Big Top by Rob Harrell for February 10, 2010

Good Morning Tribe! I went to Denny’s and brought grand slam breakfasts for everyone! I also brought some grits for Akenta. We have nuclear coffee, assorted teas and juices and cocomocha. Also, plain, chocolate or strawberry milk.

Chocolate milk??

Good Morning Tribe

We just got back from the hockey game. Because of the snow storm, they are giving free tickets to those who had tickets for last night’s game. Regardless of whether you used your ticket or not! Pretty cool. My kid is extra excited!

‘Morning Carmy and Terry.

HI, JFRI!!

Carmy, I’ll have some some chocolate milk with my Grand Slam, please. I’ll say ‘goodnight’ now

Good Morning Marg!

Great Breakfast Carmy. My daughter and I got the free Grand Slams at our local Denny’s yesterday. I’m in the middle of eating some cinnamon raisin toast right now. :^)

Good Night Marg!

Going to snow in New England. Got the fire laid and a good book.. SHE WHO MUST BE OBEYED swears there are marshmallows in the pantry so I’d better break out the cocoa.

Morning TRIBE! As excited as a kid hearing “No School!”

Goodnight All!

Good Night Lewreader, Carmy & Tribe

P&L All

Good Morning Akenta. Have a great day.

Good morning and Happy Wednesday. carmy thanks for the grits.

Took me a while to get today’s comic.

Good Morning Tribe

We had an earthquake in Illinois this morning!

Off to finish my toon tour…………………………

Good Morning Everyone!

Dusty’s the anoyan one, not Pete.

Good morning tribe. how does it goe?

Carmy thanks for breakfast. you rock!!!

morning Doc, facny finding you here. :0)

so typing with a taped up thumb sure throws you off, slows donw my typing…. why is that?

and for the record i love Pete!! poor little guy so hurt and all alone. im glad he has someone to talk to.

(((((((((((((((PETE)))))))))))))))))))))))

Good Morning All!

okay im out the door. maybe ill get some food i dont know yet my teeth hurt but im starving! see you all later.

hi digital frog!!!

later gators!

Good Morning All. I am here, Mr. A Noyan.

Hello Doc. How are you doing?

Not only did we have a major snow storm here, but we also an 4.3 earthquake about 4am CST.

Hello DFrog

Good Morning Cleo

Good morning, tribe. Snowing here again, but not supposed to last long.

Doc, not on my house or any of the relatives, but there have been reports of damage around the area.

Good Morning Saucy

Good Morning Terry, Saucy & Doc.

Earthquakes are scary. I have experienced a few small ones and hope that I am long gone when the big one comes.

Cleo, this area is not normally known for earthquakes. I felt the tremor, but nothing bad. Felt as if it was very windy outside with the windows rattling slightly.

I didn’t get this at first either, Akenta. Now I’m laughing! They look so cute sitting there together!

Lewreader or should I say Rumpole?, you and I did this round once before I think! * “She who must be obeyed!*

Good morning all.

Well, I have many things to do again today, so I better get a move on. This is a hectic week.

Have a nice day everybody!

P&L Tribe

Dry, are you getting a lot of snow? I’m sure someone would appreciate a huge snowapult of it in Colorado. I thought it would be warming up here, but this morning it was in the 30’s and quite windy, brrrr!

Best wishes to those caught in the snow…

Doctor Toon said, about 2 puns ago

“Could Pete be called a Noid instead if he is from Noy? If he had a brother, would they be a pair a’ Noids?”

You do know we are watching you? And are out to get you for that??

When I saw today’s Dennis the Menace, for some reason I thought of our cleo, who loves to wear a smile.

And nothing else.

I heard about the earthquake in Chicago. When I was growing up down by Thornton, we probably got the equivalent several times a year, when they would bring down a few thousand tons of limestone in the quarry.

Later in the week we have a slight chance of a little snow–but nothing to fear. Just this week, the local utilities finally got all the customers hooked back up to power. The storm was only three weeks ago…

bmonk, it’s bad to be without power that long. When we have hurricanes, we’re without power for 2 or 3 days and that’s too long for me. I can’t even imagine going without for 3 weeks.

Good Morning Dry, Carmy & bunnyface.

Goodbye Terry.

Well, it’s really not as bad as it sounds. Most of the last few customers were isolated farms, and they have tractors to which they attach generators. And we know it’s a possibility, so most people are prepared for this sort of thing, if not three weeks of it. However–diesel fuel does get rather expensive…

Carmy we are having a blizzard!

It is so odd that so much of the country is getting such severe weather and we just had the warmest January on record.

bmonk, thanks for enlightening me. I should have realized that the people there would naturally be prepared for the winter. Dry, are you okay? Do we need to send you food or provisions? I’m kidding. :) Cleo, try not to rub it in.

Carmy we are just making up for last winter when we got so much snow followed by such warm rainy weather that I had nail on board on one of my pilings to keep my dock from floating away.

Doc just about everything around here is shut down.

@DocT, I usually forgive puns. If I can defend myself with another.

Remember: just because you’re paranoid, it doesn’t mean they aren’t out to get you.

good morning Tribe i’ve been a bit too busy to keep up lately, but i’m trying to catch up now. hope Dry stays safe (and sure she will) and sorry to hear Tabby has a “taped up thumb” (as my old Doctor used to say when i walked - or limped - into his office, “What have you done to yourself this time?”) time to start reading toons!

