Big Top by Rob Harrell for July 17, 2009

Good job, Doc!

bigg, no breakfast for you!

What a bummer to lose an ear.

Dang….I came up with some Fiona Apple…

Doc, WOW! You went all out with the breakfast. Are we saving the gruel for the trolls?

She ATE the ear! She must have been really hungry. Serve her up a bowl of gruel.

bigg, you’re serving leftovers?

Okay…..found it….

I found it on Amazon like you said. Not familiar with any of those tunes. The only one I know from them is “Jessica.”

Okey dokey, Doc!

I’m going to make a quick run around the toon block.

It’s good to start the day with a laugh. “It stings, Dave,,,”…now think I found the liner notes….

DOC: Check ‘Broomhilda’….

hymenoxis, carmy, doctortoon, cleo, and bigg3469: Good morning! Breakfast looks wonderful. I’ll have some scrambled eggs and cheese, and some cranberry juice.

Carmy….”Whipping Post” is rather a guy thing. Lovely opening bass riff, and then a general blues complaint about a woman….go figure. P2 23273P22 23273 is the number on the spine.

hymenoxis, thanks for the info. I’ll see if I can find some of the tunes on youtube tomorrow. Too tired to do that now.

The selling point is the opening bass line. I think it’s played on an Alembic guitar.

(sweep)

Jeez….now that I listen to this, maybe you don’t want to download “Whipping Post”. It’s a rather long jam. Southern rock thing…..fluff up your pillow., make some popcorn….

(sweep, sweep)

Good morning and Happy FRIDAY!! Sorry, you’re back at work tomorrow docT, but it’s been a long week for me, so I’m looking forward to a little bit of rest.

When I said goodnight yesterday, we were only at the end of page 2 - this morning I see you guys got to page 7!! Good thing I didn’t over sleep, but I doubt I can finish my rounds before I have to get ready for work.

I hope they are able to fix Wink’s ear. And his eye could use some ice.

Morning all!

Speaking of Mike Tyson, did you hear Dell made a Tyson special edition computer?

2 bytes, no memory…

*DF* - Good one.

Biscuits with sausage gravy and scrambled eggs sounds good. Thanks **doctortoon.

Good Morning all.

Hey at least Bigg brought leftovers this time. That’s a slight improvement! LOL

Akenta, why do the weeks go by so fast anymore?

Doc, I gave you an easy way out for breakfast last night, and I see you outdid yourself! I knew you knew how to cook. Sorry I didn’t stick around to help! (Or is that what the $$ was for, did you pay hymenoxis to make breakfast?)

Morning marg, carmy, cleo, DF, Joe Allen, Hymenoxis!

I meant to post this first before anything else, but I got so excited when I saw what doc had made!! LOL

Poor Wink, she really did a number on the poor guy! I wonder how bad she looks?

wow you guys were busy last night after I went to bed! And yes, doc, I do remember now, about poor little Boots, you taking away his manhood and all!! LOL Come to think of it my girls are all spayed, anyway!

Morning all. I will be doing a hit and run right now. i have to get ready to go to my moms tonight and i need to find some med to knock out this pain. it hurts under my right eye. and the left top hole (for lack of a better word) hurts like heck. need to get it rinsed out agian. i have to do that every 4 to 5 hours. fun fun fun. well ill be back later house cleaning to do and a brother to get out of bed. love ya all

PEACE, LOVE AND HUGS TO ALL!!

(mixes Bloody Marys)

doctortoon - I should maybe get that tattooed on my chest.

hi all, well doc and cleo… im back for a little while my granny will be here shortly to cooke me food… i could do it myself, but heck she wants to cook for me im not going to argue.

so funny thing that happened…. i have lived in this house for over 8 years and we have had this desk here for about 5 or 6 of those years…. well as i was going to sit down guess what i did….. i hit my head on the top of the desk, never happened before, i think its funny. im strange i know.

Cleo you should so get that tattoed on yuor chest. lol

tabby - A new day and that puts you one day closer to being pain free.

