Big Top by Rob Harrell for April 12, 2010

Good Morning Everyone

Breakfast Menu

1) Rib eye steak & eggs (your choice, cheese available on request). 2) Eggs, your choice 3) Buttermilk pancakes 4) Choice of syrups 5) Bacon, sausage patties or links, ham. 6) Hash browns casserole. 7) Texas or wheat toast. 8) Asst flavored teas. 9) Asst flavored fruit juices. 10) Regular, Decaf or Doc’s nuclear coffee.

Enjoy all!

Just in case…………..

Good Morning, Marg!

Good morning TRIBE. While I may not be much of a breakfast eater I think that the Asst flavored fruit juices will be fine for me.

Thank you ♠Lonewolf♠.

Let Winks er! I mean Soul-Crushers initiation begin.

Good Morning Ladywolf

You’re welcome.

It won’t be your pleasure when you see Wink in action! Or not! LOL!

Wink is the man.

Call me Knife! That was some quick thinking on Wink’s part.

’Morning, Carmy, cleo & Dry!

Good Morning Knife!

I’ll have eggs over easy and pancakes. Thank You Lonewolf!

LOL, WoodEye! Good Morning, WoodEye, Dry, JFri and Cleo!

Good Morning Woodeye

You’re very welcome, sir!

Time to hit the horizontal position.

Bon nuit

P&L

Edited- :^) Thanks

Bon nuit

LONEWLF A more “manly” repast than most. Cholesterol be darned, I’ll take one of everything.

Soul Crusher will look so cute in leather and chains. Wait, I mean—–

Morning TRIBE! Anyone remember who used the mirror against Medusa? I’m having trouble with faces..

This may be the last time I listen to Bunnyface! I followed his advice and look what happened!

Hello and Good Night Sheik Yerbouti!

Good Morning Lewreader, do you come back and read the comments after your first posting?

Lonewolf ~ I want chocolate cake for breakfast. Is there no chocolate cake? It is made with eggs, make my eggs baked in a chocolate cake with chocolate frosting and little skull candies on top. Thank you!

Good Morning Everyone

Hello, Lewreader. Glad you enjoyed the the goodies!

Hello Sheik.

Hello, LuvH8.

One chocolate cake with a piece missing is up and ready to be eaten. Take as much as you want and enjoy!

Uh-oh! I did it again.

Good Morning Lonewolf.

Happy Dance!!!

Yummy! Chocolate Cake! Is there milk to go with it? I seem to have spit mine all over my computer screen.

Love the new avatar, LuvH8.

Yes, there is always milk.

Good Morning Tribe!

Good Morning, Lonewolf & LuvH8! LuvH8, I like the new avatar, too. What’s the reason for the change?

Lonewolf ~ Your avatar seems vaguely familiar.

It’s the old avatar, after spontaneous combustion. Good thing I’m a Grim Reaper, I should eventually recover.

Good Morning, Grog.

It seems FoxTrot has started the baseball jokes.

Why is a baseball team similar to a muffin?

Good Morning Grog.

I said a prayer and this happened.

I give up! Why?

Why is a baseball team similar to a muffin? They both depend on the batter.

The Team List for Baseball Jokes (so far):

The Boston Red Sox ~ rac0308 ~ Grog The Chicago Cubs ~ Lonewolf ~ Bunnyface’s sisters The Detroit Tigers ~ Johnnydoc5 The New York Yankees ~ Johnnydoc5 The Denver Colorado Rockies ~ Doctor Toon The Toronto Blue Jays ~ yyyguy The St. Louis Cardinals ~ yyyguy The Philadelphia Phillies ~ yyyguy The Toronto Maple Leafs ~ Shikamoo The Ogden Raptors ~ Shikamoo The Witchita Wingnuts ~ Rmom

Rmom is picking next week’s joke theme. (Somebody should let her know.)

Doesn’t cleo have Seattle?

He talks about that area a lot, Grog.

