Big Top by Rob Harrell for November 09, 2010

Good Morning, Tribeandall

Breakfast menu to follow…………………………….

Breakfast Menu:

Three egg omelets. Hash brown casserole Sausage patties or links Smoked bacon Blueberry pancakes with fresh blueberries French toast Assorted pastries Pop Tarts Selected ice creams & ice cream floats! Cold KFC Root beer or PEPSI Assorted juices Bloody Mary’s COKEY COLA Johanan’s CocoMocha Doc’s World Famous Nuclear Coffee Chocolate/White milk Chocolate cake

Enjoy!

Good Morning ♠Lonewolf♠ - I’ll have blueberry pancakes with smoked bacon please.

Good Morning, Sojo & Zuhlamon.

Your orders are up. Seconds are available on the buffet table.

Hello Zuhlamon!

Thank you ♠Lonewolf♠!

You’re welcome Sojo.

Time for my zzzzzz’s.

Rest well tonight ♠Lonewolf♠.

♪ P&L ♪ ≡≡ POOF! ≡≡

Good Night, Sojo.

Just Pop tarts and a Coca cola for me.

Sorry Dusty, Unless the game is properly rated, giving warning of inappropriate material, I’m sticking with the angry mothers.

Hello and good morning everyone. :-)

Good Morning, Lil’ Sister.

Your order is ready. Enjoy!

Thank you Big Brother. :-)

Good night.

Your welcome. Good Night, Lil’ Sister

It is a little late for the vivid pinks. I did find this.  

Thank you everyone for your positive thoughts, I think they helped more than you can have imagined.

Bmonk, I just drink room temperature coffee. I also drink pop from a can. I am a heathen in several ways.

Good morning, everyone!

Yes, Doctor Toon, in my opinion you should be. Sometimes ignorance really is bliss.

OK, I’ve just done the cartoon run and I’m out of here. The Boss will be here any minute. So we’ll have the usual CocoMocha plus the addition I’ve been having lately. a scoop of Godiva Belgian Chocolate ice cream.

After that, consider us gone for the day. Expect me when you see me, as Gandalf the Grey once said.

Good Morning, ♠Lonewolf♠, Sojourner, Zuhlaman. Little Sister, Luv Is What You Want It To Be, Doctor Toon & Johanan.

Good Morning Doc, Grog, Johanan & LuvH8.

I’d love some cold KFC right now, ♠Lonewolf♠. It’s one of those things that I just seem to be in the mood for.

You can have all you want, Grog. Enjoy!

Has anyone seen Lewreader?

Scratch that last post. I just saw him at 2C&C.

LONEWOLF as usual your breakfast looks great but unfortunately I now officially on my strict diet. No excuses, no rationalizations, no little green men from Mars made me eat it. I also quit smoking yesterday so I’m Happy, Happy, Happy. Even the cats have retreated.

I anyone would care to learn some language not commonly heard on TV or polite websites, my physical address is somewhere in Hades. Come on down! I may have a few choice tidbits to say about you, your ancestors, your elected official, your geographic location and everything else I can think about because you are not suffering like me! Please bring breakable items as I am running out.

Morning TRIBE! One more person mails me Sunday’s Wizard of Id and we are going to find just how far “justified” goes..

Good Morning, Lewreader.

I’ll now give you plenty of distance and hopefully eat my KFC in peace.

Good Morning, Lewreader. Good to see you out and about, sir!

I promised James a ride this morning. Then I am off to work the system on another wonderful day here in the Midwest.

Have a great day everyone!

P&L

You too, ♠Lonewolf♠

Good morning all. LW can I get a 3 egg omelet, smoked bacon, 4 cold KFC chickens and a Cokey Cola please?

Good Morning, MisngNOLA

Hi, tribe! Wish me well - I’ve got to meet with all my siblings this morning at my sister’s. Then we all meet at the lawyer’s office this afternoon. At least Mom’s pastor will be there too, so I hope that will help! (The trust names my parents’ church as a beneficiary.) Even though I’m the trustee, being the baby of the family means it is hard for my older siblings to let go of their birth order tendancies when we get together.

