Big Top by Rob Harrell for August 24, 2010

Tonight’s breakfast menu:

*Pan fried potatoes with chunks of hot dogs in it, or Potato cakes, hash browns, and tater tots. *Huevo rancheros and assorted kolaches

crispy fried bacon and eggs done the way you want it. Stack of buttermilk pancakes, or Belgium waffles with Maple syrup or honey. Ham, chicken, steak, Ribs, or leg of lamb Turkey dressing casserole Burgers, hot dogs, and bratwurst sausage Baked beans, chili beans. or refried beans with or without melted cheese Fish and shrimp Fried Okra, onions, Shrimp, Broccoli, cauliflower, tomatoes, carrots, celery, spinach, salad with croûtons, and bacon bits. (All salad dressings available) assorted fruits Beverages:

Doc’s World Famous Nuclear Coffee Starbright’s Divine Cocoa Mocha (Courtesy of Chris Alan & Johanan Rakkav) My Big Sister’s Berry Delicious Breakfast Smoothies

Regular coffee, with creamer on request Chardonnay, Zinfandel, Merlot, Or sparkling wine of your choice, Bloody Mary *Fountain Drinks or Ice Cream Floats *American premium or Imported Beers *Assorted Fruit Drinks or Teas V8 vegetable juice *Plain Milk or Chocolate Milk *Ice Water Dessert:

Special - Big Sister’s Nuclear Coffee Fudge Explosion Delight. (Once you taste it you’ll keep coming back for more. I guarantee it)

German Chocolate Fudge Cake and an assortment of cookies Cotton candy, caramel candy apples, salt water Taffy, other chocolate candies and m&m’s, Apple Pie, Pecan Pie, Lemon Meringue Pie, Pumpkin Pie, Chocolate Cream Pie.

I like what Wink is saying. Yum, yum, yum.

OHHHHHHHH…..Big Sister’s Nuclear Coffee Fudge Explosion Delight!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Gotta have a slice of that!!!!

Can you throw in some Mint Tea with that, please.

Thanks, Lil’ Sis…..:)))))

Good morning to all you crazy Tribeandall’s!!!!

Here you go MontanaLady, I hope you like it. :-)

I found a rubber duckie that is a foot long, Under The Big Top.

Hello Little Sister & MontanaLady

Little Sister, may I have a Berry Smoothie, please?

Yes you may Big Sister. Here you go.

A rubber duckie!

Thank you Little Sister.

You’re welcome.

Yes! A rubber duckie with a straw bonnet. Now I need a swimming pool to go with it.

HopeandJoy2, Yoou knew I couldn’t resist looking!

Should be one here somewhere.

Unwanted Advice

Do not swallow medication with Distortion Mountain Dew.

How come?

Was it a bad taste? Did it give you an upset stomach?

Side effects! Nausea!

I guess I’ll go to bed now. Good night TRIBE, Big Sister, & Sister Kab

It disolves the pill before you can swallow. A lot of fruit juices do too. Blechy! Blechy! Blechy!

That makes sense .

Good Night Little Sister and MontanaLady

Pleasant Dreams Everyone!

Good Mornin LITTLE SISTER. Could I have a stack of buttermilk pancakes smothered in butter and syrup please. And a pot or two of coffee, none of that NUCLEAR stuff. I’m onto DOC TOON. He plans to hook the world and then shoot the price up.Paranoid? Yes my shrink calls me that. Nuts? Yes he uses that word too. Why do you ask?

Morning TRIBE! Why is one of my cats rubbing my ankle carrying a can opener?The other is trying to drag the cat dish over. Stupid cats.

I’m up early, might sneak back to bed before The Usual Time.

Today’s Avatar: A different kind of “blue moon”, caused by a volcanic eruption if memory serves…

Pop Good Morning ((Tribeandall))!

MontanaLady said, OHHHHHHHH…..Big Sister’s Nuclear Coffee Fudge Explosion Delight!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Just don’t light the fuse on it and you’ll be fine, ML.

Stephen Wright strikes again, Johanan. 2 Spams for the price of one, kewl. Gonna go git me some….