Grog, I believe Cleo said there were no local teams he wanted to support. But of course, anyone can add to the list.

Lonewolf, I’ll have one of those ribeyes, medium rare with two over easy and about half a pound of bacon. Got my own Cokey Cola. Good morning all.

What did Michael Jackson and the Washington Senators have in common? They both wore a glove on one hand which had no apparent use.

Good Morning MisngNOLA.

Good morning

TRIBE

Good Morning Doc T, How are you and your family doing today?

Good Morning, MisngNOLA, Doc & Serena!

Mornin all…. busy weekend and they haven’t let up today.

@Lew - 1st choice Hercules 2nd - Jason

Gotta go HAVE A GREAT DAY ALL!!!!

Good Morning Rac0308.

Your order is up MisngNOLA! Enjoy!

Good Morning Lewreader, Grog, MisngNOLA, Doc, serena and rac0308! It was Perseus that used his shield like a mirror to bring Medusa down. Off with her head!!

Good Morning, serena, MisngNOLA & Doctor Toon!

That picture is an eye-opener, LuvH8.

Good Morning Serenasakitty & rac0308!

Doc T, well at least she is getting some sleep now.

I was looking at your avatar and it reminded me. On Easter I told my nephew if he didn’t behave I would lick his forehead. He looked at me and said ”So that’s where my Dad got it!”

Morning All!

Good Morning, Rac0308, DFrog & Carmy!

Doc, it looks more like the cat is saying, neener neener!

Good Morning, DF!

Good mornng rac, Misng, serena, doc, and *Fellow Baby!

Good Morning Digital Frog

Good Night Everyone!

Good morning Carmy and Digital! You two snuck in there!

Good Morning, FELLOW BABY!

Good Night, LuvH8.

Good morning tribe.

At the hospital doing the hurry up and wait thing. Looks like Mom’s test will take place in about another 90 min or so.

Good Morning, Saucy

hang in there Saucy If you saw my post from yesterday, I’ve been there, so I sort of know how you’re feeling about now.

Good Morning All. The name Wink just doesn’t instill much fear.

Yes, the Seattle Mariners should definitely be on that list. They are a joke, but not a funny one.

Doc Good Morning. I loved your comment about Soul Crusher. LOL

Good Morning, cleo.

Good Morning, (((((Saucy & Saucy’s Mom))))).

Good Morning, Cleo

Good Morning, DFrog.

Have a good rest, LuvH8.

Saucy, good thoughts & prayers headed your way!

Doc, I’ll second Cleo about the soul-crusher, funny stuff. Sorry it happened though. I think the only soul-crusher I know is the Detroit Tigers, or maybe that is just a hope-dasher…

Good morning, tribe! Terry - Some pancakes with maple syrup, bacon, & sausage patties, please. I got my tax returns mailed this morning, and didn’t even have to stand in line! One of the benefits of a small town post office.

LuvH8 - I’ll have to look at my jokes file before I pick a category. Thanks! (BTW, it is spelled “Wichita” - only one T)

Hello Rmom & Johnny.

Rmom, your order is headed your way. Enjoy!

Good Morning, JFri, Johnny & Rmom!

Uh, I dunno, Wink can be a pretty formidable nickname.

Soul-Crusher, eh? There are a couple little boys named Calvin and Lio that would like to meet you…

90% of the game is half mental.

Football incorporates the two worst elements of American society: violence punctuated by committee meetings.

Little League baseball is a good thing because it keeps the parents off the streets and the kids out of the house.

Good Morning Johanan R

Hi, Doc & Grog! Thanks, Terry!

You’re most welcome, Rmom.

Hey Fellow Baby Guess what I am munching on while I’m working?

Hi Rmom!

Good Morning Grog, johnnyd, rmom, Terry & johanan.

What do you have planned today, Cleo?

Cauliflower, Dry?

I just finished munching on white cheddar cheez-its

Hi, Dry & Cleo!

