Big Top by Rob Harrell for July 28, 2010

BIG TOP BREAKFAST:

1: 10 oz. Steak (With sautéed mushrooms and onions) Choice of French fries, or baked potato 2:BBQ Baby back ribs 3: Beef Stroganoff, or Beef Wellington 4: New England clam chowder, or our other fine soups to choose from. 5: Chicken Cacciatore 6: Hickory Smoked Meat or Fish 7: Hot or cold Thin crust Pizza (Any toppings 8: Bowl of Green Chili 9: Grilled burritos / tacos with refried beans and rice 10: Veggie or chicken stir fry 11: Pasta Salad or Potato Salad 12: Tuna Casserole 13: Any kind of burgers you want 14:Hot Dogs, Corn Dogs, or Bratwurst Sausage 15: Vegetable Snack Platter, or Salad Bar 16: Muffins, Croissants, or Bagels with Cream Cheese 17: Freshly Baked Donuts, Poptarts, Toaster Strudels, Granola Bars, or Cereal Bars BEVERAGES: Doc’s World Famous Nuclear Coffee Starbright’s Divine Cocoa Mocha (Courtesy of Chris Alan & Johanan Rakkav) Big Sister’s Berry Delicious Breakfast Smoothies Chardonnay, Zinfandel, or Merlot Foutain Drinks or Ice Cream Floats American premium or Imported Beers Assorted Fruit Drinks or Teas Plain Milk or Chocolate Milk Ice Water Dessert: Big Sister’s Kitchen Of Chocolate Goodies (Try if you dare. Survive If She Let’s You.)

Haa haaa haa haa haaaaaaa! Not quite the impression Kingston was hoping for.

WOW!!

Hello and good morning TRIBE & Big Sister.

Good Morning Tribe and everyone!

Kingston, Wink, don’t go there guys!

Are they drinking a coke and having onion rings????

Hi, Montana Lady!!

I’m glad you stopped by! :^)

So nobody’s hungry.

Good Evening Lonewolf, Little Sister, Bargrove & MontanaLady

Hello Montana Lady, Bargrove, and Big Sister.

I’ll have one of Big Sister’s Berry Delicious Breakfast Smoothies please?

You got it Big Sister.

Sorry ~ Good Morning Everyone!

Good Morning, Ladywolf, LuvH8 & Bargrove.

Good morning Lonewolf.

I’m calling it a night.

Good Night Ladywolf & LuvH8

P&L

Good Morning, Lewreader, RwB & Johanan

See you tomorrow. Lonewolf.

Good morning all!!!

I’ll have the steak, that should be enough. Thanks!

Here you go WoodEye I hope you like it.

I’m going to bed now. See you all Tomorrow.

Good Night TRIBE & Big Sister

Good Morning WoodEye

Good Night, Everyone

Good Morning Luv, TRIBE and everyone! Gonna be in the mid to high 80s, but with a 73 degree dew point, I’m sucking on AC until the front with thunderboomers goes through.

They switched sides at the table again or am I seeing things like Lewreader at BB???

Toon tour….BBL

Good Morning, Ladywolf, ♠Lonewolf♠, LuvH8, Bargrove, MontanaLady, WoodEye & RwB!

Good Morning Tribe!

“Slight of hand”, RwB?

Good Morning, Grog!

LADYWOLF How do you get up before the chickens and prepare such an attractive menu? I’m still recovering from being poisoned the other night with chocolate cake/ice cream/lemonade. I will tempt fate however and order a cup of, what do you call it? DOC’S WORLD FAMOUS NUCLEAR COFFEE? That is approved by the FDA, right?

Morning TRIBEAfter 12 days of heat wave and 2 nice days, they are going to fix my AC today.But But But They said they were coming.

Good Morning, Lewreader

I think you got my comment mixed up wtih bmonk’s. I had said you shouldn’t mix the meds with nuclear coffee.

LuvH8, there is a rather “grim” Lio I think you should check out today.

Good Morning, Lewreader.

Good morning, Tribe!

I know the arc is being drawn out for comic effect, but Kingston, get over it already!

Now if you want to see cool… Grog is cool. :)

Hm…breakfast? Hickory smoked fish sounds wonderful, especially if it’s salmon. A bagel with cream cheese, OJ and CocoMocha will round that off just fine.

I need to get an early start this morning. I’ll catch you all a little later.

