Big Top by Rob Harrell for July 17, 2010

Good EARLY Morning, Tribe Eggs, made to order or egg beaters Sausage, bacon, Canadian bacon and/or ham (pork or turkey) Hamburgers, fish burgers, hotdogs & Rib-eye steaks made to order off the Bar-B-Q. Pan Cakes Breakfast Burritos pan fried potatoes, hash browns Kemah Boardwak Brick Oven Pizzas grits, oatmeal & Honey Nut Cheerios! Bush’s baked beans toast (white bread or wheat), bagels & cream cheese, jams & jellies assorted kolaches fresh fruit Pop Tarts Blues Brothers special: Jake’s 4 Fried Chickens and a coke and Elwood’s dry white toast pirate coffee Doc Toon’s WORLD FAMOUS NUCLEAR COFFEE Johanan’s Starbright’s Divine CocoMocha assorted juices & teas assorted softdrinks, especially PEPSI! Selected ice creams & ice cream floats! Cold KFC Root beer, PEPSI & other floats Anything and everything Chocolate for LuvH8! Bloody Mary or Caesar selected premium beers

Eat Hearty, Tribe

Good Morning, LuvH8

Wow! You all make these menus elaborate.

May I have scrambled eggs, canadian bacon, a bagel with cream cheese & tomato juice. Followed by the a piece of chocolate cake and glass of milk?

Wow, Grog, you sure know how to rustle up some breakfast. May I have a root beer float with vanilla ice cream. Old fashioned vanilla, please and thank you!

Hello Carmy! Coming right up!

LuvH8, It’s on it’s way. Heads up!

Wow Fellow Baby Carmy is correct! You do make a good breakfast! I’ll have eggs benedict please with Canadian Bacon and Pirate Coffee! Thank you sir!

As Risitas would say DAAAHHHH STRIP

Crashing back to reality sucks sometimes, huh Pete? ‘Specially after a vacation and such!!

Hello Felllow Baby. Coming right up.

Thank you, all.

LuvH8, I think you’ll like Non Sequitur today.

Thank you, Grog! Dry, thanks for reminding me about the crashing back into reality.

Thank you Grog. Do you have Kitty’s dinner ready? He looks a bit unhappy.  

I had that done while you were deciding what you were going to have, LuvH8

It is very considerate of you Grog. Nobody really seems to forget Kitty.

It’s time for a new avatar.

Good Morning Tribesters!

Good Morning Grog! Thanks for getting breakfast.

You’ll also like the Argyle Sweater, LuvH8. There’s something grim about it, too.

Yay! Grim Stuff!

Good Morning LuvH8

Good Morning, ♠Lonewolf♠ No problem. Glad I didn’t sleep in though.

Grog, can I have a rib-eye med rare, hash browns and Doc’s World Famous Nuclear Coffee? That should do it.

Hello Carmy & Dry

I know what you mean!

Good Morning Lonewolf, How are you doing?

LuvH8, Kitty’s not used to so much company maybe?

That should help you go to sleep for a while. Here you go, ♠Lonewolf♠

Thanks for the great menu Grog but I’ll keep it simple today. Eggs over easy, wheat toast and hash browns will be fine, thank you. BTW I’m back.

Good morning TRIBE & Big Sister. Sorry I’m late. Grog thank you so much for getting breakfast ready for everyone. I had a menu ready but did not know if I would be home on time.

I’m to tired to do any toon tours tonight.

See you when I wake up.

Hello WoodEye & Ladywolf

Your breakfast is ready. I’m afraid my bed is calling me now.

Thank you, Grog!

Good Morning & Welcome back, Woodeye!

G’Morning & G’Night Ladywolf.

Hello Little Sister

I hope you had a fun time tonight. Have a great weekend. My cold is getting better.

Good Night Little Sister

Good Night Grog, WoodEye & Lonewolf

Good Night LuvH8, Grog & everyone!

P&L

Good morning, Grog and Everyone Else!

I likely will be up for a while after going to bed very early this evening, but meanwhile for the usual time, I’d like:

Scrambled eggs Turkey bacon Bagel and cream cheese w/lox (2) Orange juice (Chris Alan will ship to you shortly some absolutely exquisite stuff from Israel, you haven’t lived until you tried it) Our CocoMocha of interstellar renown

(P.S.: We are currently negotiating with a supplier of Lebanese apple juice, also said to be exquisite. We haven’t tried it. We also are unused to the Middle Eastern style of negotiating. We’re more used to making offers people can’t refuse on the one hand or simply waiting politely for a firm price on the other.)

(P.S.: Don’t forget the Tabasco brand sauce! Frank’s Hot Sauce is wonderful, as is my sauce of choice for stir-fry, Sriracha. but nothing beats for my taste buds the unique taste of Tabasco on scrambled eggs, hash browns, and quite a few other things I have in restaurants.)

