Big Top by Rob Harrell for July 15, 2011

Good EARLY Morning, Tribe!

Da Eats *Eggs, made to order or egg beatersSausage, pepper bacon, Canadian bacon and/or ham (pork or turkey)Huevos Rancherospan fried potatoes, hash brownsKemah Boardwalk Brick Oven Pizzas grits, oatmeal & Honey Nut Cheerios!Bush’s baked beanstoast (white bread or wheat), bagels & cream cheese, jams & jelliesassorted kolachesfresh fruitPop Tarts*_♥Little Sister♥’s_ Special Chicken fried steak with mashed potatoes and gravy, or the classic steak and eggs meal with a biscuit Blues Brothers special: Jake’s 4 Fried Chickens and a coke and Elwood’s dry white toastKFCKitty’s Breakfast platter (limited to Kitty only)BeveragesDoc Toon’s WORLD FAMOUS NUCLEAR COFFEE (small, medium, large & fill your own tub)Alain’s Starbright’s Divine CocoMochaassorted juices & teasassorted soft drinks, especially PEPSI!selected premium beersBloody Mary or CaesarSweetsSelected ice creams & ice cream floats!New York Style CheesecakeRoot beer, PEPSI & other floatsAnything and everything Chocolate for LuvH8 and other chocoholicsEat Hearty, Tribe!

Do you really think Customs is that stupid?

GROG Quick, two *DTWFNC*s. Better make that 3. I woke up late and don’t want to hear, “Are you playing with those comics again? Flo’s husband is out mowing the lawn. If I had married him I wouldn’t have to work more than 3 jobs.”Good thing about getting up late. I get to read more comments on my first trip through. Bad thing about getting up late, some genius like GROG, ML, DOGSNIFF, or any of the TRIBE have already made the good remarks. Oh well, I got a million of them from my Uncle Miltie tapes.

GOOD MORNING! Ooh, Honey Nut Cheerios! Here, fill that big salad bowl with them, add some of the coconut milk we use in the CocoMocha, and I’ll be set for the morning. Oh, and a China Syndrome Special, please (the Nuclear and the Divine unobtanium-borne, dontchaknow).

Good morning, Lewreader & Alain.

Lewreader you always manage to bring at least a smile to this ugly mug, no matter what you say. :-).

Good morning, Doctor Toon. Have fun!

Good Morning, Tribe!

Good Morning, Doc, Grog, Alain & Lew

Have fun, Doc!

I need to get moving too. Got a full day of work ahead of me. Have a great day everyone!P&L

Good morning everyone :-)

Good morning, Lonewolf & Little Sister

bamp!

Good morning, peoples!Especially ♠Lonewolf♠. ♥Lil’ Sis♥, and ♣Grog♣!+++++I wonder if LuvH8 has seen Birdbrains yet?+++++I wonder if Dusty will injure himself, or get held at customs for smuggling?+++++Inquiring minds need to know!

bamf!

Reposted using bmonk’s idea for separating paragraphs *+++++Good morning tribe.+++++Nice menu Grog! I’ll take two eggs over easy, Canadian bacon, whole wheat toast and OJ. Ever have Taylor pork roll? It’s kind of like bacon made into a salami. It’s great for outdoor cooking, because it doesn’t produce grease like bacon.+++++I like your new avatar LS. I’m glad you went back to the cute anime pics. The others were nice, but were kind of melancholy

≡≡ P O P ! ≡≡♪ Good Morning TRIBE! ♪

Hello to all those here!

Ill have cold KFC, chocolate cake and DWFNC, thanks Grog.

At least Dusty’s being useful.

Good Morning hendelca!

Good morning, bmonk, Thunderdog, Sojo & hendelca

this will likely be my last post for a while. Busy, busy, busy.

Good morning all. Grog, can I get 3 over easy, sausage, bacon, canadian bacon ham, and four fried chickens and a coke, please?

Good Morning Grog and MisngNOLA!

Hi, ♫NOLA♫ and ♦Sojo♦!“Spine smime”:Dusty will need to borrow a mime’s spine?

Hi bmonk!

I had to go back to the former avatar, since Yellow Pig Day is July 17 (=7/17, 17 being “the random prime”. Don’t ask unless you really, really want to know. . . .).

Now I just need to be sure it’s working.

I remember that avatar

Hi, again, ♥Lil’ Sis♥!Now that I’ve changed back to Y.P., yesterday’s Frog comments are gonna be orphans.