I joined in the gmartin bashing over at “Rubes”. I myself found the comic quite good.

Just popped in to say hi quick!

Papa doc, yeah you’re in WAY over your head!

Tabby, you have to be careful! You remind me of I Love Lucy, acciident prone! LOL

Cleo, “contains” nudity? :-D

I don’t know! I think todays Rubes better defines Cleo!! LOL

lights just went out got to go. love ya all

Normally I’d agree with you, Doc, that it’s early for Bloody Marys, but with Wifey Bits in Seattle, I’ve decided to throw caution to the wind, don my smoking jacket, and put my feet on the coffee table. Cyber-speaking, that is.

(Actually, I’m at work.)

DAAAAAAAHH STRIP:

Oh, no - poor Winkie - a Mike Tyson moment…….

That’s quite a shiner he’s sportin’, too - all in all, this was a great idea - except maybe for The Winkster……..but, ears can be reattached, right???

What’s that -

SHE ATE IT?!?!?

YIKES - what a monster of a gal - how’d our ol’ Fuzzie-Wuzzie Guy git outta that cage alive?

And, when’s the rematch on CONAN???

Wink will return to his cute self shortly.

Hi everyone. I’m baaaaaaaaaaaaaaaack. My computer crashed last Sunday so my comic fixes have been very spotty since then. I think I’m going into total withdrawl.

I was going to read all the comments but I took a look at them and decided not to. I wouldn’t be caught up for a month. So what did I miss?

So, Serena,

I was wondering about your screen name: is it Serena’s a Kitty or Serene as a Kitty?

Cleo yeah, Winky wrote the book on Grin & Bear It…

serena - Nice to see you back. You missed doctortoon’s birthday party and a bunch of serious in depth analysis of the current state of affairs. In other words we have been trashing the place with our parties and carrying on. Fortunately we have hymenoxis to clean up afterwards.

so im back for now…

Doc aww she calls you papa doc? so sweet your in deep now if your babysitting. so sweet of you. its hard to type with a kid in your lap or in the same room as you. so proud of you

im so tired now im supposed to be sleeping. but i have a kid here insted. well for another 20 mins or so. lol then im hitting the bed till i wake up or till my mom calls me to tell me she is here. supposed to be her for 6:30 she gets here at 5:55 half the time. lol how nice of here.

oh i cut my hair, its bairly to my shirt neck now. (?) lol

oh and also my blind date may not happen, he has to work and so does my friends husband who is supposed to be with us… so im not sure what will happen. :0( i will let you all know when i know.

going pack to go to my moms and do something with my hair real fast. bbl peace and love

wow im doing a lot of hit and runs today..

Shika i hope today went alright. we love you and have a good weekend. (((HUGS)))

CHAT CHAT CHAT!!!

Rad, Be careful!! gamrtin might think you’re siding with him now!!! LOL Of course, WE KNOW BETTER!

Just saying hi before I head out to a viewing at the funeral parlor.

Thanks for your prayers. I’m wrung out though, so I’m going to eat now and hopefully sleep when I get back.

See you tomorrow.

Tabby: I’m glad your Granny is cooking for you, you deserve a little spoiling!

Doc: Ain’t love grand?

Hello all. I really like today’s strip: how nonchalant Wink seems about it. Shika Funeral parlor? I will keep praying for you, but now I am going to take a nap. bbl.

Marg it made me happy as could be also…

im cant sleep, i dont have time to. :0( it realy sucks. im tired.

Sleep well Jdoc

Well, I remember why I don’t like to drive much on weekdays. Last night, I was going by a gas station near our Interstate exit, and a couple of cars didn’t even bother to stop but pulled out from the station nearly in front of me, so I had to jam on the brake. They got on the interstate, and then were beside each other and passing back and forth for the next several miles, until I finally got by them. I still don’t know what they were playing at.