GROG I’m too hot to eat anything but a bit of fresh fruit. Well maybe some whipped cream if you got it.Oh heck, throw in a quart or two or DOC’S NUC COFFEE*.

LUVB8 I was going to invite KITTY over to play with my furry duo,but it’s brutal with not AC and they might scrap. I wouldn’t want KITTY to get hurt and never come back.

Morning TRIBE AC repairman coming just about when the Jazz festival starts. I ever tell you that God hates me?

Good Morning, Lewreader. Your order is up.

Isn’t that always the way. Repairmen, never come when it’s convenient for you.

Doctor Toon, I’m afraid you have a long run ahead of you before you catch up to me. I don’t say that with any pride - my medical condition doesn’t exactly make staying awake any easier. So you might say my handicap, is another kind of handicap.

Don’t worry, enough feline training will put you over the top.

Good Morning, Tribe

Hello, Doc, Lewreader and Grog

LOL! ! Doc Good morning TRIBE. :-)

Good Morning, Ladywolf.

Hello Doc. I just woke up a bit ago.

Love the menu. :-) I think I’ll fix me a hamburger, a slice of that brick oven pizza and a pepsi float.

I’m glad that you are feeling better Big Sister.

I hope it will not be as hot today as it was yesterday. I do not like 100 + degree weather.

I gotta do some toon tours so see you all later.

Hey, you guys are FUN!!!!! Can I come over here and play?

Good Morning, Montana Lady. Of course!! NO complainers over here!!

Doc, 92° and about 60% humidity today. I’ll be inside shooting pool. :^)

Do you work tonight, Doc?

That answered that question! LOL

I know what you mean, Doc. Yes I do!

I’m glad things are moving in a positive direction for you, Doc. I can’t complain myself either, too much. It is what it is. :^)

A car and a ring, Doc, you have got plans within plans. And it is good you’re almost done with whatever bill you have. If I had to do it over, I would never use a credit card except for vehicular type emergencies…and only if I didn’t have enough $$.

Anyway, good afternoon Tribe Hot and humid here in the armpit of the Universe. Watching Wall-E, it’s a cute little movie. Plan on working on the necklace I’m making which is already sold. Then go back to the stock I’m trying to build up. So short and sweet. I’m still employed. I still tend to be depressed. Taffy had her last kitty checkup and is wonderfully healthy, her spaying incision healing well. Catch ya later, Tribe

Rest well, Doc!

Hello Quaby. Great to here about Taffy.

I have broken down and am letting my daughter get a Bengal mix kitten. I think that is what she called it? I’ll have to ask her to be sure. Of course it has to get along with my dogs! LOL

I need to get my butt moving and head out to my pool league.

Have a great day everyone! Stay cool!

P&L

Just popping into saying I’m still alive. I got stung by a wasp Thursday night, so now I have a swollen finger. Benedryl is my friend, but unfortunately, only helps somewhat. If the last wasp sting is any indication, I have about a month before the swelling & rash disappear completely.

Welcome, MontanaLady!

I hope you do come back and stay awhile.

Good Afternoon, Tribeandalll!

Hi Grog :-)

Hello Ladywolf!

How are you this fine afternoon?

Pretty good, I’m staying out of the heat.

Yeah, I always try to do what ever I need to do in the mornings before it gets too oppressive

Well, I’ll be be back later. Obviously, it’s a quiet afternoon here. No surprise, really!

See you later Grog.

Looks like the mods got the offending stuff removed. Welcome, MontanaLady and ElDo Disc Golf!

It’s not hot here. Mid 70’s maybe? Ah ha ha haaaaaa!

Doc ~ I liked Mal and Chad. I felt your contribution needed a partner so left him someone to keep him company.

Rmom ~ Is that what happened to the 37 verses of On Top of Spaghetti I had here? I painstakingly typed it out all 37 times with out using cut and paste. I had to soak my hands in ice water for hours after I was done. And now it is just GONE!!!!!!!

Rmom, if it has wings and a stinger ~ DO NOT PLAY WITH IT!!!!! I hope you feel better soon. I recently read in one of my great grandmothers household hints magazine that meat tenderizer is supposed to be really good on things like that. Something about how it breaks down the protein in the bite/sting. I don’t have a clue if it works though.

Hi Big Sister :-)

I’m glad that you are feeling better.

Hi Doc & Little Sister

But Doc playing with spiders is fun for Boots.

That means I got to remove my greeting of the spammer message ………….Shoot! And I thought it was cute.

I don’t know who I want to be. Do either of you have any suggestions? Maybe I will just change several times a day until something fits?

Done did it.

Yeah, I am in deciding mode. Maybe I will be a fairy princess?

