Hm… I didn’t imagines the height difference that big until now. Standing high on her toes her scalp’s still under his nose – that adds up to at least a full foot less than him.
Granny, if she’d only known, would have warned her about a lot more. Wouldn’t have mattered. She ended up doing them all, doing most of them very well indeed.
My grandmother thought that dancing was evil. My aunt danced anyway. My father thought that my brother and I should learn how to dance and took us to dancing classes. My husband did not dance and so I forgot how. My grandmother would say that I should never have learned.
Sure, if you are good at dancing. For myself, I quit dancing with dates because I got tired of embarassing them and I did usually want to talk to them again.
Fond memory from high school. A girl who was a friend – we never dated – but at dances those we might be dating knew that Kay and I always danced select slow dances together (Sleep Walk, by Santo and Johnny for one). She could melt the buttons on your shirt and fuse your belt buckle.
Grumpy Old Guy over 1 year ago
Janis is sure light on her feet…..
Tyge over 1 year ago
Probably slow dancing in particular. Wise woman.
alasko over 1 year ago
Everybody get footloose!
[Unnamed Reader - 8bb645] over 1 year ago
Putting the “loose” in “footloose”?
SWCarter over 1 year ago
Does the third panel mean Arlo was dancing a little stiffly (so to speak).
John Smith over 1 year ago
Very sweet & romantic!
Well done Jimmy
unfair.de over 1 year ago
Hm… I didn’t imagines the height difference that big until now. Standing high on her toes her scalp’s still under his nose – that adds up to at least a full foot less than him.
Sephten over 1 year ago
In Puritan England, having sex standing up used to be banned, in case it led to dancing.
nosirrom over 1 year ago
And Arlo is glad Janis didn’t listen.
AnneFackler over 1 year ago
Slow dancing, swaying to the music…noone else in the whole wide world…just me and my girl.♥︎
Meledosia over 1 year ago
Johnson needs to put Janis on a diet. This is a comic, not real life. She shouldn’t have to put up with middle age spread.
Skeptical Meg over 1 year ago
A (male) friend said, “I don’t like dancing. I do like holding on to women who are dancing.”
colddonkey over 1 year ago
Well I’m sure the warning wasn’t about square dancing.
coffeemom88 over 1 year ago
Awww . . . I love how she’s standing on tippy-toes in panel one.
William Bednar Premium Member over 1 year ago
Unchained Melody playing, Righteous Brothers singing?
Dogtreat Premium Member over 1 year ago
Everybody cut, everybody cutEverybody cut footloose
RonaldDad Premium Member over 1 year ago
Al Green will do that.
Barbara Rivera over 1 year ago
Love this!
walstib Premium Member over 1 year ago
They didn’t teach us to dance that way in 8th grade Catholic school Cotillion class.
Dave M over 1 year ago
Even guys with two left feet come out all right if the girl is sweet.
timzsixty9 over 1 year ago
I wish I still had a “dance” partner….menopause took her away.
flagmichael over 1 year ago
Why don’t (whatever strict religion) have sex standing up? Because it could lead to dancing.
ChessPirate over 1 year ago
The Vertical Bop, amiright?
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Aladar30 Premium Member over 1 year ago
I love this strip so much ♡.
ladykat over 1 year ago
I miss slow dancing.
I'm Sad over 1 year ago
I vote for Air Supply!!! I know, this should have been said yesterday… But still, today I vote for Air Supply again!!!
Searcy9320 over 1 year ago
An old statement of slow dancing. “Nothing like a woman that walks right through you!”
MeGoNow Premium Member over 1 year ago
Granny, if she’d only known, would have warned her about a lot more. Wouldn’t have mattered. She ended up doing them all, doing most of them very well indeed.
mjpalmer over 1 year ago
Always have that ability to dance, to let yourself go.
sfreader1 over 1 year ago
My grandmother thought that dancing was evil. My aunt danced anyway. My father thought that my brother and I should learn how to dance and took us to dancing classes. My husband did not dance and so I forgot how. My grandmother would say that I should never have learned.
LJZ Premium Member over 1 year ago
Women like to slow dance… for the romance, of course:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zzo-0mnUVFM
Mr. Organization over 1 year ago
Janis is on her toes and still that much shorter than Arlo? I didn’t think they had so great a height difference.
paranormal over 1 year ago
Where’s the mirror ball???
MartinPerry1 over 1 year ago
Sure, if you are good at dancing. For myself, I quit dancing with dates because I got tired of embarassing them and I did usually want to talk to them again.
David Huie Green AmericaIsGreatItHasUs over 1 year ago
Had you been as clumsy as I am, the warning would have been extremely reasonable.
MCProfessor over 1 year ago
Slow dancin’ with my baby…
KEA over 1 year ago
Baptist Grandmother?
mjjk1985 over 1 year ago
Author Tamar Myers says you shouldn’t have sex standing up. It could lead to dancing.
viniragu over 1 year ago
Ritualized foreplay!!
viniragu over 1 year ago
Didn’t she throw out her dishes!?
flushed over 1 year ago
Well, if grandma hadn’t done what she had done then Janis wouldn’t be here to do it too. <];o) YOWSA!
Mark McKay Premium Member over 1 year ago
Hands, Arlo. Keep the hands above the waist.
ScullyUFO over 1 year ago
This is why square dancing was invented.
Scoutmaster77 over 1 year ago
I grew up in a church that banned dancing of any kind, among many other things.
Ukko wilko over 1 year ago
Fond memory from high school. A girl who was a friend – we never dated – but at dances those we might be dating knew that Kay and I always danced select slow dances together (Sleep Walk, by Santo and Johnny for one). She could melt the buttons on your shirt and fuse your belt buckle.
DorothyGlenn Premium Member over 1 year ago
Gene, Gene, from the dancing machine.