Big Top by Rob Harrell for July 29, 2010

Good Morning Tribe!

Breakfast menu:

Steak and eggs, your choice Hash Browns Sausage links or patties Honey Ham or Bacon French toast Cinnamon rolls Pop Tarts Selected ice creams & ice cream floats! Cold KFC Root beer or PEPSI Assorted juices Bloody Mary’s Select Premium Beers Johanan’s CocoMocha Doc’s World Famous Nuclear Coffee Chocolate/White milk Chocolate cake

Enjoy All!

Good morning TRIBE.

Great menu Lonewolf, I’ll take the steak and eggs with 2 cinnamon rolls, and a glass of orange juice please.

Oh Hi Wink! You and Kingston look adorably cute.

Good Morning, Ladywolf. Your order is up. Dig in!

Hello Lonewolf & Little Sister

Lonewolf, may I have a Nuclear Coffee Float and some eggs, raw steak and beer&milk for Kitty?

Good Morning, LuvH8.

Your order is ready.

Anything for ”Kitty”?

Thank you kindly Lonewolf.

How come I don’t see you at the other spot Ladywolf?

A dozen eggs scrambled, 4 raw steaks and a large bowl of beer&milk, please?

Cats are nocturnal. They can’t teach people to sleep at night, only during the day.

It worked………….It worked……………….!!!!!!

I went back to “yesterday” and then back to “today” and I can see all your comments!!!!!!!!!

Hooray…….and Thank you for all your help!!!

and, now, for my late night snack…………I’ll have a root beer float, and later on I’ll order breakfast…..

Good morning!!!! and Hooray!!!!

Good Morning, Montana Lady. Good to see you!

Your order is up! Enjoy!

Kitty’s order is up and ready!

Hello Montana Lady

Thank you, Lonewolf

LuvH8 good to see you, too!

You’re welcome, ladies.

Good Night everyone I’ll see you all when I get home tomorrow.

It is nice of you to join us Montana Lady. Now you can tell us more about Montana,maybe a few jokes?

Well Lonewolf I was there at the other spot just not for long.

Good Night Little Sister, Sleep in Peace

I’ll try not to blow anything up until you get back.

I too, need to call it a night.

Good Night Ladywolf & LuvH8

P&L

Good Morning **RwB, Lewreader and Johanan

Good morning everyone.

I just thought I’d sneak in and say hi. I saw some strange lights and explosions yesterday and I was wondering if someone was redecorating.

Did I see ICE CREAM on the menu this morning? I’ll try to leave some for everyone else, but I can’t make any promises.

Good Night, Lonewolf

Good Morning, Serena I already had some icecream, have as much as you like.

No redecorating. Just a little light show. Oh, It’d suggest avoiding Minnesota for a while.

Good Morning, (((Tribe)))! Steak and eggs sounds goooooood. Topped off with a DWFNC and I’ll be good til tonight.

bizzy day

Good Morning, ♠Lonewolf♠, LuvH8, Ladywolf, MontanaLady, serena and RwB!

Lewreader must be having some fun with his computer still, or he would have posted by now.

Good Morning, RwB & Grog

Your order is up and ready, RwB.

Thanks Terry

Got to start getting ready to get my day moving.

I miss chocolate so much, my sister doesn’t she lives without no acids what so ever. Just plain foods.

Good Morning, Kab.

Hopefully those high out-of-pocket expenses will set you up for a better paying full-time job.

Morning All!

Thanks for the concern GROG but actually my cats learned a new trick last night.That is the last we will say on that subject except, who has a recipe for 2 Cat Stew?

LONEWLF I haven’t had a Pop Tart in 40 years. Do they go in the toaster or is that Twinkies?

LUVH8 I don’t know about KITTY starting the day on milk and beer. As a child I watched “Sammy” lie on my Dad’s belly and smell his breath. When Dad fell asleep, Sammy would finish his martini.

Oop! Oop! A cup of DOC’S WORLD FAMOUS NUCLEAR COFFEE please, if the kitchen is still open

LADYWOLF I am still jealous of your eating habits. Many moons ago, in the days before Atkins, I too was a youth who had never heard the word diet. But as the earth aged and some of us didn’t psychologically, beer and pizza took it’s toll. I pray this never happens to you.

Morning TRIBE! Remember as you go out to the salt mines, salary comes from the word salt. That is why our boss rubs salt in our wounds.

Good Morning, Lewreader. Glad you made it.

Howdy, Tribe! Jes’ passin’ through…

Good Morning, Johanan!

Good mornin’ to all.

Already Thursday. Only one more day vacation left. Waaaaaahhhh!

Trying to get stuff done. I have two projects I had started that I am going to take apart and try again. Bummer, but that’s how you learn.