Poof

Good morning all. Ohh, I wanna hit up that spam site for one of those puma slipper women. I wonder what they’re like.

Free Twizzlers! Who can pass that up?

Hey Fellow Baby, when you get here!

Good Morning, Little Sister, MontanaLady, LuvH8, Lewreader, Johanan, RwB, MisngNOLA & Fellow Baby!

Little Sister, I am drooooooling over the rack of Lamb. Don’t get up, I’ll get it myself.

Da strip: I don’t want to see any movie with Madona in it.

pop Grog!

Good morning my friend

Just passin thru on the flag run.

poof

RwB, see the comment string you started at yesterday’s 2 Cows & A Chicken

Good Morning, Doctor Toon

Good morning to who have been on and soon will or not been seen in a while:* ♠Lonewolf♠, Little sister , MontanaLady, Frankr, , hopeandjoy2,Woodyeye, Johanan, Lewreader & RwB, Grog, Doctor Toon, Dry, Rmom, LuvH8, The Sojourner, Love&PieceJoy,PearlandPeach, MisngNOLA, aircraft-engineer ,yyyguy, Carmy*

Rainy morning and day. Read my book last night and winding down to last few chapters the story is picking up speed again.

Good Morning, Tribe!

Late start this morning.

Usually no one is on at this time of morning and when I finally get on late evening.

Little Sister reason I asked about CA that state get fairly dry since by the coast. Too many fires. Our weather system comes from CO and yor too far from there to affect us.

Good Morning, ♠Lonewolf♠ & Kab

There was a local movie theater was in business due to low attendance closed for a few years. A Pastor and flock bought the building and turning it into a church. This is mall strip. We stopped going to movies a long time ago. Now one can mail order movies.

Is anyone else having trouble with the toon pictures here at Gocomics?

Mine are good…so far.

I’ll be back later. Have a great day all!

P&L

Reboot?

Good Morning, EMET

Don’t call me late for Beer

Pop

I can’t believe no one’s brought that up before, Grog. they could call us Spamburners

GM Doc I’m not sure if todays theaters need to see every movie, but when movies were packaged in multiple reels and the theater used 2 projectors, they would have to watch them to find the markers (usually one or two circles in the upper right hand corner of the screen) for switching projectors.

whew! Ok, there’s my knowledge impartment for the day. BBL

Poof

Out of Beer?

Good Morning, LuvH8

Are you ever out of chocolate?

That is probably as silly a question as am I ever out of beer.

Bite your tongue, LuvH8

How are you?

EMET Noooooooo. Not the Schlitz

I’m always out of Schlitz. But I always try to keep supplies of Bud, Fosters, Blue & Heineken around.

And no lite beer either.

I keep the Schlitz right next to the Droobs for company, Grog. They only drop by once without bringing at least a 6 after that.

I know that there is a Blechy or ten headed our way.

I have been out of both chocolate and coffee before. It is very unsafe for those around me.

Good Morning, Sir Lew, Johanan, Runs With Beer, Grog, Doc T, Lonewolf, A Little Sharper U, Kab and everyone.

Run From Beer, I am tired this morning. I think I should go back to sleep before I have to wake up.

Sleep fast. Luv

Guess she’s too tired toBlechy This AM Grog

Get some rest, LuvH8

@A Little Sharper U: That’s quite a bit more than I think I want to deal with on this forum - much of what you say (even though I agree with it) is so far off the playing field around here that I think I’d only add to the MEGO Syndrome you probably induce in most mortals.

(MEGO, of course, stands for My Eyes Glaze Over. If can also, if you choose, stand for ME GO, which is what I will do now.)

Good Night Everyone.

Glad to hear I’m not mortal, Johanan. ‘course being able to read at 400 wpm helps.

Hey Doc…. hope you caught my answer on comment pg1

≡≡ P O P ! ≡≡ ♪☼ Good Morning TRIBE! ☼♪

Hello to all those here!

I’ll have huevo rancheros, potato cakes, fried okra, German chocolate fudge cake and Doc’s World Famous Nuclear Coffee.