Oh, hope&joy - If you don’t like to refer to your husband as Hubby, you could go for DH, I’ve seen that as a commonly used internet acronym. Stands for Dear Husband, Darling Husband, or (Mendasock) Husband. See y’all later - I hope!

Good Morning, EVERYONE!

What a glorious day! I got the computer to work again!!!! These bleeep viruses just don’t want to DIE!!!!

Can I send them over to SirLew in Hades?

but, for now, I can communicate with the outside world. Let’s see if it lasts for more than a few minutes!

Good Morning, Rmom & MontanaLady

Good luck, Rmom

Morning All!

Morning, Digital Frog

POP Good Morning TRIBEANDALL and Grog!

Hidden features of this type offend just about everyone.

@LuvH8 I missed your post last night, but anytime you need good thoughts, just reach out and take some of mine. They’ll be there for you.

MLady Are they the ones with pop ups that say your computer is infected and you need to buy this software to get rid of them?

If anyone wants to know how GC has gotten rid of the unwanted ads, check out Argyle Sweater and the Mod comment.

Monday’s still hanging around, and Tuesday’s not looking much better, so TTFN

(((TRIBE))) Pooph

Good Morning,

Runs With Beer!

≡≡ P O P ! ≡≡ ♪ Good Morning TRIBE! ♪

Hello to all those here!

Good Morning Doctor Toon!

Good Morning, Sojourner

Good Morning Grog.

Sleep well, Doc

Have a good sleep Doctor Toon.

Thank you Runs With Beer, I will mentally count on you for continued positive thoughts. : )

Sir Lew, didn’t you quit smoking a couple weeks ago? I feel remiss in not keeping up. Oh Dear! I am sorry. I guess it does give you a legitimate reason to direct some of your grumpiness at me. But then again I don’t want to nag. You have my sympathy and support. I think I quit smoking about seven times.

Good Morning Luv Is Angelic!

I think it was Mark Twain that said quiting smoking was easy as he had done it a thousand times.

Good Morning, Luv Is What You Want It To Be

Oh! I was only counting times I managed to go more than three days without a cigarette. My biggest help was always finding another hand mouth fixation for a while and then movement or exercise for anxiety. I have gone through a lot of straws.

Good Morning Sojo & Grog

or maybe Good Night???? Hmmm……

Did you try lighting them?

Only a couple.

I can only imagine what that smelled like.

Wow - never use plus signs in the comment box…..

++++

Never say never.

The only thing different was plus signs and my comments were2 screens long.

I’m sure there’s a good reason for that, RwB, but I don’t see it.

+

LEt me try again ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

OK puter hates me

It’s just acting up like ours often do, RwB.

You have now entered The Twilight Zone.

MAybe I can get you to do a loong distance

SWOT

on it

Time to run … . +thoughts+ Luv have a great rest of your day

Grog! PLAY NICE - BE SAFE (((((TRIBE))))) POOPH!

Hello RwB! - ++++++

Have a good rest of the day, RwB

Good afternoon everyone!

I may be done with my day already. I’ll know in about 45 minutes. If I get a call from one of customers, I have more work. If they don’t call by 3:15, I am done! (Fingers & toes crossed!)

Hello ♠Lonewolf♠ - Fingers and toes crossed to be done or have more work and money?

Hi, Sojo!

Today, I’ll take the “work is done’ choice. I need to go to pool tonight regardless if I am tired or not. I can get some rest in before I go if I am done now. :^)

♠Lonewolf♠ - I hope your done then! :-)

Hi ♠Lonewolf♠. Maybe you can snooze through the call, if it comes.

Grog, it is a very good customer of mine and I want to do the work if they call. It’s a water pump & belt replacement on a GM 3.4L engine. Should take about an hour to an hour and a half.

Good later afternoon to all I can’t believe I am just getting online and now I will leave and won’t be back until near bedtime!! I will catch us with your comments then!

Swish away

Time for me to head home.