Good morning, Tribe….

glad I can join y’all at last. so, in celebration, I’ll have some French toast and a few sausage links, and some of Doc’s famous COFFEE!!!

As for stories about Montana, LuvH8….we moved up here 4 years ago from a lifetime in So. California. Couldn’t stand the noise, traffic, vandalism, big city, etc. We would always vacation up here, so we decided to move up here and be in God’s country full time. We have very mild winters in Helena, and so far this summer, we’ve had only 4 days over 90 degrees!! Woo Hoo.

I enjoy everyone’s stories, and am glad to be welcomed in the Tribe. :_))))))

Good Morning, Quaby & Doctor Toon.

Morning Doc

Grog If you knew how that sounds in my head in the morning…. kind of a cross between a fog horn and a wookie. It tickles me to no end. Sorry, but I amuse me and as my doc prescribes more meds, the little things have a more profound effect. I hope you don’t mind.

Not all all, RwB. I just thought I might return the favor this time around.

Works for me Grog SNERK

Hi!

Anyone what a little tempation :)

I don’t know what type.

Good Morning, LuvH8!

Good Morning Doc & Grog

Has anyone noticed the disappearing pictures?

My flower that said Good Morning today, the map of the US, the flaming/exploding cotton balls, the forest fire in Minnesota.

I think they have started deleting pictures over a certain size.

Good Night Doc, Pleasant Dreams

They were there when I logged in this morning. I know that much.

Guess I will have to use smaller pictures. I wonder if the animated ones will still work when shrunk?;

I can sure with everyone so enjoy.

Multiple posts finally removed can screw up that count easily.

Hi to al!

Bye Doctor Toon

Hello Sojourner

Hi Grog!

Hi Sojo

It is time to start doing stuff, be back later.

Hi and bye LuvH8!

Looks like I probably missed everyone again. Well, guess it wouldn’t hurt to do a little clean up of the breakfast table…

Hi Ladyhawk!

Hi Sojo. How are you this fine Thursday?

Fine Ladyhawk, I hope your day is also a good one!

Pretty impressive for a 7 year old. I have to wonder how much “Production” is involved in the sound. Either way, she is still really good.

Ladyhawk - As she is in a video she is good at lip-synching. She must of sung it in a studio, although they can do a lot of things nowdays to improve it, hopfully they didn’t. It will be interesting to see if she developes into singing as a career. (I think her birthday is in April so she must of just turned 7 when this was made.)

I’m guessing she isn’t that good at lipsyncing and that she just sang it in all those locals with them filiming, and then they spliced it all together. I agree the soundtrack was done in studio. My daughter is 9 and she loves to sing, (and is pretty good too, if I can say so) but I also know how missing the two front teeth can alter the sound and pronunciation. That is more of why I am wondering if they altered the sounds some in studio.

Again, either way she is really good. The way she carries herself for the video is good, and you can tell from certain things that she really is a good singer overall also. Maybe one day that will be here career, or else her parents will burn her out before she gets there, who knows.

Ladyhawk - Yes, the lipsyncing probably was done a lot in production - I was jumping to conclusions! Her singing may of been done before losing the teeth? If not that is something I have wondered about. I had a cousin that had exceptional talent at a young age and became a world renouned concert violinist. Although some disagree, they discovered she had perfect pitch when she was 2 or 3. I enjoy seeing talent show up in young people.

I agree. Just curious - does your cousin still have perfect pitch? They determined my brother had perfect pitch when he was a young adult, but because he didn’t sing regularly, and didn’t use it, he no longer has that talent/skill.

Ladyhawk - She was my same age but died in her early thirties. I think she was two when my uncle brought a tuning fork over to show her. He struck it to make a sound. She ran up and said “what’s that, what’s that?” My uncle said “you don’t know what this is?” She answered “it’s A (the pitch) but what’s that?” She had never seen a tuning fork before!

Her perfect pitch allowed her to play the violin excellently. Her first year of high school she won a contest as the best violinest in high school and college in the USA! She recived a scholarship to Julliard and later taught there, etc.

Wow. Very impressive, and very cool. I love the story about the tuning fork.

For those that may of missed it and might find it interesting I’ll repost the link to Seven year old singer.

GOOD AFTERNOON, Tribe and all and sundry!

I liked the stories about pitch the last little while.

I have pretty good pitch, but not perfect. More of a relative pitch, if I get the mode right when I start. OTOH, some members of the local choir have noted that I usually am very close to A or F when I start singing.

DocT said, about 3 catnaps ago

Bleep nagging cats.

When I first skimmed that comment, I thought you had said, “Blert nagging cats.”

For a moment I was sure you were channeling Robert Heinlein!

BTW, did I miss the original post of the video being discussed, or has it been deleted/unlinked?

Rmom said, about 20 cold snaps ago

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….

