Arlo and Janis by Jimmy Johnson for July 22, 2015

A moment of silence…

Careful, Arlo. The estrogen set takes this very seriously.

OH, the HORRORS….!!!

Men laugh at this but make a change in their favourite team (or beer brand) and hear the screams!

Every time I find a hair color I like, the next time I go to the store to get it, it’s been discontinued!

Snark don’t help.

Why can’t manufacturers do that? Why can’t they leave well enough alone? Either they “improve” something and totally ruin it, or take it off the market with no warning. Let me know something will be discontinued in 6 months and give me time to stalk up.

My favorite coffee has gone from being easily available, to only certain stores, to only on-line at Wal-Mart (ugh), to now only at Harris Tweeter. I live near Baltimore; Harris Tweeter is on the Eastern Shore.

Yeesh.

I have experienced this many times, but the two that hurt the most were when Tom’s Peanuts went out of business. No one makes as good a bag of peanuts.

The other is Old Spice. The new owners of the company were to cheap to continue the traditional glass bottles, and the original formula reacted badly with the cheap plastic substitute, so they changed the formula, which is a poor copy of traditional Old Spice.

I hate is when a company is actually ashamed of what made them famous.

I miss O-Cedar refills for a sponge mop on a wooden handle with a chromed metal squeezer. Come on, just give me the basic classic that’s been around since the 1940’s, if not earlier. Some things reach a level of perfection and simplicity, and there is no improving them. Any change is a step backward.GM has just about missed the boat on producing an updated retro ‘57 Chevy Bel Air Sport. The baby boomers who would be the main market are dying off or getting to the point where they can’t afford a new car in retirement.

Oh man, if I had a time machine I’d head straight for a grocery store.

I don’t know which is worse, when they discontinue your favorite make-up, or your favorite bra. I’ll bet Arlo would can the snark and show some genuine concern if “his girls” were affected.

Whatever happened to Bromoquinine??

That was an incredibly misleading and insensitive statement.

Any orthodox Jew (no “ultra” about it) will tell you that this prayer is not misogynistic (as you are implying) but refers entirely to the fact that Jewish men are obligated in a larger subset of the 613 commandments, and that this prayer is thanking God for the additional obligations.

And no, this not some kind of modern rationalization. This explanation goes all the way back to rabbis from the 15th century, and earlier.

She should check the Vermont Country Store – they carry all sort of things that were “discontinued” by their manufacturers. Apparently, they stocked up on ‘em, or found a generic manufacturer. Like Evening in Paris (It’s not 29¢ for a little bottle anymore) or Tangee lipstick.

Old Vermont Country Store is a wonderful resource for the stuff we used to love. Its the only place I can find Cashmere Bouquet bath soap bars and body powder. The only other powder that I can find that has talc in it is Johnson’s Baby Powder. Considering I am 70, I really don’t want to smell like a baby.

Amen! brother.

Right up there with Kennedy, King and the Challenger

Oh, my – Jimmy has opened a floodgate of memories and regrets here! I’ve often thought that some corporation ought to hire me as a marketing analysis expert; if I like something, they can cut to the chase and get rid of it before manufacturing it. How’s about a big refill bottle of SoftSoap blackberry and vanilla? (Found one once, and still pathetically look whenever I pass a SoftSoap display to see whether it has miraculously returned.) Then there’s lemongrass Village Naturals Milk Bath (for bathing the kids); Kellogg’s Triple Snack with the peanuts in it, and the blue giraffe logo (for me); that Italian dressing that’s been all corn syruped and carrageenaned up till it’s gaggalicious; some Naturalizers sandals that were perfect and – poof- disappeared; and countless others that, luckily for you, I won’t include in my rant. They get a product just perfect, but need to pay their designers and developers, so they “improve” or push out the old and usher in the new!

“ust like ultra orthodox Jewish men in their daily prayers, “I thank G_d that I was not born a woman.”.”.

I’m not Jewish, but it IS something to be happy about.Any woman will tell any man at length and great detail how rough it is to have been born female.

And I thank God that I was not born a man. The constant belittling of women and what they find important is only secondary to the whining about “male bashing” when they hear women make similar comments. If you’re “man enough” to dish it out, cupcake, you’d better be "man enough: to take it without being a crybaby about it…

Eddie Bauer used to sell an after-shave & a cologne called Adventurer. I loved how it smelled on me, as did my wife, & I received a lot of compliments about it.

I was very disappointed when they discontinued it.

Petula Clark brand is now discontinued…

I can sympathize with Janis. I wore the same brand of foundation for more than thirty years. I practically went into shock when it was discontinued!

Now Arlo’s in for a shock, because Janis is about to hunt down every bottle left on the shelves :)

I’ve had 2 times when I lost out on a favorite, my favorite anit-presperant went out of production, and my favorite cereal went out of production (does anyone else remember almound clusters?)

So you stand by your ethnic slur.You wouldn’t be so cavalier making such comments about African Americans, or Muslims, or the handicapped. But it’s OK to pick on Jews….