Big Top by Rob Harrell for December 07, 2009

Brunch is a good thing.

crap!!! not again

haha cleo is first not me. :D

Cleo in response to yesterdays comic. thanks i understnad. you always sound so wise its cool. love ya back

Gosh…I was not expecting to be first. Dagnab it.

Wild mushroom frittata. Scrambled eggs with roasted garlic, peppers and pancetta Barbacoa burritos Fresh Fruit Chorizo, egg & potato saute smoked salmon, bagels and lox. Roast garlic, roasted pepper and roasted potato scramble. Doc’s coffee CocoMocha Fruit Juices Assorted teas Screwdrivers Champagne

Sorry Tabby–I was helping Wolfangil with RL.

Cleo, I will have the smoked salmon, bagels and lox! YUM! YUM! AND your roasted potato scramble, ANd your choizo, egg, and potato saute, AND your champagne, and . . … Is there a limit on my plate?.

Thanks Cleo!!!

Dry what did i tell u about eatting so much before going to bed??? come on girly lol

Terry was going to ask what kind of test u have tomorrow.

Cleo, I’ll have a screwdriver for a night cap. I have not been eating well lately and food doesn’t look all that good to me. One more thing to tell the Pulmonary Doctor tomorrow!

eggs and water please.

Tabby

Blood tests for 1) Diabetes 2) Liver 3) Cholestorol Bone density test(side effect from meds) Hopefully another CatScan for my lungs!

BTW, That one is being deleted soon.

cool deal have fun

Thanks a lot kid! That’s a reassuring reply!

Mass quantities of food to Dry. Screwdriver for(((((Terry)))))

Tabby????? eggs & water?????

had to much sugar today, well last night. think thats why i have a headache. go figure i need sugar then i dont need sugar. sigh. sorry okay fix me something and ill eat it hows that? LOL

lonewolf what do u want me to say there? im lost. it will be fine dont worry. im not good at that thats why im not becoming a doctor. lol

Good Morning Marg!

’MORNING CLEO, TABBY, DRY, AND TERRY!

Thanks for the screwdriver Cleo.

I’ll have the roasted potato scramble, a screwdriver, and some English breakfast tea, thanks!

morning Marg!! hows it going?

Good Night Carmy, Tabby, Cleo, Marg & Dry

Good Night All

Peace & Love Tribe

Tabby, I’m going to bed, tto, so goodnight all.

Marg i am about to als. night love ya girl.

peace and love tribe.

good night all

Good Morning and Good Night Cleo, Tabby, Terry, Dry and MerryMarg! Marg, I don’t remember if I told you that I love your avatar, it’s so lovely.

shika move to tell Carmy goodmorning and goodnight

LOVE YOU GIRL!!!

shika move to tell Tabby to go to bed, NOW!

Love you too, Girl!

Good morning and Happy Monday. cleo thank you for breakfast.

CLEO I’ll take a chance and have assorted teas, whatever that may be. I once ordered assorted pies and the waitress looked at me strange.

Good Morning Tribe.

Lunner? That’s new to me but I’m game. It sounds like food so count me in. I think I found some fresh Krispy Kremes in the pantry over in the corner. I tried one and it seemed OK if anyone else would like to partake. I brought a variety of chilled milks and mixes. I think I smell CocoaMocha on the warmer over there.

Good Morning Akenta, Lewreader & Dcguys

Okay good morning all i am up and not happy about it. My headache is back also. :0(

carmy i went to bed trust me i didnt even see your shika move till just now. lol

okay studying/craming to do. please pray and taking luck form the trible bank

Good morning all!

Good Morning Doc, DFrog & Tabby Lynn

Doc, Woke up to 2-3 inches of the white stuff! :-)

It’s only 27 degrees so it’s not too cold either. Still getting snow flurries but not snowed in.

Good morning all! Still no snow here, but the suspense is killing me!

Good Morning Mopar & Johnny

Good Morning all. It is a crisp, clear 20 degree morning here.

Mopar

After my appointments, I’ll be getting started doing the same as you. I’ll be playing with that most of the week.

Off to the VA Hospital. Be back when I get back! P&L

Good Morning Cleo

Outta here!

Good luck

(((((Terry)))))

Doc how was the Christmas Party?

okay studying done…. well notes are all answered so now brush teeth grab licens and pen and money and notes and then out the door.

see you all later on.

Doc no nuclear coffee??? How can you function man?

Good luck Terry!

Off to class, bb in one hour.

In case you missed it amid the yapping, there was an apparent use of DocT’s Nuclear Coffee over at Pickles yesterday…

BTW,

Gut morgen, alles!