Later another kindly fellow was going about 5 miles under the speed limit, and when I headed for the on-ramp (because he was taking the local road), at the last moment he simply pulled over in front of me to take the ramp. No signal or anything. I slowed way down to let him get way ahead on the ramp–he was halfway down when I was one quarter, and then accelerated as the ramp is designed. At the bottom, I was getting close to him, pulled around him and passed, since I was then close to the speed limit. Well, lo and behold, two miles later he was passing me. Guess he didn’t like to get passed by anyone? Even when he didn’t know which way he was going?

Aaaarrrrrrggghhhhhhh!

We now return you to your regularly scheduled chat.

Wink should be lucky that he only lost an ear!

just putting another deposit into the bank, tabby for your teeth and weekend and bmonk for the few years you just aged on the road.

I need to finish my rounds - only got to the O’s this morning, so now I’m looking forward to see what happened on Rubes.

Akenta gald i caught you. im going to my nannys to eat watermellon and see if it helps with the sore ness. then my mom should be her in a few min so i will be getting off.

have a good weekend and ill catch up on sunday

peace love and hugs all

Thanks, Akenta, though I’m not sure I need a loan from the bank so much as a place to rant a little about drivers who got their license in a box of Cracker Jack. I wasn’t in trouble, just irritated at how they drive.

Yahoo, it’s 102 (degrees) here! Must be 120 in Phoenix.

My driving pet peeve is freeway driver’s who slow down to let a merging car onto the freeway. It is so dangerous and happens so often. If you can pull into the passing lane do it, but if you can’t maintain your speed. It is the other driver’s obligation to slow down until it is safe to merge. Now merging driver’s are almost expecting people to slow down for them.

Marg - I’ll take my 84 degree day.

bmonk: Patience my brother…… ;-) Seriously, I feel your pain. After driving a step van for 18 years, I know that I must constantly watch out for the other drivers, and sometimes it gets tiring…

Cleo: I’ll take your 84 degrees, too.

Doc I’m sorry I missed your birthday party. I hope it was a happy one. Sounds like you are getting in very deep with Papa Doc. If it has gotten that far, there may not be much hope left. LOL. Any way HAPPY BELATED BIRTHDAY.

Rad that’s the name of the game.

DigitalFrog My name is Serena’s A Kitty. Serena was the name of one of my cats.

mmm…watermelon. I love watermelon (and so have all my pups). As an aside, the current pup (Moxie, pictured) managed to steal a cucumber today and ate half of it before she could be persuaded to trade for a dog treat. Last one (Saucy) and Moxie, both love tomatoes.

Tabby: have you ever had Watermelon Rind Pickles? My family has always made them. A lot of work, but sooooo goood.

Just about all I have eaten today is watermelon. Throw in a few blueberries and raspberries and that is the sum total of my food consumption today. Dinner will be a different story.

I’m up! (finally) These naps aren’t working too well. I keep oversleeping. I would rather do that than drive wherever bmonk was driving. Isn’t it a bit early for drunk driving? lol.

Hey johnnyd. It is a slow night here at Big Top. The Tribe must all have been out enjoying the day.

Hi Cleo! I was wondering. I can’t be doing the same because although it is a comfortable 66 degrees here, it is raining off and on.

@johnny, I thought it was far too early for that sort of foolishness, but I guess I was wrong. And I have to admit that normally it isn’t that bad. Must have been an off day.

let’s see what happens when I go to sleep on page 2 - page 8 by the morning?

Akenta, Hi girl! And I doubt we’ll get to page 8 tonight! Some of our best tribe posters are busy elsewhere, including me! I’ll be curious to see who makes first post! Wanna bet me it will be gmartin, who NEVER comes back to check the posts!! LOL

Walter Cronkite at 92 of cerebrovascular disease :-(

Akenta, I saw that but didn’t know the cause. I don’t know what that disease is actually.

Hello all. I really loved Walter Cronkite. I thought that he was the best of the best newscasters.

I don’t know what it is either, I just copied and pasted. Trying to find some happy news before I go to sleep.