P&L

Sleight of butt would be more like it Terry. I think it’s approved by AEC, not FDA, Lewreader

Later, Terry

Good Morning, Johanan

Later, ♠Lonewolf♠

Good Morning All!

Good Morning, DFrog

SNERK! I just looked at what that came out as. I kill me.

If I were in Quebec, I might resent that, RwB.

ROFLMAO! PIMP!

Good Morning, Kab & Doctor Toon.

Hey Doc and Kab

Good morning all. I’ve been checking university out and found out, which I already new, I’m no wolflady. I plan on checking out Jr. college’s, here is problem not sure if I will get to Medical Encoding program since some will want younger and lots of years on experience.

Rmom when you read this I saw your answer. I realize you don’t want to give out to much that is why I don’t write type of aircraft my hubby worked at. But I also realize there are a lot of people who never heard of gocomics, they now of facebook, twitter, myspace, etc. If and when we ever get to go anywhere here to MO a different fun place I’m not sure the HWY we take goes that way. I believe I know where your talking about but I will not say. Been to that town and what I remember from the past fairly industrious.

How is everyone? Lewreader I hope you are feeling better. Virious you had just has to wear out. We had gone to one resturant some time ago, and some food was not cooked quite right and it made me sick. Some fast food place also made me sick.

May you have a lovely and rewarding marriage.

(I will not be able to stay too long today…)

Goood morning bmonk!

Hello Everyone!

Bmonk, your Dad is getting married today?

good morning, bmonk

Good Morning, LuvH8. I was just thinking it was just about your time to “pop” in.

Yup, LuvH8. Back in seminary, nobody ever mentioned about what to do for the liturgy when it’s mom or dad’s wedding. (He he he.)

Same here, bmonk. Congrats to your Dad & Bride.

Good Night Doc T, Pleasant Dreams

BTW ~ When can I expect Boots?

Good morning LuvH8 Long time no type

Hello Bmonk & Grog

  Bmonk ~ I think you are supposed to give them advice on marital relations.

But Doc, think of all the fun we could have together!

Did you know that moonshine is flammable? I was thinking that if we took a baseball sized, very dense cotton ball and soaked it in moonshine and Nuclear Coffee………….

@LuvH8, but between them they have over 100 years of experience. I think that ‘most any advice I give would be presumptuous.

Well, of course it would be presumptious. But think of the embarassment potential. Okay, um you should tell them that you love them and kiss the bride.

Bmonk On my dad’s epitaph

best advice I ever got.

Oh, I’ll say a little more than that…but I really must go now.

Later–likely tomorrow…

Later - bmonk Best wishes

Oh, and since it is you…………….

Best Wishes and Prayers for your whole family. I hope this new marriage is a happy thing for all of you.

Bye Bmonk

May you never trip and spill your beer.

I have tripped on occasion, but always managed to save the beer

Yup, the broken arm was worth it ………… as long as the beer was unspilled.

I gotta run too….See ya’ll

Hello, Everyone,

I am having a problem accessing the comments when the comic first appears at night. (11:10 p.m. MDT). I can access the comic, and it shows that there are “x” number of comments, and nothing else until the first 50 slots are filled sometime the next day.

Does anyone have a solution??

I love this group…..you’re just as wacky as can be. Glad to drop in once in a while.

Hi MontanaLady! - Glad to see you. As I’m not up then I don’t know anything about that. I’m sure someone here can help you

MontanaLady, good to see you.

I think Rmom has similar problems sometimes, but I’m not sure what the problem could be, but maybe she has resolved it since I haven’t heard hear complain of it of late.

I know that this can happen at turnover when you refresh, but that can be resolved by going back to the previous day - and back again to the current day. But that would be at turnover. Not sure what the problem could be if this is happening to you now.

Hello, Sojourner

Hi Grog!

Good afternoon everyone.

Humid & hot day once again!!

Hi ♠Lonewolf♠ - Hope your having a good day!

The day itself is going good. It’s the sticky weather that bothers me.

How about you?

♠Lonewolf♠ - I’m doing fine. Went to the store around noon and it was hot outside! I’m inside now with the A/C. (Right now it’s only 91° with a heat index of 97°)

I wish I could stay here in the a/c. But alas, I need to do some work out in the garage.

♠Lonewolf♠ - Have fun! :-)

Good afternoon, tribe! MontanaLady - My guess is that you are on page 2 (or more) of the comments. Just go to the bottom where the page #s are at, and click on the “1”. Grog - I think you’re talking about when my filter won’t allow me to see a page of comments. If there are at least 2 pages of comments, one which isn’t blocked, I can look at the unblocked page and get the current number of comments for the whole day.