Good Morning Akenta, Lewreader, dcguys, Terry, Tabby, Doc, DF, Johnny, MoPar, Cleo and bmonk!

Doc, your cat avatar is trippy. I think it’s trying to hypnotize me.

So Doc did you spend the entire time in the bathroom?

johnnyd, Carmy & bmonk good morning.

Okay, Doc’s kitty, I just got back from the store with some kitty treats… Wait, what just happened?

Good morning! Well it is cloudy here, I best check the weather forecast.

Good morning Everyone. I finally got a day off [four of them actually] so I have time to stop in to say hi.

Cleo breakfast sounded great. Am I too late for a little bit.

Carmy you have to be careful around some of Doc’s cats.

Doc please. I can accept that you like snow and cold but really you don’t have to share that. We got some snow, not much I guess but a LOT of wind and it is #* WAY* too cold. Please take it back. [Big push to move this arctic front toward the south]

For those here who love spicy food, enjoy!

Good Morning Dry and Serena! Serena, I think I need to avoid making eye contact with Doc’s kitty. It’s 62 and partly cloudy in FL.

If it’s zero degrees out today, and it’s supposed to get twice as cold tomorrow, what temperature will it be then?

@catnip! @catnip!

Why do I have this urge to go roll in a patch of garden herb?

bmonk: zero degrees?

good morning bmonk. DocT, serena, Carmy, Dry, Cleo, & Johnnydoc and a belated “Good Luck” to Terry. just a quick ‘drive by’ (so to speak) as it’s 12:22 in the Great White North and I have things to do before work time. It’s 34F and we have snow flurries happening (at last), though it will have to do better (worse?) than this if we’re going to have a White Christmas.

bmonk another Tundra fan, I see! I love those strips!

Boy johnny, that was quick!

celecca said, about 17 fine whines ago

”Great! Leave me with the sextuple amen!

”:-}”

Have you ever happened to notice in the list of Popes, there are Sixtus I, II, III, IV and V, but nobody ever decided to become Pope Sixtus Sixtus?

hi yyyguy!

bmonkf what a BAD pun! From one Catholic to another!

If I ever become Pope (unlikely) I’ll be Pope Sixtus the Sixth… maybe. Dry, just the one “early” class today, and since my biology classes are canceled for the rest of the semester, I don’t have my one o’clock class. That means a longer lunch break. Hey say, it’s snowing here now, but will it stick?

johnny according to Accu Weather, a dangerous blizzard is forecast for Colorado to Wisconsin. Then I guess it moves east, yippee, NOT!

as for being Pope, I had that discussion with my parents a couple of years ago on a car trip. Dad made the point that, technically, I could even become Pope, and I replied that I would likely become Pope Impius I. and on that groaner, it’s time to say TTFN. for those who need some karma,

(((Tribe)))

@jdoc, that’s what I say–which is why they wouldn’t dare elect me Pope…

Snow from Michigan to Maine, Monday-Monday night. The east will receive a wintry mix after the snow arrives here. This forecast brought courtesy of Craftsman snow shovels!

just wondering, has there ever been a Pope James?

I don’t think so yyyguy. bmonk, they’d never elect my either. Too many ways to abuse the name-deciding. It is still snowing, could this be the first snowfall of the year for East Michigan. (West Michigan was buried last week in snow with the promise of more to come.)

But, technically, every male adult Catholic is eligible to be elected. Just as I am eligible to be elected President.

Like either one is gonna happen.

i wouldn’t bet on it, bmonk, but that never was a problem for me, I didn’t want to do either.

Back to work for me, I’ll be back much later I think. Snow seems to have stopped, or become rain.

I’d vote for you Doc. And now I’m off!

How about dinner then, if you are not available for brunch.

Good Morning Dry, serena & yyyguy

serena it is never to late for breakfast.

Sorry I missed you doc! I’ll be around later to

WAKE YOU UP!

Hi Cleo! I’m getting out my Chirstmas Decorations, but first I need to call Ehrlich!

HOME!!!

Okay so all of that studying and i get to the test and i look up and pray a little prayer, open the test and wish i was dead. ALL the ones i did not know were on the test. So all i could do was pray, but you know what, its okay because last time i THOUGHT i knew the test and i flunked it. This time I THINK i dont know it so maybe ill get lucky and pass it?

also got my essay back on the book (in the words of Akenta) that i “didn’t read” and i MADE A C!!!!!!!! haha in your face professor. :0) i made an F on the last/first/whatever one. so i needed that c pluse i turned that 3% essay and got a 3 on it so hope that means i got my 3% i am in a good mood right now, so why ruine it with studying?