Good Morning, Sojourner

Good Morning Grog and Doctor Toon.

I’m doing a little test of Photobucket to see if I can spare my personal Web site’s bandwith… if you see an image then you know I’ve done it right. If so, then I’ll create a folder on Photobucket for my avatars…

Hi Johanan.

Good Morning, Tribe, including, but not (ever) limited to: Grog, Runs with Beer, LuvH8, Sharper U, Kab, Johanan, & Sojo.

Let’s see: *tater tots. *a couple of kolaches *crispy fried bacon and two soft boiled eggs. *orange and apple. And a pluot, if they are ripe *V8 vegetable juice *Special - Big Sister’s Nuclear Coffee Fudge Explosion Delight.

Hmm. looks like a breakfast. I’ll have it!

RwB, that is so cool!

Honestly, I have no idea what my reading speed is, inasmuch as I can skim whole pages at a time given the need and the right kind of material. Presumably “reading speed” means that one actually takes the time to READ something. :))

A fair test for me would be in a second language, such as biblical Hebrew narrative. Then I have to focus on every word, instead of relying on my ENFP-style contextualization ability. (In some familiar texts, even then I start switching over to skimming. Ridiculous. Sometimes we outsmart ourselves.)

OK, another avatar, this time from Photobucket (now that I finally figured out what kind of link I need to use - for some reason I couldn’t get the system to work yesterday):. Then, as much as time permits, I need to go back and redo my avatars on GoComics elsewhere…

Hi bmonk.

Kewl johanan A brain button. i need one of those. morning Sojo bmonk Same warning I gave MontanaLady don’t light the fuse on that fudge explosion, unless you’re outside the tent.

But why does the Fudge Explosion come in a tube with a stick to put in the ground?

Outside the tent….outside the tent…..

Hi RwB.

See you later Doc.

Good Morning, bmonk

Sleep fast Doc

This is a repeat for one of our readers’ sake (I blush to say that I forget just which one), inasmuch as many of my prior links will now be obsolete and broken thanks to my removing the source files from my Web site. This one comes from Photobucket, as will all others from now on.

Oh yeah, this is for Grog, to replace a broken link:

Johanan, I’ll look at your pics tonight. I can’t see them on my office computer. But at least I can see the strips!

Fair enough. See how this animation strikes your fancy (I just put in a new folder for my 459 animations and counting, too)…

Good “morning” to ALL!!

Hope I’m not too lake for breakfast. Gimme a pig foot and a bottle of beer.

JOHANAN: You’re keeping me busy today. Firstly I will spend hours pondering all the questions you posed.

Secondly when you bragged about your animation collection it sent me scurrying to count count the items in my GIF folder (830 all animated gifs no flash).

Wait! 831! I just added a spinning chess piece.

I guess I’ll start reading the funnies (at 2:00pm!) while I wait for my pig foot.

Good Afternoon, Frankr

Hi Frankr.

Hi EMET.

Many years ago when I gave up drinking, I realized that beer has about 150 calories a bottle x24= oh, you do the math. It’s a lot of calories per day lost from my nutrition. I discovered Reese’s Peanut Butter cups could replace these lost carbohydrates. They are cheapest in 8 packs and can be found on sale in the supermarket, chain drugstore, K or Wall Mart. I like to share my knowledge with humanity, especially about health. You’re welcome..

Good afternoon, Tribsters!

I am so tired already and I still have pool league to go to tonight.

Hi Lewreader.

Hi ♠Lonewolf♠ - Pool league should wake you up!

Hi, Sojo. You’re probably right. That’s what Wolfangil says. LOL

Lewreader, about once a year I will do both - but not at the same time. But I always make sure to buy a few extra Halloween treats so that I have a few peanutbutter cups to myself. It’s an annual thing only.

Good afternoon, or early evening everyone. :-)

Hi Little Sister.

Hi Sojo

That’s a colorful avatar LittleSister.

Thank you :-)

Afternoon, Little Sister. Are you in school yet?

I’ll be back on in a little while. I have things to do.

Little Sister I like your new avatar. Less violent.