Ah! I’m home at last. Well at least for a short while anyways.

So Hello you wonderful TRIBE.

Hi Rmom and Ladywolf!

I give you my sympathy Sojo. It is only a comfortable 77 °F here where I live.

Hi Rmom, and Montana Lady.

Ladywolf - I noticed on the weather channel it was nice in your area. Since I’m inside now I don’t notice the heat! Sunday it’s supposed to get to 103°.

I wish that I could give you guys who are suffering from this horrible heat, my weather. It sucks that you guys have to sweat it out.

The hottest that I have experienced so far was 102 F°.

I don’t take hot weather to well, and often get Migraines or heat sickness as a result of it. Not fun at all I tell you.

It’s just normal for here. I try to do most of my outside work early and am able to spend most of the hot weather inside. This makes me better off than a lot of people around here.

I used to have a sales route in westeren Kansas and had a car without A/C. The company required you to wear a suit and tie! (LOL). My boss though knew that the farmers wouldn’t trust you that way so I was able to wear better clothes, but it still got hot enough when the temp. was in the 100°’s.

See you all later tonight. I’m going out now.

Have a good time Ladywolf!

Hi, Sojo! I had to go to the tag office this morning. At least the truck had a/c and I got home before it was too hot. 103 for Sunday? Yikes! I hadn’t looked that far in the forecast. My hubby needs to do some grilling. I may see if he wants to do that Saturday a.m. before the shade leaves the deck. I don’t envy you driving that sales route! I’ve been across western KS in 100+ weather and no a/c. Not something I want to repeat! At least I was able to wear shorts, etc. I can’t imagine wearing “professional” clothes!

Hi, Doc! I was trying to take a nap, but it seemed like my family & the phone kept interrupting me. I hope you don’t have that problem.

Rmom - I was on the road 4 days a week and 1 day in town. Hot summers and cold winters! I drove 1,000 miles a week and had to keep appointments no matter what the weather! Sunday looks like the hottest day for a while. As August is soon to be here it might not be too hot of a summer after all. Hope you and your hubby don’t get to hot! LOL

Hi Doctor Toon!

Guess I will watch some tv then get ready to go walk. Ladywolf are you planning to college by internet seems that’s the going rage now. This way no one call tell how old one is and work at own pace. Is someone reads fast and comprehends could finish sooner. Me I don’t read fast.

Hi Kab!

Sojo - My hubby used to (before I met him) work for a bread company. His truck’s defroster & heater didn’t work - he had to use candles to defrost his windshield. You’re right about hot summers & cold winters - we’ve got both here, but I think western KS weather is worse. Hi, Kab! - My son did a “blended” class. For someone self-motivated it would have worked better. He did manage to get a “C” (Algebra) with his dad tutoring him. BCC charges extra $ to do an on-line class, but if you save it in gas, that might not be a problem. I haven’t taken a class that way, so don’t know all the pros & cons.

Bye Doctor Toon

Rmom - Had an uncle that tried using a candle to do that (about 70 years ago) and broke the windshild!

Sojo - I guess that didn’t happen to him, or at least he’s never mentioned it. But a bread truck probably had/has more distance between the dash & windshield than many vehicles.

Rmom - The glass for windshields would of been a lot different then also.

Me going near a computer is like Jethro Bodine (Bev Hillbillies) practicing brain surgery for the first time. I plugged the wires in the new router without the directions. Went to the new Blu-Ray and that was a piece of cake.Lay down and took a nap. The cats must have played with the wires. I broke down and fished the directions out of the trash. Well, I got the computer working again. Do I swallow my pride and call a geek tomorrow, or do I start at 4 AM to put in an 18 hour day doing what a kid could in 20 minutes. Do I blame it on an afternoon deficiency of DOC’S NUC COFFEE? I was whistling for it between muttered curses. Anyone want to buy a Blu-Ray with only one kick mark?

Hi Lewreader - At least you can blame the cats! LOL

Lew - If you can afford a geek, that might be the best route. Especially if that keeps you from putting a hole in the wall, overeating, domestic abuse, firing a gun inside city limits, etc. Being married to one, and giving birth to another, I delegate all the geek work I don’t want to tackle myself.