DOC SORRY I MISSED YOU BUT I HAVE TO TELL YOU SOMETHING!! I LEARNED SOMETHING TODAY!!!!! ARE YOU PROUD OR WHAT!?

hello? anybody home? hello?

um guess not….. well ill just put this over here like so he he someones gonna trip

then this overe there so when they walk in the snaps will go off (fire work toss down things)

oh and whoppie cussions under these chairs

and now to quitly slip out

la la la la la la la

Hello Tabby. School is all about studying, isn’t it?

cleo it seems to be. see what i wrote on BB about going to college. yuck. lol

so how are you doing today?

oh yea get this it snows friday night here in LA, then its in the 70’s today, and raining i could be in shorts and flip flops what the heck!!! man that is so louisiana for you grrr.

I am fine Tabby, but I would like to have your 70 degree day.

helping my mom with her hw bbs. sigh

why is it she decied to go back to school and yet i get stuck helping her with her homework. not like she helps me with mine.

I have just put out an assortment of fine chocolates. Somehow I can’t get chocolate out of my mind lately. LOL

cleo, im about to search my house for chocolates i seem to have chocolate on my mind also. lol

okay moms hw is done for now.

I am sad to report that my das is home early so i guess ill have to look like doing some studying. bleeep my luck

haha he is gone…. well the last trap did not work so….. um lets see.

bucket of water over this door

cake on this one

waterballons ready to launch

snow ball courtise of Doc

Good afternoon, tribe.

We usually call a meal that combines lunch and supper “lupper.” I’m from VA so “dinner” is a noon meal on Sunday. Weeknights we have supper.

saycy hi! how are you doing today?

So this is my new kitty…. dont ask the name i cant remember they keep changing it.

he thinks im a pillow.

Good Afternoon All.

I’m back from Doctor’s appointment and tests. Same old @$%&!

Kind of quiet here I see. BBS

Sorry to hear that Terry. This afternoon was going fantastically well for me until about an hour ago, and now I am very angry with the idiots running this school.

Hello Saucy. My relatives in ND have dinner at noon as well.

I am so sorry ((((Terry)))). This has got to be beyond frustrating.

johnnyd what is happening with your school to make you so fed up with school officials?

That doesn’t sound good for you either Johnny. I here that kind of talk out of my daughter a lot.

Hello Cleo.

Yes it is frustrating. Sometimes I wish I was the type to just give in and accept it. But that’s not my nature and there’s too much left for me to do and see in this world!

yes Jdoc is right they people are idiots. thats all i can say also

lonewolf sorry to hear that. :(

its raing yet again im telling u we have a pound in our yard that was not there when i went to bed last night.

They blocked me out of a class I need to take, and opened it up so “everyone has a fair shot at registering” the thing is, there is a reason seniors go first. If a freshman can’t get into the class, they can take it later. Seniors don’t have that option, because they aren’t coming back next year.

Well I must head out again, bbl.

(((((((((Jdoc)))))))))

@jdoc, it reminds me (anew) of a favorite saying:

Nothing can be made foolproof, because fools are so ingenious.

Or, in another formulation:

Whenever something is made foolproof, they invent a better quality fool.

Bmonk so true. lol

tabby is tired, tired of having to do everything tired of having to study tired of being tired, tired of stressing tired of the yelling tired of all the c r a p tired of it all i tell u.

@Tabby, I suggest any or all of these:

Sit down and have a cup of hot Cocoa. With Marshmallows.

Run a hot bath and soak until it gets cool.

Take a nap.

Find one thing you can do and finish it. Be sure to cross it off any lists. Even if you have to make a list to cross it off.

Gotta go–have a busy evening coming up.

Bmonk thanks

you are great. lol im just losing my mind. not getting enough sleep and to much stress. im not stressing about my english final but i have stuff due tomorrow at 8am and my mom keeps bugging me to help her with her homework and dad is just being dad and brother is sleeping in the living room. ahhahahhhh

Hello Bmonk & Tabby Lynn

Take it easy Bmonk

Where are you at Mopar?

by Bmonk

hello you two..

What timing Mopar! LOL

Mopar, I like that avatar. It stands out better than a few of the others.

great one more flipen thing added to my list of flippen things do flippen do. AAHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

Hey Mopar, you still around? Left you a message at BB.

bbl going get cleaned up and take a break form the stress

I am back again. My goodness Tabby, you are way to stressed for a person of your .

So Terry more puzzled looks from your docs?

Yes Cleo, more of those looks. I even told him not to look at me for the verbal answers!

I need to get ready for pool. At least I can forget for a while if one of the side effects doesn’t slap me in the head during my match! LOL

BBL P&L Tribe

Terry good luck in your tournament buddy.

cleo you telling me!!

back again. feel a little better now. back to work i go

Pretty kitty, Tabby!