Good evening everyone. I had one slow afternoon. Dept I worked at got caught in this years old files found where someone did something they shouldn’t do. Complained my super about it and guilty one spoke up. Thought they have On-base scanning up but not missed one important icon. Then computer tech people had to work on scanners. So still have to wait. Thanks I forced that all on you.

I too notice your icon Little Sister pretty cool. Little 10 week old male puppy daughter is getting adjusted on how to keep him busy and bathroom breaks. Also trying to make sure little girl 4 years old doesn’t feel left out.

Hi Kab.

Good evening The Sojourner how has you day been? I hope you also enjoyed nice cool weather.

Kab - My day has been fine!

Little Sister How bright and happy-looking are those Lilies…. I like the renewal it symbolizes!

Sorry I haven’t taken time to read what hast been scripted but I am H U N G E R Y AFTER MY SWIM AEROBICS!! Bring on the stack of pancakes,….chomp! Ahhhhhh now for some of Doc’s wake-me-up-and-revive-me COFFEE.

HI to all triberoos I will read your comments shortly.

With apologies to GROG It’s the cool weather.

Hi hopeandjoy2.

Hi Sojo

LuvH8 Yes, I knew you would look and screech…a pretty spooky sight I hope to never see again!!!! Not you, L8, the clown babies)

Now I must continue my reading…

Good evening everyone!

Getting ready for pool now. How’s everyone doing today?

My doing fine ♠Lonewolf♠., Hope your not to tired for pool! :-)

Lonewolf enjoy your evening of pool.

Thank you all for your lovely comments. I wanted to find an avatar that should symbolize what a Little Sister should be all about.

bmonk I start school after this week is over, on August 30th.

Have a good time at pool Big Brother.

Hi Kab, Lil’ Sis & Sojo!.

Thank you for the well wishes! :^)

Nice avatar, Lil’ Sis!

Hey Little Sister then that icon is suppose to make you very nice. I missed out where locally started 5th of August.

Gotta run………….Have a great evening!

P&L

Lonewolf

Be wary of flying balls.

Have a good night at pool ♠Lonewolf♠ .

Hi LuvH8.

Lonewolf You are not going IN the pool with beach balls and noodles but rather finding a table with cue sticks and balls to be put into pockets, and PLAYING pool, I gather. Have fun!!

I am waterlogged!!

Hello hopeandjoy2 I think I like your version sound better with beach balls and lighter.

Yes of course Sister Kab, I liked the other avatar as well, but I got to thinking last night before the turnover, about how I should present myself.

Thanks for new name.

Hello Bmonk, Little Sister, Sojo, Sister Kab, Grog, Runs With Beer, ALSU, Johanan, HopeAndJoy2 and Everyone!

Yes! Pool in the swimming pool. Rubber Duckie is ready.

Hello Big Sister. :-)

Your welcome Sister Kab :-)

Hi! Did everyone bring something? I brought the (water) balloons. and streamers.

Oh I found some streamers and canon too.

I found some glop in a kiddie’s pool.

Sister Kab, did you bring the chocolate cubcakes? (wink, wink)

HopeandJoy2, I hope you brought lots of pies?

Yes won’t take long.

Kiddie pool glop? Ewwww! What color is it? Can I see? Can I see?

You better hide it Big Sister

When is the event to take place?

Sorry about that. I had to feed my dogs.

What kind of music should we play.

I understand that my daughter does that with her two. Hey Big sister this is your idea where are you. I realize this time of day usually people are eatting. I eat as soon as I changed when I got in.

Leave that up you younger ones. Just remember some laws have noise volumn to loud and neighbor’s will get mad.

I usually eat dinner around Nine o’clock at night.

I know that it is odd hours to eat.

That’s too late for me I’m fairly chunky and that would add more pounds then I care for.

I’m not chunky, but I do work out in the Gym.

Who all is involved? And again what day?

Aaagh. back soon. I will hide the glop. as soon as we are ready.

Knowing Big Sister, she had to take care of a few things and probably run some errands.

