arlo asking “how long” for in the last panel?

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    Moonkey Premium Member over 4 years ago

    So since I don’t drink coffee I am immune to this virus? If only.

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    tauyen  over 4 years ago

    Gee, he really has it tough.

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    Kathy M T M Premium Member over 4 years ago

    having a routine is better for you. Get up at 8 everyday and start the coffee or have it set for 8 and GET UP :) My dog wakes me up every morning, I would think the cat would do that too

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    Barnabus Blackoak  over 4 years ago

    what made them get up at a certain time before? They don’t have jobs do they?

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    Bemattson  over 4 years ago

    My father-in-law would make percolator coffee at night. He’d pull the plug and reheat in the next morning and call it fresh coffee. I tried it but once. Godawful stuff. But there you are.

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    Walkdad2 Premium Member over 4 years ago

    What? Nobody mentioned cold-brew yet! Course-grind the beans in the blender, add water, soak for 12 – 24 hours. Then filter and store in the refrigerator. When you want coffee, pour half a cup and add water. Can drink it over ice or heated. No bitterness, just smoooooth.

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    mafastore  over 4 years ago

    We don’t drink coffee. (I think I have some instant left from over 10 years ago when we used to let family and friend come in the house before the bed bugs.)

    We are not morning people. Since husband quit his job about 15 years ago we sleep later and later – right now it is 1:45 am and he is upstairs working and I am in the kitchen being away from him for a couple of hours. We have gotten to the point where we start to bed at 4 am – he falls asleep and then wakes at 1pm and watches TV in bed; if I am lucky I fall asleep by 6 am and wake at 2 pm. Have lunch. Work – either work-work or housework. Had to take a pair of his jeans 2 inches at the waist yesterday and will have to do same with at least another pair so he can change off. They were falling off from the weight lost since start of March. (Mine still stay up after 13 lbs lost – ditto.) Dinner at 8 pm. Late night snack (aka breakfast) at 3 am and then up to bed after washing dishes.

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