Grog BINGO! White cheddar cheezits, now I’m hungry again!

Rmom, I like the third of your quotes! LOL

Hey Cleo! How are you this fine day?

Well, I have a vehicle to work on as the parts will be here right after lunch. I’ll check back in then.

Doc, have a good rest and I’ll catch you later.

Love the new Happy Dance, Doc.

Outta here for now!

Doctor Toon, I think you’ve been happy dancing around LuvH8 too much!

Terry - Thanks! I think I’ve depleted my supply of sports-related jokes.

GOOD MORNING SOUL-CRUSHER!

Please keep your distance. Thank you.

(((((((((((((Saucy))))))))))))) HI

ALL

And on that note I think I’ll wake up from napping on the computer and either get something done or go to bed for awhile. I’m glad I’m writing this on the computer. I makes it so much easier to correct any [far too numerous] mistakes. See everyone a bit later.

Hi serena

Sorry I can’t stay. See you later!

Hi! Bye! Shika

HI & Bye, Shika

Hello Dry, Saucy, Cleo, JFri, Johnny, Johanan, Rmom and Shika! (((((Saucy & Mom)))))

Hi, Carmy!

Just got back from picking up my taxes. Good news, I owed not taxes, bad news, I lost in the stock market. :-)

Wow, no comments in 4 hours. (Echos reverberate through the Big Top).

Cleo I only heard enough on the radio to it was about the stock market, but the bells were ringing so I figured it did well today, didn’t it?

Doc since the cats are staying, you best move the bed! LOL!

Finally back from the hospital. They didn’t take her until 1:30 (after saying yesterday could be as early as 7:30 and estimating 11:30 today). The good news is her heart valve done in 2001 is functioning well and she has no arterial blockage. The bad is her heart is weak. Will try to manage with medications, no surgery is indicated. So, mostly nothing we didn’t know already.

She ate a late lunch before I left the hospital. Will call later to check (must stay in bed for another 3 hours or so) and go in tomorrow before work, at lunch and after work (luckily I work across the street from the hospital).

Thanks to all for the kind thoughts and prayers.

Good to hear that they won’t have to do surgery, Saucy!

((((Saucy))))

Doc - what shed? Hi, Cleo!

Hello Rmom. How are you today?

Hi & Bye Everyone!

Why did the umpire throw the chicken out of the baseball game?

He suspected fowl play.

Good Evening Tribe

Hello everybody that’s anybody!

(((((((Saucy)))))))

Prayers and thoughts are still with you two!

Hello, Lonewolf, I’m just about ready to start watching my movie. I thought I’d check in before I did.

Saucy, that sounds like some pretty good news. Glad to hear it

Hello Grog!

I have been working on a car most of the day. Didn’t think I would get it finished until tomorrow, but It’s done!

What movie is on the schedule for tonight, Grog?

Hello LuvH8. Where did you go?

A movie sounds good to me as well. I am awaiting LilG to return from work.

Hi, Cleo.

Independence Day. Not really one of my favorites. This may be the last time I watch it. Got make room for those classic DVD’s I’m trying to collect.

I’m looking forward to seeing Immortal Sergeant & In Harm’s Way though. Those are next on my list.

Cleo - I’m doing fine. At least everything I need to do is in the house, so it isn’t near as stressful.

LuvH8 - Groan! I’ve come up with several possibilities for the theme for next week’s jokes: “battle between the sexes” “lawyers” “blondes or other lesser intelligence” I could come up with more choices, but I think it would be better to have people pick between the 3, to see which topic they’d prefer.

Hello Rmom.

Terry - It is always a great feeling to finish up a job earlier than expected!

Rmom, I’m tired of hearing about lawyers. I vote for #3.

When I lived in Canada, I used to hear a lot of Newfie jokes. Too bad I don’t remember any of them.

You’re absolutely correct Rmom. It is a good feeling.

I vote for #3 also.

Movie time.

Have fun and enjoy the movie, Grog.