Hello Dry, you have been rather scarce today. How has your day gone?

Were you scarce because it took most of the day to dig yourself out of the heavy snowfall that seemed to catapult it’s way to you form Colorado?

dry thanks he is cute, but i still dont know its name last i heard it was something like minny minny but who knows it started off as Tony and now this.. lord knows

Cleo no snow yet, just cloudy all day. Winter storm watch in effect though from Tmr. pm into Wed mrn.

BLAST YOU DOC, THIS IS ALL YOUR DOING!

Dry you are more then welcome to come and stay with me. its 63 now it was 70 earler, but its raining.

time to eat bbl

Tabby packing my bags, girl!

Oh boy! They have one of those Christmas specials on! That should be fun.

Already sick of Christmas music: One of my faves, enjoy!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WGoQNXWgopg

Dry im waiting. hurry up.

DOC good evening did u sleep well?

so i am amazed i set up all kinds of traps and on one got caught inone???? come on people

Sorry Doc! I was getting into John Mellencamp!

Almost packed Tabby! Had to dance around a little as I was packing my bags!

Dry LOL now if you find me and show up ill be one happy little thing.

I haven’t been listening to Christmas music, but now I think I might like it.

johnny we listen to the radio at work, they started playing Christmas songs before THANKSGIVING and I am just sick of it! There a couple of songs I like to hear, but I’m tired of it already. And since my dad just passed away a couple months ago, and my kids grandpa, it’s kind of hard to get into it this year. we’re trying though. we still do some fun Christmas stuff!

Tabby yes that would be FUN!!!

Dry, it is tough that next Christmas, and the past few years have been rough in that regard for me too. I don’t think it will ever be the same, but that doesn’t mean it has to be bad.

okay can i cry now or later!?

this song is going to have to perk me up.

enjoy

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wzMeaICn9m8

Why would you need to cry Tabby?

jdoc bc i cant do everyhing im trying to do. dad just fussed bc i have a d in a class and the kitchen is a mess and im doing stuff for school and hes just fussing and fussing and complaing and tells me ur cousins are proud of you for going to college, then turns around and says pick up your grade. and then do the disehs. wth

It is tough right now to get everything done right now, but I enjoy doing the dishes, I can listen to some tunes and not worry too much about schoolwork. As for the grades go, they will have to go up, but you can do it. You are a bright kid, you can get those grades up. It is good to be a role model for your cousins, but it won’t be easy.

@ Saucy, if you combine Sunday dinner with weekday supper, do you have a “sinner”?

Hello

TRIBE

TABBY

I agree with jdoc You can do it. Tell your Dad you need to concentrate on your grades by studying, not cleaning.

Carmy

What’s you day like so far?

Doc

Keep your snow to yourself. We are getting a storm on Wednesday, and I think that you are sending it! No fair.

Just so you can see why you shouldn’t send snow:

PACK, PACK, PACK.

SHIKA, SHIKA, SHIKA, CLICK!

WHOOSH!!!

And on that note, I’m outta here again to work some more.

BBML

shika i got nothing love.

never mind that i do

okay peope out i go back to studying peace and love

DRY

How’s Brett? Still playing well?

Hi again.

Doc if you do run for president, can I vote for you even if I’m Canadian? A few years ago we had a party in Canada called the Rhinocerous Party. They were the only ones who told the truth in all their campaign promises when they said they stood for nothing and wouldn’t do anything if elected. They were a joke party but I would have voted for them.

((((((((((((((((((((Lone wolf))))))))))))))))))))))))

Abig deposit to the bank for anyone who needs it.

Hope you get good news Terry. sound’s like a tough time for you.

johnny Oh don’t misunderstand, it’s NOT bad, just different and some of the spirit has left me, but it’s NOT all gone! It’s still in there,it just takes longer to resurface! :-)

Tabby please relax. Life should have some fun in it.

I was just reading the peer review of my paper, and I noticed the guy revising it is a jerk. If I cared about writing at all, I would be offended, but writing and biology should have nothing to do with each other.

Very true Dry. I was saying earlier that some Christmas spirit was poking through in me. It is a good feeling.

johnny good to know someone knows a bit how I feel! And I haven’t checked my FF for about 3 days, I expect, even though I won a playoff spot, my score this week is BAD!!!! :-(

for you and me :-), we’ll get the spirit back for Christmas, won’t we? At least a little bit!

Dry, you kicked my @$$ this week!

Off to my football game, bbl.

