Arlo and Janis by Jimmy Johnson for July 12, 2015

Measure twice, cut once….

Can’t wait to read the translation on this one. He wanted a measuring tape and she brought him a hasp? I hope she catches up with him!

He cut it too short and she thought he had cut his finger from the way he yelled.

Robin is just waiting to happen.

Errm, she heard the circulah sawr, people.

fusilierJames 2:24

there is just something extra upsetting about hearing some scream when they are working with power tools.

The sawdust coming thru the open window on her clean,folded laundry and he’s complaining about faulty cut[measure] by him. Plus scaring her,after hearing the saw run.

This is a clear case of domestic intimidation. A wife threatening to beat her husband is unacceptable. Where is the outrage, where are the protest? What type of message are we sending our children? If Arlo was threatening violence against Janis, this strip would have been pulled already.

You all do understand that this is just a comic strip?

I scream or shriek, my hubby comes running, and it’s because either hurt myself, or there’s a huge hairy bug he needs to remove from my sight!

We DO know. Just because we don’t SAY it…its to frightening.

Once, while working on the roof, I screamed and threw my coat down past the window. Almost didn’t live through that one.

Glad for the translations, because I couldn’t figure out this strip almost at all…

Run Arlo!!

Gotta work that adrenaline out SOMEhow!

(“here”; you use your “ear” to “hear”)

Arlo’s rules for accuracy. Measure with a micrometer, mark with chalk, cut with an ax.

No…she’s attacking him because an object is shorter than it’s supposed to be.

Man, you’re hard on the poor woman!

Kinda just proves your point about why we think some of you are children, doesn’t it.

They call him lefty…

Things do happen. A guy I know was running his table saw in his summer home, and idly brushed his hand over the table to swipe off some sawdust. He thereby severed the tendons in a couple of fingers, ending his recreational playing of the ukulele.

Another man, who had built a summer home nearby, was using a drill to screw in a light-switch cover. Suddenly the drill made a screw in the cover catch on his ring, and he felt a sharp pain and saw a lot of blood. His wife brought him a towel to wrap up his hand, and they climbed into their car and headed for the hospital at the bottom of the mountain where they lived. Halfway down, he got up enough courage to look at his hand, and the ring finger was missing! (GROSSOUT ALERT:) His wife called a friend who lived nearby, and the friend went over a found the finger across the room from where the fellow had been working. Doctors later said that they could reattach the finger, but jt would be unusable, just a deadweight (so to speak). The man decided that he would do without it. He is 93 now, still drives, and no one ever thinks about that any more (except maybe him, now and then). ANYhow, things do happen.

I don’t get the meaning of this cartoon…

She knows he’s using a power saw, so when he hollers she figures there’s blood…but he’s just mad that he cut the board too short ! Then she decides “there WILL be blood!”

It takes a village to figure out this strip….

My husband loves to sneak up and scare me when I’m reading or focused on something. I scream and jump and then whack him one for making me jump out of my skin! Janis was worried that he had hurt himself and then when she realized he was just yelling in frustration and wasn’t hurt she was angry he was crying wolf. This isn’t a man woman thing at all. And like @djsabc said “you do realize this is just a comic strip?”

@John — a LOT of men are abusive if they get frightened that their wives/partners have been hurt — and they repeat it and repeat it and repeat it. After a while they don’t have to worry any more — she got sick of it and left…