Hello Terry, Grog & Rmom. I can’t tell a joke for love or money.

You are still a very funny person at times, Cleo. :^)

Running to the store with Wolfangil. We need my chili supplies! B back in a bit!!

Cleo - I just save ones I enjoy when I run across them. They certainly aren’t original with me. But I think it is like music - some are the performers, and some are the audience. My family is so rhythm impaired, my piano teacher told my mother she was wasting money trying to get me to learn how to play the piano. I can’t keep time with a metronome, and my hubby has less ability than I do, as at least I can sort of read music, even if I can’t stay on rhythm. Telling jokes isn’t any fun, if there’s no audience.

I can be naturally funny, but trying to tell a joke works very poorly for me.

I used to be able to tell some longer jokes from memory when I was younger, but with age, and a brain that has too much other stuff to remember, I just can’t do much more than one-liners from memory anymore.

Doc - Did you make the coffee at this mini-mart? (joke from rd.com) Late one night I stopped at one of those 24-hour gas station mini-marts to get myself a fresh-brewed cup of coffee. When I picked up the pot, I could not help noticing that the brew was as black as asphalt and just about as thick. “How old is the coffee you have here?” I asked the woman who was standing behind the store counter. She shrugged. “I don’t know. I’ve only been working here two weeks.”

I love all the jokes told here, but I can’t tell jokes. I keep forgetting the punchline or mixing up the joke so badly the punchline doesn’t make much sense.

Well, I got some of the stuff from the demolished shed sorted. It wasn’t too hard. Since most of it had been destroyed by snow blowing in on it, it all went into the garbage bag. It was all old and I had no emotional attachment to any of it. It should have been gone long ago.

But I guess once a packrat, always a packrat.

((((((((((((((Saucy)))))))))))))) and anyone else who is having a hard time right now.

I’m back.

Hi, Serena!

I, too, am a packrat! LOL

And right back at you, too……………………..

(((((Serena)))))

:^)

Serena - I’m the same way with telling jokes in person. That’s why I collect them on my hard drive. Then I can read them aloud to my family, or send them through cyberspace. I’d never make it as a stand-up comedienne. I’m glad you got that stuff taken care of. I tell people I’m a “recovering packrat” after having to clean out two houses after my parents’ deaths. I’ve got lots of boxes sitting around here with stuff I’ve dragged home from Mom’s, that I need to get unpacked and find places for the stuff. I’m hoping to get rid of enough other stuff to more than compensate for what I brought home. But that is going to be a very long process, I’m afraid.

@serena half the time, I forget the punch line! LOL!

I hear you RMom. My sister is the one settling my father’s estate so she has the worst of it. But we went through and divided up a few boxes of small stuff. Since it belonged to our parents we each wanted all of it. But the majority will be sold at an estate sale.

(((((((((Lonewolf)))))))))

HI ALL

Rmom, you’re another one like Cleo that comes across funny in a natural way.

Hi everybody, and how are you all doing today?

Hello, Ladywolf. Doing just fine. How about you?

Thanks, Terry! I believe in the old adage: “He who can laugh at himself, will never cease to be amused.” I hope that I am able to spread joy to others. Of course, there is the saying that “some people bring joy when they come, others when they leave…”

Rmom–How right you are! And definitely funny, too.

Hi, Ladywolf!

I guess I think that Digital Frog is the funniest gocomics poster I know of. Bunnyface is a close second. I don’t rank anywhere near as close as the two of them for coming up with appropriate puns. I do try to look at life and see the humorous aspects. I think that attitude keeps my blood pressure down, and my spirits up.

Well, all company is gone and it is just us two old fogies left and it feels kind of nice to be back in our usual routine. We loved our company, each and every visitor, but once they have gone you realize that there has been a tad of stress. I will probably be early to bed tonight.

Rmom–You’re right about DFrog being the best so far. But you do just fine with your puns.