LUV Thanks for the suggestion of the oral relacement. I personally am trying to keep my mouth shut. You cannot believe how the world has bloomed with idiots, clowns, morons and cretains in the last 48 hours. I am biting my lip to stop from telling them their parents were obviously related by more than marridge. And I cannot believe how much I have to bite my tongue at home wanting to tell that sweet woman that I love that she is on the evolutionary scale close to a tadpole.

Perhaps someone should duct tape me to a chair (not forgetting the mouth) for the next 48 hours. The world might be a better place and I may not break any major laws. Rah Rah Rah! I’m not correcting typos either. I hate the world!

Hello Lewreader! - Change isn’t easy. (Or more people would do it!)

Good afternoon once again!

Customer did call, but only to go on an extended test drive to attempt to determine a noise they have been hearing. Friday we get the water pump & belt done and check the hub bearings to see if they are making the noises.

@Luv Is Angelic said, about 12 cuppas ago

Bmonk, I just drink room temperature coffee. I also drink pop from a can. I am a heathen in several ways.

I just thought you might like it warmer–or colder (iced coffee, which some people like, I’m told) but not burned…

Good afternoon once again ♠Lonewolf♠. :-)

Hello bmonk!

Hmm! I thought I posted this a.m., but now it seems MIA.

so,

GOOD AFTERNOON, Tribe!

Hi, Bmonk!

The breakfast is gone as usual, but I think I know by who & why. Oh well.

How is everyone doing? I need to get ready for pool.

♠Lonewolf♠ - I’m doing fine, have a meeting soon but will be back later. Have a good night at pool!

Yeah, some trolls like to eat the whole thing, apparently…

Just checked Old Faithful and saw a big eruption! Aren’t web cams great?

I hope you have a good evening, Sojo.

I hear you, Bmonk!

Thanks ♠Lonewolf♠ - I will.

BBL

POOF!

Good evening, Tribe. I’m back in the saddle again.

I don’t recall seeing a comment by you, bmonk, otherwise I would have greeted along with everyone else this morning.

Hi again, Grog!

I hope she who must be obeyed isn’t reading any of your posts, Lewreader. I can relate, but I stopped trying to quit long ago.

Hi, grog–maybe something in the computer ate the comment. Or I was hallucinating. Or who knows?

bmonk, there have been a number of times I thought I posted a comment here (or other strips) but actually hit the back button (to my comic links) instead of the post comment button. Sometimes, I even hit refresh instead, but I notice when that happens.

I like to check behind the computer in case maybe the cord to the internet was loose and it spurted out back there rather than upload against the pressure of verbiage…

Hi, tribe! Wolfie - The breakfast menu is up now. I wonder what happened? I survived meeting with my siblings and the lawyer. Whew! Am I glad that’s over! All that’s left is for the CPA to do the tax return, and that’s not near as stressful for me.

Hi, Rmom. I wonder what happened. Strange!

Congrats Rmom!!

Sir Lew, it sounds like you are just entering the two hardest days of quitting smoking. Tell the one you love that you love her very much, but it is not rational for her to expect you to be remotely civil in the next two days.

Keep your shoes and coat at the ready for emergency walks. Sometimes exercise helps. Vitamin C actually helps curb cravings so Orange or apple juice is good to have around. Coffee increases cravings but going without that at the same time……. maybe not. Avoid food with strong or intense flavors because they increase cravings. You can look for relatively inexpensive breakables …. they actually have some Good Wills that sell by the pound. You could set up a temporary email account and try to track down Joe, you could tell him about his ancestors. (tries to look innocent while giggling)

Hi, Rmom & LuvH8

Good to see the menu back - strange but still good

Good Evening Everyone

Hi, LuvH8.

I’m headed out to pool. Catch y’all later. Have fun!

P&L

Good Luck Lonewolf! Careful with the stick thingy, don’t knock in anyone else’s balls for them.

Hello Grog

Bmonk, I actually drink all kinds of temeratures of coffee. I have even been known to make teenagers iced mocha milkshakes on weekends.

Good luck at pool, Wolfie! Luv - giggle - between your suggestion to Sir Lew to track down Joe and your admonition to Wolfie to not knock anyone else’s balls, you’re brightening my evening. SNERK! (I guess that’s what happens to my mind when I’m surrounded by males all the time.) Grog - I see you’ve survived another day!