Just last night my brother was telling me that they had an air-popper (remember them? Before microwave popcorn??) that they had not used for many years. They also had some pipes in an unheated space that tended to freeze when the cold hit. The first time or two they tried thawing the pipes with a hair dryer, but it didn’t work too well because the cold leaked in faster than the hair dryer could put out heat. So he was looking around for what might help when he saw the popcorn popper. It worked like a charm–they really pump out really hot air!

In fact, when that popper gave up the ghost a few years later, they found another “pipe heater” at a garage sale!

Hi bmonk - Glad to see you! I originally posted it a couple of days ago but reposted it and it should be in the comment just before your first comment a few min. ago. I just checked it and it still works.

Good afternoon, Tribeandall

Hi ♠Lonewolf♠!

Hi, Sojo.

My daily “break” from the grind! LOL

Hi Ladyhawk & Bmonk.

bmonk - Ditto on the CONGRATULATIONS!

Hi Lonewolf. I’m kinda popping in and out between work now, so my comments may be a bit delayed.

BMonk - I also wish your dad and new bride all the best.

I’ll have to remember the popcorn popper when our pipes start freezing this winter. We usually use a space heater, but I wonder if the popper will direct the hot air better… hmmm.

Thanks, Sojo!

Ladyhawk, it’s certainly worth a try. And probably no more expensive to run. I’d think the popper would project the heat better, since the fan is so much faster.

BMonk - I’m thinking so too. I know of a couple of hot air poppers in storage that I can pull out to try,

@Ladyhawk, it reminds me of what Dr. Gott says about some of the home remedies he’s learned about over the years–a bar of soap under the sheet for restless leg syndrome, or Vaporub for toenail fungus are a couple that come to mind. His theory: it may not help you, but it seems to help lots of people–and at $-0.45 or $2.50 a pop for the “medicine”, you really can’t afford not to give it a try…

Finally finished reading the comments from yestre.

Gee, here I thought that was a meteor shower. Oddly, the meteors were coming in lots of different colors–green, blue, pink, gold, orange. And they were diverging, not converging.

I think you guys overshot a bit–I hear that Minnesota is looking for the source of the damaging rockets from last night. They don’t know who to declare war on: the Idaho survivalists or the Oregon Greenies.

I was just walking back from the hot & muggy outdoors and I thought I heard Christmas music coming from our lab. I doubled back, walked in and sure enough The Jingle Bell Rock was playing on the radio.

I was told that the guy on the radio said something about Christmas in July. An attempt to make us feel cooler?

Hi Grog - It seems some stores start Christmas sales earlier every year. In retaliation I remember one store that had a 4th of July sale at Christmas time!

Well I guess the good news is that I’m not seeing any Christmas decorations yet.

Even better news, you didn’t watch any of QVC last weekend. They were having a special sale of Christmas items!

Well glad I missed that, but then I never watch QVC anyway so I’ll miss what ever’s on daily.

After comments had to go back and read about last nights events. Now I understand the “colorful meteor show” we had last night. At least that’s what i thought it was at the time…

How many guys had to go buy new shirts and towels today?

Ladyhawk, fortunately I was nowhere near Minnesota.

Ladyhawk - As I was too busy with other details I didn’t have time to donate any of my own items! LOL

Well, I’m going to call it a day. Have a good evening, everyone.

Bye Grog, have a good evening yourself!

And we know that cleo got off scot free. Of clothes, that is.

Bye Grog!

@ BMonk - it’s hard to lose what one doesn’t have to begin with. LOL

Hi Everyone. :-)

Hi Ladywolf, glad your here!

Me too! I just got home from work a bit ago. All I want to do now is just relax.

I don’t feel like going anywhere today.

Hi Ladywolf

Bye Everyone! I’m off for an extended weekend. Get to see my brother and sister at the same time (hasn’t happened in almost 9 years, and about another 9 before that). Also having a reunion at the church I grew up at. 50 year Anniversary so there will be a number of people there I haven’t seen in 20 years or more.

Bye Ladyhawk - Hope your extended weekend is also great!

Just wanted the TRIBE to know that after almost 3 weeks of living in the tropics, we got AC today complete with 21st century digital controls (Oooohh!). Didn’t get charged for asbestos removal either. I’m going to turn it down to 60, throw every blanket on the bed, and ask my lady to keep me warm. I should be in a better mood than I’ve been.

Hi Lewreader! - A/C AT LAST!

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

Doc - Seems any photo evidence (as if ther was any) is no longer around which would tend to show nothing happened from here!

LuvH8 took all the…..er….any photos. Their hers. NOT MINE!

Bye Doc - Have a good evening.

DOC Funny you should mention it but the only thing the NRC took from me was the coffee pipeline maps and 6 variations of your recipe, Hope you don’t mind that I gave you name, address and the names of your cats. They were from the government. They here to help.