I walk in evenings but I have a exerciser in living room now not to impress with. I used to have an airdale but after the 4th one broke have this one. Kida of like running or closely resemblems bike riding. Only I stand and use arm control to move feet.

That’s why it’s so quite. How about if I try later? I’ve been reading my book in spurts. Since I don’t know how long later is.

It was like this last night. Way to quiet. Kinda’ creepy when nothing happens around here.

What time of day are you taking classes since you also have your job? So I guess it’s safe to take away that picture of glop. Should I assume Big Sister has put it away?

Hello Little Sister, Kab, LuvH8 & everyone else.

I finally made it.

Hi Grog.

You never know when LuvH8 will pop in.

Good to see you Grog if this doesn’t sound mean I usually go for walks at 7pm then catch up on tv. By then hubby has been on internet and when I get on most are off and ready for bed. Walking won’t be happening for too much longer as days are getting shorter.

Hi Grog How’s my cowboy doing today?

I am going to be put on the later shift at work so I’ll do college first then go to work afterwards.

Then when you finally get home when college starts kicking in more you’ll be busy with you studies. Not sure how many classes your taking each day, there will be a lot of work to be done. Several chapters per subject.

I’ve got a headache right now, Little Sister, but I hope it’ll start fading soon.

My work hours will most likely be cut, so that I can study or do my homework.

Take care of that headache.

That maybe nerves or blood vessels expanding real pain. Hope you taken pain meds. When that happens to me my heart is picking up and my vessels are expanding. I take now Alieve to relieve the pain and then, yes I wear glasses, take my glasses off. I have bifocals since age 28. I don’t get near the headache’s I use to.

I just took some Advil.

My hours will not change on contract. 1-5pm. I’m not telling where I work at about Jr. college they won’t care. I hinted at the Admin Assist all she could say it will be hard. She never got her Bachelors but passed all required courses. And she is as high position as she wants to be. She pretty much runs the dept.

I would then go to bed early. When glasses came off felt like a spring releasing to my eyes.

I was working from 6 Am to 1 PM. But knowing that I am going into college, my boss will change my hours after this week.

You have a great boss. Where my daughter worked at Wally world wouldn’t work with her she was a cashier and told manager she was going to college. He never worked two weeks later and deer hiting her car minor damage except cost a lot for frame and headlight. She quite then went to college where she went at night time.

Tell big sister I try a little later going to catch some shows on tv I recorded before too late and bed time. I have a couple of things she is interested in. The rest just keep planning all catch up. I hope after I read comments if too late tonight I can add something you can read tomorrow.

I don’t like driving to and from at night.

She didn’t either but she likes sleeping in except when it comes to garage sales. Now she gets up early for her because of little Jr. small version of Godlen Retriever.

Have a good evening Kab.

I’ll let her know, Sister Kab. Have a great night and enjoy the TV and books. :-)

Little Sister, KAB, LuvH8 Don’t worry, I am prepared with all that I am responsible for. T’will be fun!!

Concerning the Pool: Water pool should be wonderful maybe better than water polo but I haven’t the slightest idea if this is what Lonewolf is doing…I doubt it.

GrogGlad you took pain med. Sip some water, have a cool cloth for your head (over your eyes) breath slowly and let your body relax…imagine you are in a lovely meadow or someplace you like and the breeze is very refreshing and the temp is perfect…and relax.

So watching The A-Team would be out hopeandjoy?

LuvH8I have lots of taffy, if needed, and a trampoline for bouncing and cheering. Maybe we could add a beachball or two but they may be too big….

Excellent ! :-)

Big Brother, Lonewolf does Billiards, which is another term for pool.

GROG Not if it makes you relaxed…you can’t follow the storyline with your eyes closed???? (tee-hee)

The nurse is now out. Goodnight/good morning all.

9:00 California time is midnight here. Right?

Goodnight hopeandjoy2.

I find blowing things up very relaxing.

Are you in the east, Frankr? Like Boston or New York? If so, yes.

Yes that is very entertaining, Big Sister.

Well see…. everyone is leaving. Now I be sad ) :

I know! I have something happy!

I thought you might, LuvH8!

Happy Dance!!!