Today was a quiet day, Rmom. My boss was in Dallas for the day and I was able to catch up on some things and still make the occasional comments here.

But I want to get as much as I can done. I have Monday and Tuesday off and the whole of the Thanksgiving week-end.

I’ll likeley be doing something similar at Christmas since I still have a fair number of days left (9 after my November days).

Grog - Sounds like a good day. My hubby (and his boss) wishes he could stay at his desk and get his work done. But right now he’s helping out the quality lab, as there’s only one other person who knows how to run the precision measuring equipment, and not nearly as well (or quick) as my hubby.

I wish my boss would go away more often. :-)

Good Evening Rmom

Grog - I can understand that feeling! My hubby doesn’t really mind his boss or his boss’s boss being there, especially if he has to cover for them if they’re gone. Unfortunately, a lot of the shop personnel got used to asking him whenever they had a question before his/their boss got hired, and they still come to my hubby, instead of their boss. At least know he can pretend he doesn’t know, instead of pretending that he does know!

Hi, Luv! - How’s it going with Gma?

Gma is ……. ummmm….. Did you like the leaves? I will try to find some more pink ones we did actually have some almost as pink as the ones in Sojo’s picture.

Luv - The pink leaves were pretty! My redbud’s blossoms are a lovely lavender, but that happens in the spring. I took some pictures today that I hope are pretty of trees with fall colors. (It was hard to see the LCD screen outside and I haven’t downloaded them yet.) The trees were just down the street from my sister’s house, and quite colorful.

I hope I remember to take pictures next year, I should look for some. I am not sure what kinds of trees and bushes we have that turn pink. I don’t remember it from childhood either. It is unreal and magical at the same time. Especially right after a rain when the sun is shining.

Well I think I should now call it a night.

Good Night Tribeandall!

Good night, Grog! Doc - Good to see you! Luv - If it weren’t for my pictures, my memories would be considerably less.

POP!

Does this mean my memories will be out of focus? (I am so not good with pictures)

Good Night Grog

Hello Luv Is Angelic!

Hi, Sojo! Not necessarily, Luv. The pictures just help me to recall the event and details that otherwise would remain forgotten.

Hello Rmom - Glad to hear it’s about finished.

Me too, Sojo, me too! I’ve got lots of photo albums to go through and scan still. I just picked up a couple tubs of them that my sister had stored at her house. I think she’s got a couple more tubs in her basement. But I am so glad to have the legal stuff done, so my siblings will quit acting like sharks out for blood. Now that they’ve got all the money that’s coming to them, they won’t be pressuring me so much. Of course, knowing my siblings (especially my sister) they’ll find something else.

LOL

Yeah, now my sister is on my case, telling me I should complain that the cemetery hasn’t got grass growing on Mom’s grave. I think she can complain directly, just as well as I can, so I don’t know why she thinks I need to be the one to do it. I know! - she’s always had staff, and she thinks I’m on hers. But since I’ve paid everything we owe them, the only recourse I could do would be to sue them, and I’ll sneak out there and plant the stupid grass before I do that.

LOL

Can’t you just imagine me sneaking in a cemetery with grass seed and a jug of water? Especially since it is just north of WSU. But knowing how much a lawyer costs, that’s how I’d handle it!

Anyway, Halloween is over now.

True, but that section of town isn’t a place I want to be after dark, if I can help it. Guess I might be able to do it in broad daylight and get away with it, but you just never know. Especially because my parents’ graves are pretty close to Hillside.

Tell her to plant the grass, tell her that the policy is for the most beautiful child to plant the grass so that it eternally keeps the loved one coverd in both beauty and warmth. (crosses fingers while checking for lightening)

Luv - I already suggested that my sister plant the grass. After all, she’s got the green thumb, mine is black. But she’s big on complaining when people don’t do what they should, instead of just forgiving them. I’ve told my hubby & kids that under no circumstances is my sister to be my advocate if I’m in the hospital or anything. She can be a real witch, and I’d rather people didn’t know we’re related when she’s that way.