Hi ♥Little Sister♥ – It’s been awhile to be on at the same time!

It looks to us like your talking to yourself. :-)

Morning TRIBE! Think I’ll have a bowl of those grits with some bacon and a PEPSI. Thanks Grog!

Hi, Ladyhawk!(BTW, are you named after the 1980s movie??)

Hi Ladyhawk!

bmonk – That was a good movie.

OK, I’m confused. Can more than one avatar be assigned? LS’s avatar seems to be switching between her dark hair yellow eyed girl to a red headed anime girl. I haven’t noticed any other tribe member’s do any switching. Is this a new feature or is LS working some of her gocomics magic?

Hi Thunderdog – *bmonk*’s is also changing. Although it could be their switching there’s to confuzze us I think there is a delay problem somewhere in the internet either that is taking awhile for changes to update right away. (I have thought of making an animated gif of different avatars with a long switching time, perhaps an hour, to do a similar thing.)

Wow! MisngNOLA was really hungry.

Thanks, Ladyhawk. It’s always nice when a sweetheart works out well.+++++ @ Thunderdog, I think that’s probably it. Some servers just take longer to get the news that something has changed.+++++Sheesh! Two deletes and re-formattings to get it right!What ever happened to the *&% edit function????

BTW: Hi, ♦Thunderdog♦!

Understanding Thunderdog more now. Bmonk just went back to the frog for a minute, and then was the YP again… I can’t keep up.

boy do I miss that edit button!

Yeah, even after three hours, it still goes back and forth on occasion.

Did I ever mention that Dark Side of the Horseis really funny today—at least to me?

bmonk – Not having the Edit button is part of the new standards GoComic is starting to use. You can now Reply to a comment (as if that button is needed). If a reply was made to a comment and then that comment was edited then the reply might not make sense. Therfore, the Edit button is no longer used. Of course, if you delete your comment and someone replyed to it then the reply still wouldn’t make sense. Also, when you reply to a comment how do you know which comment they were replying to anyway. I think the new standard for web page comments is a work in progress. Technically when you reply to a comment the reply is nested to that comment. Isn’t tecknowlely great!

bmonk – LOL

Ladyhawk – It does make more fun. I’d also like to have fun Editing a comment that had a reply. :-)

But Sojo Isn’t having orphaned comments half the fun?!?!?

darn reply button isn’t working for me either

bmonk – For myself the Edit is more important than Reply but whoever is making new standards for web pages must think otherwise. :-(

And see, then that happens. I have to delete a post but you’ve already seen it and replied and now your reply comes before my initial post, and it’s all just too confusing!

Ladyhawk – The reply to me was there a while ago. Did you delete it?

@ LadyhawkI find that, if I really need to reply, and it fails, a reload screen (plus “load the rest of the comments”) usually works. If I don’t mind waiting. . . .Strange: once when I posted that comment, i was as a reply to Ladyhawk.

Bmonk – I’m deciding it’s easier to just reply like I always did…

That’s what I do and wish the Edit button was there. Maybe someday Nested replys will go under the comment (but then you might not see the reply). I think the standards are continuing to change (be made up).

Hi, friends!

Hi, ♥SR Mom♥!

Hi Rmom – Went to two stores this morning and got home by 9:30 this morning before it got too hot.

Yes—after last night’s thunderstorm—which seems to have passed through sometime long after midnight—it is getting toasty out there today. And worse for the weekend. 90s, with heat index peaking over 100. And no hint of thuderboomers until Tues or so—which will bring it down to the upper 80s.

bmonk – It was only 85° at 9:30 this morning. It’s now 103° so far. It did reach 100° yesterday despite being cooler most of the day due to an overcast until late afternoon. Next 7 day forcast to be in the 100°s with no rain.

Looks like Sojo & I were both looking up our weather at the same time. Since we’re about 50 miles apart, there’s not a whole lot of difference most of the time.

I’ll take the 10 or so degrees cooler weather up here, thanks. 90s are more than high enough to satisfy my need for heat.

tribe! I miss “edit”, not that I ever make mistakes that I don’t catch till after I push "submit, but because I MIGHT forget something important like highlighting the name of someone in the TRIBE. It is a little difficult to rewrite my entire comment (they’re thoughtful, not long winded) just to put in some punctuation. That’s my story and I’m sticking to it.

Hi Lew – Another vote for Edit!

@ Sojo – too bad gocomics doesn’t actually take a poll of users to determine what features we find most helpful.