For those, I hope Jr. college one has communication to professors. Last year where my sister and hubby lived when windows frooze because of ice some idiots poured hot water down on the lock by windows to see if could unlock. I would have tried that but next to the lock not by the window. Found a door could open by yanking then was able to start car turn heat full blast then open doors. No broken window. Well time to go sweet it outside and burn some tiny bitty fat. Not. I feel bad for those with computer problems real pain.

Bye Kab

Good Evening, Kab, Sojourner, Rmom & Lewreader!

Lewreader, there is no shame in calling a geek. I’d do it if I had to. I’m glad I don’t move annually with all the toys I have to reconnect & wire.

Hi Grog!

Hi, Grog!

Good evening everyone!

I am almost done for the day. Be back in a bit.

Hello, ♠Lonewolf♠

Hi, Wolfie!

Hi LuvH8!

Hello. LuvH8!

Greetings Sojo, Grog, Rmom & Lonewolf

Montana Lady, I am not sure what your problem with seeing the comments is but sometimes if I can’t get into a page and try using another approach (eg. the A-Z list) the page will show up correctly.

So does anyone know where to get baseball sized, dense cotton balls?

What fer, LuvH8?

Hello, LuvH8, Rmom, Grog, Sojo & Kab!

I’m going to soak some in moonshine and nuclear coffee.

Does anyone happen to have a large slingshot laying around?

uuummm LuvH8, would that be to soak up some flammable liqu…. never mind

I guess this comment is a little late!

Hi ♠Lonewolf♠

Why do I smell trouble?

I know nothing about any slingshots!

(Maybe I’ll sneak back in when things are calmed down)

Well, a small cannon would work too. Yes! That might be better. We can shoot the moonshine and nuclear coffee soaked cotton balls through the fire………….

♠Lonewolf♠ - You make a good alibi for some of use!

Everything is perfectly calm. So about the baseball sized cotton balls?

Oh wait! We need bowling ball sized cotton balls now. I’m sure we can borrow a cannon from a museum or something.

LuvH8 - Just out of curiosity, how does your mind work? :-)

Obviously good!

Oh! Thanks, I haven’t taken my pills yet. Be back in a bit.

I don’t have any, LuvH8….just normal-sized.

LuvH8 - If the cotton balls are soaked in agent z, wouldn’t they be ignited and expload in the cannon when the cannon is fired?

Is that we we are calling the moonshine and nuclear coffee mixture? I thought it would catch on fire when it was shot out. I am sure it won’t actually explode.

Oh well, forget the details, just see what happens. Isn’t that what Calvin would do?

Grog, how many normal sized ones? Do you have any gauze tape? We could make our own large cotton balls, they don’t have to be perfect. And a layer of gauze on the outside would help it keep it’s shape longer.

Where did Rmom & Lonewolf go? Don’t they want to contribute to the cause?

Having balls of flame flying through the sky will be such a pretty way to commemorate Bmonk’s Dad’s wedding.

Hey, just fill it with normal sized cotton balls and not tape them together. They would go everywhere like a multibomb warhead!

No enough, and not terribly dense either.

Well if you guys hadn’t had the fireworks destroyed, we could have used them. We need more cotton products You guys don’t mind if we use some of your shirts and towels do you? We can tie them in knots, then wrap string around them to keep them roughly ball shaped and tightly packed.

Grog - If you still have some of the DTWFNC soaked fireworks, putting them into the cannon also would be one way of getting rid of them!

Comment too late again. I need to type faster!

Sojo, do you think those would make it all the way to North Dakota?

LuvH8 - If you used C4 instead of gun powder in the cannon I’m sure it would! If the cannon doesn’t explode,

That would be really pretty! You don’t think we will burn down Bmonk’s church do you? They did just celebrate their 100 years of consecration.

I don’t have them. I can’t recall for sure but I think Doctor Toon hid the fireworks.

LuvH8 - Hopefully it would go over it making it a spectacular view for them! (Of course, doing it would be the only way to know for sure what would happen.)

Any ideas on how we can make them different colored?

I think I’ll just be an observer…from a distance! That way if the authorities need a witness, I’ll still be able to testify.

Different chemicals burn with different colors. I don’t remember which ones are what color. Just use a lot of different chemicals and you should get a lot of different colors. (When I did something like that as a kid with my chemical set my parents didn’t think to much of it though. Come to think of it, I don’t remember seeing it after that.)

You would testify??????