I did johnny? WHOOPEE! :-)

need y’all help song in my head thanks to dad.

it starts with church bells ringing and says

bells will be ringing silent night. my babys gone i have no _ oh what a chirstmas to have the blues.

DRY

something for you!!

Hello again all. Just had a great dinner and will be watching a movie soon. I saw “UP” last night, what an absolutely wonderful movie. I love how they drew the dogs and their expressions and habits, one of my favorite movies in years.

Tabby, I like that song too. The name of it is “Bells Will Be Ringing.”

Carmy who sings it?

hi mom how is it going today?

i have 3 more to go then im done done done done.

Hello all, I am awaiting my wife to return to watch a movie, but she is currently in that pre-bedtime mode where she wants to get all prepared so that she can just dive into bed when the movie is over. Hello, hello out there.

Cleo lol i know that feeling i am ready to dive into bed now.

Hey Tabby are you still studying, or are you practicing the fine art of study avoidance?

You had better be studying.

Tabby, I don’t know who the original singer for that song is. The Eagles sing it and so does Bon Jovi. Charles Brown might be the original singer.

Cleo i was studying. Now i am finished. i am done i am done i am done. i could jump and sing and dance around i am done.

hehe go me

Carmy thank you. i shall look it up later.

Hi Cleo, I do the “get ready to just dive into bed” preparation too! LMBO!!

so Cleo i googled study avoidance since i had no clue what it was… lol i did that the weeks b4 that is why i am craming now bad tabby bad tabby

Carmy how are you doing sweetie? As I said, I am sitting here patiently awaiting my wife’s return from the all important bathroom routine. :-)

Cleo WE HEARD YE THE FIRST TIME! LOL!

DRY i so love your pic.

Good Night ALL!

Sweet Dreams.

Hey, you all like my new avatar? A VERY DEAR friend had a very dear friend draw this for me! Is that COOL or what?!

Tabby, I think Quentin Tarantino would have a good time naming a movie “Bad Tammy, Bad Tammy”. It works for me.

cleo that is my mothers name. lol

Movie time, movie time.

bye cleo

dry i did something eles go see when u have time please.

Cleo I hope your movie doesn’t turn out like “Knowing”! I could have been in bed and asleep by the time I SAW THAT STUPID ENDING!

bbs. time to pick up and head to room

Cleo, I am doing okay, thank you. Tomorrow is “Scan” day. Nothing to eat or drink, except water, after 6:30am. If I get up early enough I can chug down some coffee before then! Tabby, sorry I didn’t answer you earlier, my computer got mad at me. All is well with me.

Dry, I do like your avatar. Very nice of your friend’s friend to draw it especially for you!

*Well I amgoing to miss MerryMarg and Jfri, but I have been up until 2 these past few nights, and it’s time for this little FHIG to face the work world tmr. so:

HI MARG, HI JFRI GOODNIGHT MARG, GOODNIGHT JFRI

GOODNIGHT CARMY AND TABBY!

Enjoy your movie, Cleo!

Goodnight Dry! Goodnight Shika! (Sorry, I just saw your goodnight)

I’ll be off and on here for a bit.

night Dry

carmy my computer did the same. i had to run outside and move my car. it has been raining since last night and coming down hard. well my front yard looks like a huge lake walking buddy’s * yard is conected tomine by watter now and she live across the road. the water was up to the middle of my shins. so i had to park on the side of the road just barely out of the road. its that bad. its the highest part of the yard. and its a car. praying no one hits it. if *walking buddy would not be sleeping i would call and ask to park in her driveway but she is a sleep its diffrent if i wake her up i would feel bad, but if she wakes me up im okay with it.

well when i went out my computer loged me out and when i loged in i couldnt get on the internet it was frozen

Tabby, I also hope that no one hits your car. Hopefully, the water will have gone down by the time you get up in the morning. My computer didn’t log me out, I think I mis-clicked and it got mad and froze.

carmy i can hope it goes down, but it is going to rain all night and all day tomorrow as well. sigh

Good evening all! Late game for us ended with a loss. Season’s over. Drat.

Well I’m off to bed. Peace and love all!

Tabby, I’ll hope with you. Johnny, sorry about that.

(((((Jdoc))))) sorry bro.

Cramy better yet lets us pray and not hope, the thunder is coming in good.

okay all im out for the night. its almost 12. and i have to get up early need to leave no latter then 6:30 with this weather and the final pray i wont be soaked by the time i get to class. little buddy is staying home tomorrow also.

well peace and love all

carmy dont stay up to late. love you.

Okay Tabby, I’ll be praying! Good night, Tabby. Love you too!

I’m back from pool. Got lucky this time, but won!

Who’s left on here? Anybody?