Ladyhawk – That would be nice but the new standards that are being developed are for all web pages and go beyond GoComics. Being unable to delete your comment if it had a reply or better yet deleting all replys to your comment if you deleated it may be in the future as they make up the standards. I guess it’s something we’ll have to live with.

Trying out things on an old date is a good idea for that Rmom.

I knew it would never actually happen, thus the preface of too bad. It was just wishful thinking.

Ladyhawk – True, sometimes I mis-read things and other times I have a hard time understandig what I do read. :-)

Sojo – don’t we all :→ I have the same difficulties with email and texting. It’s not like having the face and tone to help. Actually I believe the words only make up about 12% of what we get out of face to face conversations.

Have a good weekend everyone. I’m off to Fort Collins for class.

****poof****

Ladyhawk – Have a good class and weekend.

Good Evening, Tribe.

Finally done with my day. Now it’s R&R time here at the home 20!

Good Evening ♠Lonewolf♠ – R&R it is!

Hi, Sojo!

Good evening, Tribe!

I just finished watching the first 8 episodes of The Bob Newhart Show. I love that show. One of the episodes brought up fear of flying, which in passing brought up fear of elevators. That hit home because I worked with a woman – close to retirement at the time – who was afraid of elevators. My co-workers in the mailroom laughed at her (Behind her back). I felt sorry for her. She worked on the 24th floor of our building, but I’d often see her when I was leaving from the 22nd floor by the freight elevator, knowing that we had to take the mail bags down to the basement. The freight elevator was the only elevator that stopped at every floor. When I got on the elevator with her, she’d never stop talking (taking her mind off the ride) How are you Mr. So and so. How are you Mr. so and so. She was respectfull of us lowly mailboys, even when most every one else treated us like lowly pond scum. At any rate, though she is now long gone, you gotta respect someone who has to face the same fear, day in and day out for every work day of their life.

Another episode dealt with watching football on Saturday, Sunday and Monday. I think I can relate to that, but now there’s also Thursday night games. Emily must be really pleased with that. The only think that can keep me from watching NFL games is not liking the matchup, which is even possible during the Superbowl. I’d really hate to see a subway-Superbowl. It’s easier for me to skip college games unless the matchup appears not to be too one-sided.

By the way, I have no intention of editing that if there are errors.

Grog – Those were good shows. Haven’t seen any on TubTub though.

Glad you had a great time Doc – Have a good evening.

The dog we had was 100+, and it was bad enough trying to keep up with him where the hills are shorter than I am. Other than when I was trying to train him for an “invisible fence”, we didn’t bother walking him with a leash, since there’s no leash law out here in the boonies.

Hi, Sojo. There aren’t any shows that make me LOL these days, but those classic Newharts always do. Nightcourt also did that for me.

Glad you enjoyed your last day, Doc Maube you should do a little more of that. Sounds like fun – and good for you too.

Grog – Their were a lot of older shows that were good, including many from BBC but today it’s another matter.

Hi, Rmom. I haven’t seen the show in reruns for many years. Yet you can get an overdose of Rosanne and _The Nanny, which weren’t half as good as Newhart or Mary Tyler Moore.

When I had SkyAngel a couple o different Newhart shows were shown for a while.

Rmom, I was referring to the first Newhart, of which I own 4 seasons. I also have the first season of of the second Newhart, but am impatiently waiting for the remaining seasons. I’d really love to have that collection and, of course, the greatest series finale of them all.

Oddly enough, Rmom, I didn’t see much of the original series in its first run, but saw most of it on afternoon reruns. However, I wouldn never miss the Newhart in the Vermont setting during prime time. But then, if I remember correctly, it and Mouthy Brown were on before Monday Night Football.

Good Night Rmom.

Good night, Rmom

I’m not too far behind.

OK, then. My turn.

Gunite, Tribeandall

Good Night Grog.

Okay….One of my favoritist things about the reply button is when I see a comment that is a reply to a commentor who appears nowhere on the entire page I’ve decided to let my mistakes stay rather than screw up the flow of the comments. Fine! The truth is between GoComics new formatting and Fiend’s new programming, I actually have to type the whole stupid comment out again unless I copy it before I actually post it and the whole thing is a pain in the patooty.

I suppose for giggles I could try the voice typing one day and let whatever it types be comment. Assuming it doesn’tthink I am saying bad things. Hey! It would be like playing telephone with my telephone.

Regis still has a campus in Ft Collins for now, but it’s moving to Loveland in Aug. Watch out for me in the ice cream aisles. LOL.