Arlo and Janis by Jimmy Johnson for October 13, 2020

Taking no chances!!

Peter, Peter pumpkin eater,

Had another and didn’t love her;

Peter learned to read and spell,

And then he loved her very well.

Come on Janis, size matters.

My Favorite October pumpkin patch strip!

https://www.gocomics.com/arloandjanis/2002/10/05

I cannot help thinking that ever since mejda got banned, I don’t think any of the characters have worn masks.

Arlo, if you’re really considering this might I suggest something more suitable?

https://time.com/5410698/largest-pumpkin-north-america-history/

And you could move in with her.

Peter’s wife cheated on him, so he killed her and hid the body.

Shouldn’t A&J be getting their pumpkin(s) from Gene and Mary Lou?

Or is Jimmy Johnson trying to forget that “the kids” (and Meg and Gus) were ever part of the strip?

There is an old joke about Cinderella and Peter Peter Pumpkin Eater perhaps its online.

I won’t go there, I won’t go there, I won’t go there.

In the first year English course at university, which was really a brief history of English literature, one of the segments was on nursery rhymes. A “pumpkin shell” was an olde englishe euphemism for a “chastity belt”. Now the nursery rhyme makes sense.

PSYCH!!!

Well done, Arlo.

Just like some women shoe shopping.

NOW, She knows she’s a Size 10, but she has to try that size 4.

okay… so now I’m wondering about the story behind that rhyme

That was funny!

Hey, Arlo always supports her home improvement projects; Janis should be willing to at least look at the floor models!

Didn’t Arlo carve a pumpkin already?

Janis, that will be very uncomfortable.

Cinderella did Ok – I guess.

It is only as an adult did I realize how really weird and creepy some nursery rhymes are.

She is far from happy, now.

That pumpkin wont work.

I never realized how creepy that nursery rhyme is.

I’m hoping that tomorrow Janis walks into a mashup of “A&J” and “Wallace the Brave” and joins Amelia in her “Bad Idea” pumpkin escapade.

Implying what exactly?…..

Random find: Eeper Weeper, chimney sweeper, Had a wife but couldn’t keep her. Had another, didn’t love her, Up the chimney he did shove her.Peter, Peter, pumpkin-eater, Had a wife and couldn’t keep her; He put her in a pumpkin shell, And there he kept her very well.

What It’s Really About: Murder.

The wife that “couldn’t be kept” in this rhyme didn’t keep running away or anything — rather, she was supposedly a prostitute. Historians believe that Peter the pumpkin-eater tired of his wife’s extra-curricular activities, then murdered her and hid her body in a pumpkin.

Source: https://www.bustle.com/articles/73136-8-nursery-rhymes-with-bizarre-hidden-meanings-because-peter-pumpkin-eater-is-a-murderer#:~:text=Peter%2C%20Peter%2C%20pumpkin%2Deater,he%20kept%20her%20very%20well.&text=An%20even%20more%20outrageous%20interpretation,wall%20to%20starve%20to%20death.

First thought: Arlo didn’t feel like toting a heavy..

She gonna feel cramped.