Time for my zzzzzzzz’s. Have a good turnover!

I’m going to do what Calvin and Hobbes are doing: Which is nothing. :-)

Hello Ladywolf since it almost 10pm here I missed everyone again. I was going to ask **Sojourner in his neck of town if he had any rain today. Where I work at sprinkled, then afternoon saw a lot of clouds forming, canceled my walk when I got home after dinner and durn clouds didn’t do anything. And I need the exercise. I’ve been trying to see about financial help from federal or state, if I can go to Jr. college. I’m surprised my lunch picture is still where I left it.

Hi Kab Buch. :-)

How are you I know you said tired, wish I was, been up every night until 1am not fun, I just read, my current book still have a way to go, then up at 7am. I don’t sleep through the night either.

**Luv8H had something really going last night too bad it was taken away, all very funny.

What’s your gas prices in your area? Here it goes down a penny each day then springs up maybe 17cents.

I’m pretty tired, but good to go. I don’t have to work tomorrow so I can relax.

Yeah! Why was it taken away?

I don’t know. **LuvH8 was taken by surprise. I had one on a different strip a while back based on a nice pretty BD cake and it disappeared. I guess someone thought it too big. But the sandwich I posted is too big and still there. She had a canon, fireworks, forest fire.

How many hours do you usually work and what type of work do you do? I remember you said you work on a ranch, I would think you are building up muscles and a nice tan when not in muck.

Are you trying to stay up to post your usual BT breakfast? I may not be here when that is done. It’s almost 10:30 pm here. Where in central time zone in KS. Ladywolf I think your more tired then you realize. I know you want to do breakfast but maybe you outa listen to your body and get some real rest. So good night to you young lady.

We had a hard rain and thunderstorm for 1/2 inch around 3:30 this p.m. SE of KCMO about 50 miles…it moved on East.

First time on this strip. A LOT of good comments!

10:35 here…Mountain time Zone starts around Goodland Kansas…Central East of there.

Let me be the first to welcome you then, I’m by far not the host of BT. There is Lonewolf, Ladywolf, Doctor Toon, LuvH8, etc. As you read you will find more. I live way east of you in KS central part. There is one other lives in same town here and another further SE. We are on the same time frame.

For me I like some strips not all from gocomics for fun reading, and for a long time didn’t know about comments saw an example and wondered where they where coming from then found out one had to sign in. I’m currently reading a book and trying to decide when to turn in. After midnight someone posts a breakfast menu and not me.

MMM! Yummy dinner.

Hello and welcome to the TRIBE hopeandjoy2

Hey what are you enjoying on dinner.

Kab Buch I work a seven hour shift on a horse ranch.

I wish I could in an office job, but you beat me you have a harder position. How many horses and are you alowed to ride any.

I am enjoying Tater tots, hot dogs, and pork N’ Beans.

Any horse as long as I have a partner to be with. You never know what dangers may lie.

Thanks…I usually comment and read 2 cows & Chicken and The Barn as well as a few others and l also didn’t realize there were comments for some time, Kab Buch.

See the Kansas City royals found another way to lose AGAIN! Bless them.

Yeah! It sucks when your team loses.

I’m glad I not the only one. As a mate of fact when I saw BT, DT to name those two It would scare me a little of all the comments posted, but as I started to read some not to long winded they looked like they had fun.

Ladywolf I hope you wear a helmet head cover. Snow skiers, and bull riders I’ve seen on tv do to protect head.

So it goes. Nite

The horses I ride are well mannered, I leave the tougher horses up to the big guys.

I think that’s where I’m heading Ladywolf looks like you have a picnic type meal. By the way advertising on TV looks like Yogi Bear and Boobo is having a movie coming up in theaters like type of chipmunks. I will wait until comes on CD, Movie tickets cost too much. Anyway it looks like fun, same way as the dog and cat movie.

Sounds interesting Kab Buch.

That’s good but one never knows when they will get scared or spooked. What color are the horses are they mares, Standard brown or black. If only I was younger, I envy you young lady I could never get my body on a horse, and I use to ride a bike decades ago now to stiff. I reached another chapter in my book, which I want to do each night maybe not chapter but get some pages turned, trying to get this monster finished. I have a whole lot more books to go. Have fun and get some rest. I so envy you I know it’s a whole of hard work on a ranch but then you get some benifits of nice fresh air in the open. Office type one doesn’t just a lot of paperwork. I will try to catch this up Friday morning not as early as 3rd shifters. Nite

Good evening everyone!

They are brown. some have a white markings on them.

Hi, Ladywolf.

Hi, Kab.

Good night Kab Buch, see you tomorrow probably. I am going out on a movie date.

Good Night Kab, Grog & All

Come on update.