“Hee hee!” I LUV it Big Sister.

Well I hate to be a party pooper after seemingly just getting here, but I think one of the best things I can do is to get off the computer.

Have fun, Big Sister & Little Sister, but…..try to be good!

Trampoline I like it!

Woo-Hoo! Look at me bounce up and down. :-)

Good night Grog :-)

If you live back East then yes Frankr.

Whereabouts you from, if I may ask?

Goodnight Grog.

You like to blow things up like Hank MacDougall (played by Frank Willard) on Everybody Loves Raymond LuvH8?

Can we Sojo Pretty please! ;-)

I promise we’ll do it outside the big top. tent.

Sojo ~ What?

I don’t ever remember anyone blowing things up. It has been a while and I haven’t seen many episodes though.

Little Sister - If you mean blow somthing up that’s fine with me!

You could always take Aleve.

LuvH8 - It was the episode when Pat MacDougall was caught smoking. She said she did it to relax then Hank admitted he liked to blow things up to relax. The MacDougalls were Robert Barones in-laws.

I missed that one Sojo.

It was one of the better episodes. Robert caught Pat smoking and to keep her secret he took the blame for smoking.

Hmm….. Nope! Didn’t see it. Maybe I am like Tim The Tool Man Taylor! I just try to make things bigger, faster, stronger, more until they just blow up! Boom!

That must have been hard on him.

It started with fireworks. Hank would take walks in the trees enjoying nature and then BOOM, he’d blow things up to relax. Sounds like you LuvH8!

It sounds like a good idea. Do you know how to make my own bombs?

LuvH8 - Start with Doc’s World Famous Nuclear Coffee. After that I can’t make a public comment. :-)

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

♪☼ P&L ☼♪ ≡≡ POOF! ≡≡

But Sojo! I still don’t know how to make a bomb!!!!!

Good Night, Pleasant Dreams ~ Wichita, right?

LuvH8 *NO BOMBS, PLEASE*

Bomb making! Sounds like fun.

I THOUGHT YOU WERE BLOWING UP BALLOONS?

No noise now, GROG has a headache, LuvH8

I will not check in again, probably, so pleasant whatever is left of the day.

(Hee hee hee hee ha ha haaaa ha ha heee hee heeee!)

Oh, Nooooo.

Watch the night erupt in pretty glowing lights.

Is there any gunpowder?

Good evening ladies. I don’t know about The Sojourner sometimes I think Wichita ought to be blown up for job market slump. Finished with my show won’t be on too much longer letting my hair dry then bed. I took a shower earlier. Big Sister If you want to blow up something I found a confetti canyon.

Is it safe to take glop pool out? I guess everyone has what they need? Cupcakes with extra goodies ready. What date is needed? If you see this I will check later. This isn’t working very good on communication after 10pm here.

Thanks for the bomb gif LuvH8.

Yes, Little Sister, I’m from “back east”.

New England to be slightly more specific.

Lewreader territory.

@Frankr: Responding to something you said earlier - my count of animations wasn’t meant to be a brag. Consider it a statement of awe by someone who isn’t a graphic artist of any sort by profession (or even serious hobby) who has no business having even 459 animations, let alone the nearly 900 you have.

I was just awed by finding out how many I actually had. My Eyes Glazed Over when i read the number you have.

You’re welcome to beg, borrow or steal any others I have if they’re useful to you… I happen to be fond of that spinning knight myself.

Johanan: I certainly didn’t mean to use the word “bragged” in a pejorative way. I had never counted mine until today and had no idea there were that many.

Thanks for the link, I already “stole” a bunch of yours.

Mine are all on my hard drive, not on line and so not as easy to share or post here at GoComics (I know LuvH8 would tell me to get a PhotoBucket account already and maybe I’ll do that soon

Ah! A confetti canon that could work. Yes! Now let’s see…………….

Frankr if you get a photobucket account Let us all know, and you’ll have followers before you know it.

Hmm…I don’t believe I’ve ever had followers before…

Yes, and then you can put up explosions like this one from Pibgorn:

I remember that one. :-)

Good evening friends!

Is anyone stil around??