You could let Boots play with your new rat? He might like that.

I liked your greeting Little Sister. It was funny and cute.

Okay, I suppose I should leave now since I was supposed to pick Monkey 2 up 3 minutes ago. Bad Mommy! Didn’t feel like being on time. (Blows Raspberry)

(cough cough) Needs work, see you later!

Just got done feeding my dogs. Now I can relax.

I’ve also been reading e mail. Have a ton of it. WOO-HOO!

Doc I have to worry about my dogs when they’re outside because of red ants.

Hello and good evening everyone. Missed out. We have DSL here and the small box gave it up for 3 days. Had AT&T come out cost us a fortune. Rmom when I was stung some time ago, my mom had me use yellow baking soda in a spoon with a little water, for my finger.

I usually don’t read Non Sequitor but someone commented on a name of Karen I wonder who they where referring to. And Non Sequitor reminds me of my pt position. I got slammed badly Thurs.

Hello, Ladywolf & Kab

Sorry I missed you, LuvH8 & Doctor Toon

Woops. I think I forgot Rmom. Hi Rmom!

Well not all the spam is gone. I noticed there was still something at Rubes that I flagged earlier today that’s still there.

Good evening Grog and Ladywolf it’s hot here too. Well locally news announced one of the local air craft co., my hubby didn’t retire from there, had a meating with the union. Sounds like the comp. maybe getting ready to close doors. Sending 50 to 75% in two years of major layoff and sending a lot of work to Mexico.

Actually, Ladywolf, rather than delete your comment, you should probably copy it to all the other pages, because none of the spam is gone from what I can tell, nor potty-mouth Rocks.

Kab, I hope you are saying that your husband is not affected by this. However, if by chance he is affected, the meetings you speak of will probably give your husband some time. They will likely have to complete current contractual obligations before they can start laying employees off and eventually close the doors. If he is affected, he’ll likely have at least 6 months - if not more.

However, if your husband is not affected but it is something that seriously affects your local economy then I can also understand your concern there too.

How many employees will be affected? Do you know?

Grog I wonder about that on Rocks. I find it hard to realize someone would type that mud where older not sure if someone younger the Ladywolf reads gocomics. But I was also among the offended and could believe my eyes. I flagged.

My hubband retired from a different air craft com after 36 years. He wanted to leave I on the other hand wished he stayed we had pickup payments. We no longer have that pickup after paid off months ago hubby didn’t get hurt but truck got hit on the side badly $15,000 to repair and insurance said no. 50 to 75% will be let go. The aircraft com is not very big. This aircraft com is still on a 3 year contract. Where husband worked at they let go of 10,000 workers and it’s still not very stable work is going more to Mexico.

It will effect the ecomy here. For two others could follow suit. There is one majoy one had a division change 6 years ago and a lot of 55 and older where terminated. The workers for the major com filed an age discrimination lawsuit and lost. The lawyers found out the judge that worked that also worked with that major com. The major layoff will effect workers who are union contract and managment. I’m talking serious layoffs. And job fairs are a joke.

For parts of KS jobs are not great and the older one is the worse. I’ve heard of so many nightmares about people my age even the ones who have degrees are having a tough time. A few have gotten smater though have contracted themselves out or started something else for extra income. I also heard to there is one com not aircraft related but up this main street from us is doing bad business and could close.

Well it’s shower time and bed time, church is tomorrow then later my mom’s house. So I wish you all pleasant dreams.

Kab, the company that I had worked for 30+ years has been shifting jobs and production overseas, piece by piece, little by little. I was fortunate (to some extent) to have my plant & business purchased by a Japanese company. At the time my job was next on the block.

But within the next 5 years, I don not expect much if anything left of the Dallas office that I worked in and wonder about the future of the existing US & Canadian plants. They have been building newer plants in Singapore and China. Many of the Corporate functions are now in Hungary.

Grog since your an accountant do you also do income taxes? I know you would have to know the law. You could outsource your self by getting the word out of your accounting ablilites. Here I am planning to get with Senior Services Org see if there is something in my field. I know for instant in Medical field like paper medical records is going more for computer this way only the nurse and mainly Dr. sees private patient med. As long as computer mainframe doesn’t crash. Here are DSL box quit and cost us a bundle to argue with AT&T and have a tech come out and we got stuck with the bill. My daughter’s boyfriend or us are going to check on internet sometimes to see if there is one cheaper then paying $100. I feel so strongly the public has a right to worry.

No, Kab, I do not do taxes. They are a 4-letter word to me. However, I might consider something in personal financial services if that should happen.

Oh and my major was in Finance - not accounting, though a part of my function is to do some accounting functions.

Good evening Tribe. Back from pool. We won one and lost the other.

Good evening, ♠Lonewolf♠!

I trust pool went well?