Hey guys,

Thanks for the advice on getting to see the “comments” at the turnover. I’ll try the “refresh”, or the “going back to yesterday” approaches. Scrolling down to the bottom doesn’t help, as it doesn’t give page numbers or anything. I usually have to wait until there are at least 50 comments, and then the second page will appear. But, that’s the next morning.

So, if y’all hear from me late tonight, you’ll know it worked. If I don’t appear until tomorrow a.m., then I guess I’ll have to write to GoComics.

Cheers!

If Rmom was from a distance I don’t think it would be reliable.

Hi MontanaLady!

Do I need to use a zoom lens? Web cam?

Hi, MontanaLady! I hope you can figure out the problem. Do you have dial-up or high speed? Lower connection rates sometimes prevent a page from completely loading.

Perhaps not, but I’ll go along with Rmom & keep my distance.

I wouldn’t want to be anywhere near the fireworks!

Rmom - Defense or prosecution?

Sojo - I just tell the facts, and let the chips fall where they may.

Grog - You’ve got a spare bedroom - right? Just in case I need to get a little more distance from their experiment?

Rmom - Fair enough. (p.s. Use a wide angle lens.) :-)

Somehow Rmom, I don’t think we can get far enough away.

I need to turn in soon. Maybe LuvH8 can actually do it?

Let’s see, there is an old missle silo within a few miles of my place…

I don’t have any doubts, Sojourner.

Rmom, we were depending on you to help aim the cannon. You wouldn’t want us to shoot at Kansas instead of North Dakota would you?

Luv - I figured if Sojo was helping, he wouldn’t point it at himself, now would he? Of course, as long as it landed in western KS, it couldn’t do too much harm there.

Yes, but you all are planning to go to bed. Well, I’ve finished stuffing the cannon. You know I think I got a buzz off of the agent z.

I’ll only be here for a short time as it’s past time for me to turn in.

If you aim it, tell me when and I’ll light it.

Okay, umm………… does anyone know where North Dakota is?

From?

Maybe aim north? What could you hurt if it went into Canada?

East - Northeast?

Hey! Some of our fellow postals are from Canada! From Cannon Beach, Oregon. That’s where the cannon is.

They’ve got a lot of lakes up there, they might not notice another crater…

Sojourner there’s more wide open spaces, but there are densely populated areas that can get hit.

EENE From Oregon would go to North Dakota?

Okay, aim the cannon to the right and slightly up.

Aim 70°

From where you are it’s dead ahead, LuvH8, but don’t under/overshoot it.

Ready to fire?

Wait! If the cannon is in Oregon, I don’t think we want it pointing “right” at all!

Stand way back, Rmom.

Can I stand behind you, Grog?

Grog we want to overshoot, it’s for a light show. And we don’t want to burn down a church. I’m not sure there is forgiveness for that one.

LuvH8 - Are you ready?

Sure Rmom

If you over-shoot, LuvH8 you could hit some pretty densely populated areas.

Details

Okay Sojo, fire when ready!

Okay, I’m lighting the fuse!

(Turns and runs as fast as possible)

I’ll check comments tomorow to see what happened!

I know nothing! ( in the voice of Sgt. Schultz from “Hogan’s Heroes” )

(Puts on hearing protection & goggles)

Well, now that I know it didn’t hit in my area, I can now say good night.

Huh? What?

What’s all this booming sounds. OMG, look at that light show, it is work being woke up to see such a sight. That was some round you had there , LuvH8, I heard and saw it all the way in the armpit of the universe. Be wary the next few hours, the Feds might come for you.

YAAWWNNN btw, hello Tribe

Gunite All

Good night, Sojo & Grog! Yep, I’d better head to bed, too. At least now I can rest knowing it didn’t hit here. Good night, Luv!

Good Night Grog, Rmom & Sojo, Rest In Peace

(for now)

Luv - I’m glad it wasn’t “Rest in Pieces!” Hi, Quaby! Maybe you can keep Luv from causing damage while the rest of us sleep?

We had to do something special in honor of Bmonk getting a new family member.

No one lives in Minnesota, do they?

Well, gee………ummm…….. I need to go now. Dishes to wash.

Good Night Everyone

What! I missed the fun. Well………..

I think I saw a fire like that on Knowing.

Me, keep Luv8H in line? Are you kidding. I have nine inch nails and am itching to use them…..

Anyway, busy day today, and again tomorrow.

P&L Tribe

Wish I could have been here for the lighting of the cannon ceremony.

Instead I was at a nitro funny car event. And It was ……