Arlo and Janis by Jimmy Johnson for September 29, 2020

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    chief tommy  about 4 years ago

    what?

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    Da'Dad  about 4 years ago

    My take is the menus are flying, but Arlo’s summation still confuses me.

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    fathergod  about 4 years ago

    All I know is I read comics to escape the problems in the real world. I’m gonna take a pass on this comic for awhile I guess

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    Out of the Past  about 4 years ago

    If you gotta explain it… . Actually, I got it. It was okay.

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    JB10000Lakes  about 4 years ago

    No kids sit in the bar. (I’m assuming it’s kids in the ‘dining area’ making the planes)

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    shorzy  about 4 years ago

    Gathering places are still the high risk areas…like healthcare workers…

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    Michael G.  about 4 years ago

    I’m amazed that the kids seated in my local restaurant’s tent have been remarkably well behaved.

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    Sweetwater  about 4 years ago

    I believe it’s simply that he doesn’t want an unexpected paper airplane from the bar interrupting their dinner in the dining room so he’d rather be eating in the “launching area”

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    HappyDog/ᵀʳʸ ᴮᵒᶻᵒ ⁴ ᵗʰᵉ ᶠᵘⁿ ᵒᶠ ᶦᵗ Premium Member about 4 years ago
    The “kid theory” is the best one I’ve heard. Anyway, we always prefer sitting at the bar for dinner. The service is quicker and conversion with others is more likely. And, no kids.
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    dv1093  about 4 years ago

    OK, just “What???”

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    hk Premium Member about 4 years ago

    More people get covid sitting in a bar than in a diner.

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    jruckman  about 4 years ago

    Must be at Bertha’s Mussells…

    “…you can eat them in the dining room,you can eat them at the bar…”

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    trainnut1956  about 4 years ago

    It’s a paraphrase from LBJ. When asked why he didn’t fire J. Edgar Hoover, LBJ said he’d rather have him inside the tent pissing out than outside the tent pissing in.

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    banjinshiju  about 4 years ago

    I would rather sit in the dinning area. People under the influence are more likely to ignore social distancing and wearing masks.

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    DCBakerEsq  about 4 years ago

    I prefer to drink in the tent I set up in the backyard. Easier to social distance.

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    axe-grinder  about 4 years ago

    Has this quote been pointed out yet: “It’s probably better to have him inside the tent pissing out, than outside the tent pissing in.”

    US President Lyndon Johnson, regarding FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover, as quoted in The New York Times (31 October 1971)

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    jr1234  about 4 years ago

    No one is allowed to sit at the bar. They have signs all over them.

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    Night-Gaunt49[Bozo is Boffo]  about 4 years ago

    The A/c blows the virus in nano droplets along the air stream in the restaurant.

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    admiree2  about 4 years ago

    Just be careful in the bar. Some under the influence do not care where they let it go…inside or out.

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    donwestonmysteries  about 4 years ago

    I don’t think JJ even knows what this means.

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    TennesseeFran  about 4 years ago

    I hate to see them going to eat indoors. Always thought A&J were sensible people. So maybe tomorrow they will have second thoughts and we’ll see them sitting in a park eating take out.

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    MartinPerry1  about 4 years ago

    Drunks don’t know social distancing. Go figure.

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    Da'Dad  about 4 years ago

    If you’re still scratching your head on this one, the answer from Cozmik Cowboy was buried in the replies to my initial question. For your convenience I’ll insert it here:

    “Pitching” is not the actual word (thus the airplane to allow adjustment for a “family” audience); when explaining an unsavory metaphorical bedmate, it is said “better to have them inside the tent [urinating] out than outside the tent [urinating] in”. Thus, better to be with the drunks, behind their missiles, than to be their target.

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    mafastore  about 4 years ago

    Husband would really eat in one of the places we used to eat – but knows it too big a risk for us. I have offered to take out from Wendys (we used to eat – the same – lunch there daily and dinner on Saturday night – we are on major budget) and we did so twice for lunch when eat in stopped, but the reason it was only twice is that it bothered him they did not have masks or gloves on, so he won’t. He thought about the Asian buffet we went to as it open again IF they were serving the food at the bars and one was not touching not the serving pieces – but they seem to have switched to Cajun, although their coupons still say Chinese buffet,and they don’t reply to emails or Facebook posts and one has to telephone at the limited times they are open and sit on hold without speaking to anyone so we cannot find out. I myself ALWAYS prefer to eat home and am having a great time with that part of the situation.

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