Stupid freakin typos. I don’t like them. Rotten no good … fix three… anothet… thin next thing you know…. spent ten minutes ones trying to get it just right…….. stupid troll flaggers …. deleted …. rotten ….. no good …. and it isn’t the same.

—This rant dedicated to Sir Lew, may you remember you are not alone in your misery.

Luv - I hate doing typos too! I’ve been known to edit a post several times, just to get rid of all the problems I’ve made - not that I’d admit it or anything… trying to look innocent

Well, call once ask nicely about it. If nothing is done within a reasonable period (10 days?) and you want to do it yourself. Just walk right in like you have every right to plant it yourself. If anyone questions you, start crying uncontrollably and tell them how you just couldn’t stand the thought of your mother going through winter uncovered. If you don’t want to do it yourself tell your sister they are being unreasonable and have her make the manager cry.

Luv - I may just play the “losing my memory” card, and conveniently forget that my sister told me about it. Maybe that will buy me enough time for the cemetery to get around to do that. Guess I ought to check about April to see if anything is growing there, and then if it isn’t, I could throw some weeds or something to grow there. Hopefully she won’t visit the grave again until next Memorial Day.

Weeds? Weeds? (laughing uncontrollably) You don’t think that might not upset her more?

Dandelion seeds, if anyone asks you can tell them how your mother loooooved her dandelion wine.

Yes, I think you should forget she told you. For all you know it has already been done. No reason to fret over it. If she was really upset she would take care of it. I suggest waiting until spring, new grass might not make it through the winter anyway.

And the dandelions are eatable. Just in case.

Luv - LOL! There is not a person that knew my mom who would believe she loved wine - dandelion or not. My mom never drank alcohol. But I figure as windy as KS is, it is hard to keep weeds from growing, and they wouldn’t need watering like grass would. I guess I’ll worry about it next spring - if I remember. Don’t you think some sunflowers would look great?

Well, I need to head off to bed. Good night!

Good Night Rmom.

Good Night Rmom

I keep forgetting to try some early spring dandelion greens.

Me too, Rmom I have had a strange kind of day…not organized one bit but it is finished now. (claps hands)

The best part of my day was reading the comments here…I’m not sure what that means but good night to all who are still around, including Luv Wonder if Lew can get some sleep??? Wishing all a quiet night…no bumps, noises,or barking dogs.

Night Sojo just saw you were on and I took too long writing the first message so I missed Rmom and Luv anyway……

Good Night HopeandJoy.

I am here HopeandJoy, Good Night

Hope you have pleasant dreams.

Sojo!

You are looking very ummm…. handsome tonight.

Evening tribe. Sorry to post and run, but I value the friendship of those here, and the thoughts, prayers, karma, whatever.

My best friends son, and my son’s best friend (same person) is texting my son that he wants to commit suicide. Things are really tense right now…

Now my husbands friend is calling, and we have been worrying about the same from him for the past couple of weeks….

Not sure I’m going to get any sleep tonight.

Rmom - just caught some of your posts also. I will be praying for the situation with you and your sister to be resolved. (Maybe they’ll plant the grass in the next few days and you won’t have to worry any more…)

Ladyhawk, at least he is talking. That is a positive sign, believe it or not. It means that though he does feel that bad, he wants help. He wants to feel better. At the very least though they are going to want to talk to professionals.

Anyone can call      1-800-SUICIDE      1-800-273-TALK

You don’t have to be ready to kill yourself you can call just to talk or to get advice when you are worried about someone.

http://www.suicidepreventionlifeline.org/GetHelp/SuicideWarningSigns.aspx

Ladyhawk - My prayers will now be about this, not only for him but all of you as this effects everone involved.

In the meantime my advice:

Listen to what a person is saying, be sure you they understand what they mean, ask questions, rephrase what they said.

Never tell someone what they feel is wrong. Just because you don’t understand or it isn’t logical doesn’t make it wrong.

When talking to the person tell the truth. Don’t pretend to understand, if you don’t. You probably can’t make it all better, so tell them you will be there to help.

Oh, if you love the person, now might be a good time to mention it.