Arlo and Janis by Jimmy Johnson for May 03, 2021

Let me guess, the balance in his savings account is zero.

Nice hat!

They are ads. No one made you buy anything.

I like Janis’ look at Arlo.

“Why howdy there, Mister Pardner!”

Nice “10.85412 litre hat”, Arlo!

“That’s some bad hat Arlo!” (One of us had to say it!)

Now if the chaps and spurs show up he’ll be all set for tonight’s activities.

Everyone makes mistakes, but it takes a real man to admit it. Hoss Cartwright. Admit it Arlo, that hat is a mistake!

This is one of my favorites! Almost cost me a hat too.

So, he ordered the “10 Liter” hat?

I thought this looked familiar. I had to zoom almost 200% to read the date. Eyes aren’t what they used to be.

And he bought something he didn’t know he needed.

All hat, no cattle.

A John Wayne he isn’t!

Ten US liquid gals = 38 L

Count your blessings!

If this were written for today’s technology, he wouldn’t have had to type the search. Just talk to Janis about it and something would’ve heard it.

Fell for the hat trick huh A?

I’m waiting for the Bishop’s Miter to show up…..

I take it those were US gallons then, and not imperial.

On their way, a litter of puppies.

You can actually only fit about three gallons in a “ten gallon hat”…

And thanks to Arlo’s impulsiveness, the balance in their bank account is now a couple of quarts low.

Should have been a cowboy …

unfortunately that what happens when we search the internet for something and it assumes you were looking for something that was comparable to your search, when it wasn’t even close. he must have wondered what it would be like to look like the Lone Ranger, the Rifleman, or the Cisco Kid for all of us oldies but goodies!

His face in panel one is perfect. You look at the box and immediately know what it is. You were hoping it was one of those one in twenty you would just never hear from again. Oh $#!+.

How did that hat come out of that box ?

A 37.85 liter hat.

All I know is, ever since we started using Alexa I get the weirdest ads for things. And if my husband is watching shows on Netflix that are not dubbed in English I will start seeing ads in other languages for a few days after.

If there had been ten square-rigged sailing ships on the the hat, I would have known what it was.

I hate when that happens.

My brother in Indiana asked me to send him a hat with Texas on it. I sent him a black Western hat. He said he wanted a hat like you wear to play baseball…

Howdy, Tex!

Oh, Arlo. Now that you bought the hat…what new ads will you see? LOL

The term “ten-gallon” is a corruption of the Spanish term galón, which means “galloon”, a type of narrow braided trim around the crown, possibly a style adapted by Spanish cowboys. When Texas cowboys misunderstood the word galón for “gallon”, the popular, though incorrect, legend may have been born. According to Reynolds and Rand, "The term ten-gallon did not originally refer to the holding capacity of the hat, but to the width of a Mexican sombrero hatband, and is more closely related to this unit of measurement by the Spanish than to the water-holding capacity of a Stetson. ~ wiki.

Guffawing! Yeah, the creepy part is when you talk about something out loud and ads for it start showing up within the hour.

How many liters if the hat?

Don’t think he’s all hat and no cattle, Janis. There’s another truck making a delivery tomorrow.

The “10 gallon hat” was never 10 gallons holding.

“Convert ten gallons to economic growth.”

I had a break of several weeks from ads for a company we’d bought some wine from – then they started again when I picked up the box it came in within sight of the computer.

LOL!! I love this strip.

This is exactly the stupid way targeted ads work. I may be looking up something for totally minor reasons, and get ads that only SEEM even tangentially related to those. Or, buy some expensive appliance, and get ads offering me the same item—as if I would want two of the things!

And @amaryllis2 and Going Nuts and gcarlson:This is exactly why our computers do not have microphone or camera and aren’t going to. (When we get stuck having to take part in a zoom meeting, they just see our names and have to put up with our typing speed in the chat.)

Missing the humor, and don’t care for the freakin’ hat that everyone’s going ga-ga over.

Two means of efficiencies:- An adblocker, of course.- “10 gal to l” is all you need to type, assuming you’re in the US. Maybe Google in Canada considers imperial gallons for you automatically, then again, it’s probably a less common search.