Cleo - I do understand! I think that’s one of the reasons I prefer having dinner guests to overnight guests - they don’t stay as long. Ben Franklin reportedly said that “Both fish & company start to stink after three days,” (if my memory is correct.) And for the benefit of young people like my kids - no, I wasn’t around to hear him say it!

Cleo–Glad you had a good time and now you can relax some! You appear to be an awesome host with your guests. That’s why you are a special person.

Rmom I have and believe both those quotes (I collect them also). Um……gee……….I kind of resemble number 3.

Hello Everybody! Happy Thoughts & Positive Thoughts for All

Rmom & Terry, we have good friends and family. It is just odd how you can go for months without company and then everyone decides to come at the same time.

LuvH8 - I wouldn’t put you in that category. Now, there might some other posters I could consider….

Grog: Dad, remember how you always used to worry that I’d break a window when I played baseball in the back yard?

Dad: Yes, I remember.

Grog: Well, you can stop worrying now!

Hello LuvH8!

Cleo - Maybe they decide to come when they think the weather is the best? I know my in-laws quit coming in July, when they kept complaining about the heat. I just pointed out that spring & fall weather in KS was much more pleasant, so they started changing what time of the year they decide to visit us.

Rmom ~ Well I am blond & I have even (gasp) bleached my hair in the past.

I am convinced that Digital Frog is really a group of comedy script writers, who come up with puns for each comic as a group to warm up for their day of writing.

Lonewolf: Mom, Will you please give me two dollars for a man who’s crying in the ballpark?

Mom: What’s he crying about?

Lonewolf: He’s crying, “Hot dogs, two dollars!”

Ah, LuvH8 - I didn’t know which #3 you were referring to. My sister is naturally blonde. She’s intelligent and doesn’t come across as ditsy, but she does have her “blonde” moments.

Rmom no, it is a matter of convenience, fishing season, time available and lack of family commitments. Our weather is best in the summer from July through September, so that is when guests generally prefer to arrive.

Hello Lonewolf!

Rmom - Some of the time I’m not sure which one I am refering to either.

Lot’s of Luv, Good Night Everyone!

I’m going to Mom’s so won’t be back until ‘tomorrow’.

Cleo - Oh well, as long as you’ve got the room, and they all get along together, it is probably for the best they all come at the same time. Better than having a constant flow of company, I would think.

Rmom, no complaints on company. They are all great. I just don’t realize that I am tired until I am alone.

Good Night LuvH8. We’ll miss ya for sure tonight!

Have fun!

Good night, LuvH8!

Cleo, our time for company visits is the winter holidays when we are all cooped up inside from the cold. Good thing I have a good sized basement and an extra bedroom. This past winter I got lucky because of what I am dealing with. My little sister had the honors.

Cleo - I’m the same way. It is only once the adreneline level drops, that I realize I’m tired.

Terry just plunk your kids on top of the pool table. LOL

Speaking of being tired… Guess I’d better tear myself away from the computer, and start heading to bed. Good night!

Cleo–With James, that’s an option, but the daughters are in their early twenties. LOL

Good Night Rmom. Glad you stopped by, lady!

Good night Rmom.

The same situation that I am in Terry, except *LilG’s * kids are hardcore. They pride themselves on surviving the elements. Her son and girlfriend drove to Alaska in January and camped the entire trip in temps as low as -25 degrees.

I’m doing good, just off and on busy cooking dinner.

I remember you talking about LilG’s kids back then. I commend them for sticking through it. That takes a lot of will power. I know. My daughters are stubborn, but I don’t think they would sleep on the pool table like James would.

My wife’s kids are both very unique. Both graduated with a 4.0 grade average and on the dean’s list. Yet they are hardcore outdoors men and women. They fish with their dad, brave all elements and are totally comfortable in any foul weather situation.

They scuba dive, hunt, fish, skin their catch and make me look like a dweeb. LOL

No, I wouldn’t go that far, Cleo. There’s a thing called different strokes for different folks. It would be boring if we were all the same!