Have a good sleep and sweet dreams

Akenta!

I asked my wife and she said it was high blood pressure that causes a stroke.

Cleo, That’s interesting. They were just talking on the news today about this being the anniversay of the moon landing and how he got all choked up reporting the story, but the story was about the anniversay of the moon landing, so he must not have passed at that point.

Cerebrovascular disease sounds like strokes, or maybe precursors…acc. to wikipedia: The most common forms of cerebrovascular disease are cerebral thrombosis (40% of cases) and cerebral embolism (30%), followed by cerebral hemorrhage (20%).

Thrombosis is a blood clot, which would induce a stroke.

Embolism is when a clot or some other glop migrates to the brain, inducing a stroke.

Hemorrhage is when the blood vessels just tear by themselves, inducing a stroke.

At least, that’s what I make of it.

As far as I am concerned he was the last of the great TV newscasters.

Y’all are still on page 2? I was prepared to catch up on about 5 pages.

R.I.P. Walter Cronkite

I am too young to remember him, but it does sound like it was a stroke that did the deed.

Yes carmy, I don’t think we’ll be doing much tonite. I’ve had a frustrating and busy day, and a wedding to attend tmr. so I won’t be on much longer

Dry, same here, but I don’t have a wedding to attend.

Dry - Enjoy your wedding. I have a party to go to tomorrow evening at a house ovelooking the sound. My goal tomorrow is to do a little watering and hope to do some reading.

carmy - I still get a chuckle every time I look at your avatar.

Well, goodnight carmy and cleo! And johnny and Akenta if you’re still here! But I am still curious who will be FIRST !And WHOEVER IT IS better bring breakfast, and not LEFTOVERS!!! LOL!

I hear you loud and clear Dry. NO LEFTOVERS!

Goodnight. P&L!

cleo, I’m glad you find “Heffer” amusing. I already have my next avatar ready. It will be The Groovy Ghoolies.

The other day, I found several pictures I will be using as avatars. Of course they are all toon related.

Good night Dry! Don’t think I will be first tomorrow, but I won’t bring leftovers if I am.

I am not familiar with the Groovie Ghoolies either. I guess I am just old. Are they print cartoons or TV. If they are TV I can be excused as I haven”t had TV for 4 years.

The Groovy Ghoolies are from Archie’s Funhouse that aired in the 70’s on Saturday mornings. The Ghoolies are cousins of Sabrina, the teenage witch.

carmy - I used to read the Archie comics, but never saw the TV show. And I only saw the Bewitched show, so I missed both shows.

I don’t know who they are either, I never read Archie comics, and only remember Sabrina from a TV show.

In between posts I have been hanging out outside. All activity on the lake has ceased and is such a beautiful evening.

That must be nice Cleo. It has been such a cool month here in Michigan, that I haven’t been out to the lakes too often. My computer is going funky on me, so I will say good night. peace and love all.

johnnyd - Goodnight my friend.

cleo, you’re a bit older than me, that’s probably why you never saw the Archie TV show. johnny, that show was on in the 70’s. You weren’t even born yet.

I was wondering where JFri was, but then I remembered that he was going to be scarce for the next few days.

cleo, when you get a chance, this is a clip of my avatar, it’s a 6 and a half minute clip.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yKfsZBe8fnU&feature=related

carmy - I remember those years when wherever I went I was the youngest person there. Now, I am the oldest. : (

you’re not the oldest, I think you’re in the middle.

In the middle. Hey carmy, does that mean that i am middle aged.

I was the youngest of my high school friends. I looked older so I was able to get into the disco’s with no problem.

I guess so, but I am also. it’s okay, no big whoop.

OH MY GOD! I AM MIDDLE AGED. I AM MIDDLE AGED. I AM MIDDLE AGED. Waaaa!

I can’t change my avatar. Something’s up with this website again. >:-(

only 118 posts today. It’s almost time for the turnover.

cleo, go to your happy place!

Hi Marg!