Hi bunny and yguy!

Good Morning yyyguy.

I have to go into town to get more paint, because of the actions of certain Tribe members. BBL

not me! my “art” is photography not painting!

Cleo, we need some more iridescent pink. please!

Hi yyyguy!

hi Carmy iridescent pink? sounds like a good color to me!

Yes that is the perfect color. We should use it for Cleo’s bathroom!

Morning, Dry, yyyguy, cleo, Carmy, Doc–I’m back for a bit before lunch.

I really think that iridescent pink needs a sparkly, umm, burnt orange to set it off properly. What do you think, Dry?

no, just pink - in varying shades.

Yeh, I could see that. Let’s limit it to no more than nine?

If you guys could actually see the inside of our house you would realize that some of your color “jokes” are not far off. For example: tart margarita, sonic lime, baguette, jalapeno orange and the color I just picked up today is drizzle. Sounds bleak, doesn’t it, but it is actually a pale blue.

no, cleo “drizzle” sounds like a cool name for a color. anyhow, Tribe time for me to say sayonara again (and i only got as far as bloom county). i guess i’ll have to finish the catch-up later. peace, all.

Cleo we can put sparkles in the drizzle paint to liven it up a bit. BBL.

Good idea Carmy!

DOC I hope you see this, I am proud of you! :-D

You people need to buy some canvas and put your painting “skills” to a better use. I mean think of Jackson Pollock.

See ya yguy! Have a good day!

Cleo what ever happened to normal color names? Like red, blue, beige, of course it sounds boring, but at least you know what the color is! LOL!

This is weird. It stopped snowing again.

Dry I know, with our color choices you think of food, alcohol and weather conditions.. for example; snow white. LOL

cleo, your house is our “canvas”!!!

Dry and snow white is the color of your world. snerk

Yes Cleo, at the moment, it CERTAINLY IS!!

We have white snow again, but until late last week, it was getting progressively closer to “snow gray” or even “snow charcoal” in places…

bunny yes, this will be around for awhile to get all dirty and crappy looking!

I stop by for one of my favorite canceled comics and step into the Waltons! I loved this comic and the free grand slams. Fine date idea for the flounderingly employed.

Eww, snow is only pretty when it’s white.

Cleo, I got some sparkles for the paint. Ooh, and I found some really cute pony stencils too!

OOH Carmy, ponies? Yay!

cleo, in YOUR case, would it be the Polar BARE Club??

Carmy, got any seahorses??

Howdy JFri. Emphasis on bare.

Are you guys creating a nursery?

JFri, sure, I got seahorses and some jellyfish.

Nah, cleo, our IMAGINATIONS are fertile enough!! SNERK!!

Hey, painting crew, in keeping with cleo’s food name theme for decorating, how about using sprinkles instead of sparkles??

Oooooooooo, jellyfish!! SCORE!!

JFri, only if they can be multi-colored sprinkles because I have TONS of those.

Deal, Carmy!!

Uhhhhhhh, cleo, what’s that over there? (Sneak by painting crew!!)

Keep it up and the Tribe will be going from the Big Top to the Big House.

Cleo, don’t you want your walls to have some texture?

Good Afternoon Tribe

Back for the day and just checking to see what’s going on. They have cleaned everything up very well from last night’s snow storm. Streets are in great condition.

Hello Terry.

JFri, you guys have already texturized my walls enough already.

Hello Cleo. I’m bouncing around the comics I didn’t have time to get to this morning.

cleo, I didn’t say anything about texture…..

If we want texture, there’s always some mashed potatos we could use…

Hey Cleo, if there’s no snow at the Big House, I’ll go!

Hi Bunnyface(Bmonk)

Hey, Terry! I think they need the snow equipment from the East half of the States over on the MidAtlantic coast…

BF(bmonk), I think you’re right ……..

It looks like we will get a dusting of snow the next few days, but only just a dusting.

It’s so funny to change your avatar and post with the new one without renewing the page–you can see both avatars at once!

Cute bunny, bunny! :-D

I found a bunch, so I may keep this handle for a while yet.

Good!

Sorry JFri it was Carmy. I am being running frazzled. Two trips to town to buy paint today, just to keep up on correcting your wanton destruction.

How many houses are you painting Cleo?

Just one, but he has plenty of help!

johnnyd I have a living room with a 22 foot ceiling and it is taking at least 4 days to have painted.

bunnyface “help” is not the word I would choose to use in the case of the Tribe.

Cleo* how do you clean up there? Seriously.

@cleo, but “help” is rather nicer than a more…accurate word.

Unfortunately I have not been able to find an extending pole that reaches that high, so we aren’t able to clean the very top. We get a crew of window washers in and they get around the area for us. We have our windows washed once a year so that is about the only time it is cleaned.

Well, I wouldn’t worry about that! It probably doesn’t get that dirty and people don’t spend their time looking at ceilings. Of course, they would look the first time just to see it. I’ll bet it’s very nice!

bunny you mean “help” as opposed to “hindrance”? :-D

good evening Johnny? You had school today?

Everything is painted now, so I have a real feel for how the paint has altered the room. We hired a paint consultant to come in twice, because if we made a mistake in color choice it would be costly. I was worried because we painted 3 walls a dark brown-green (superior bronze, one wall a tan-gold-yellow (baguette) and our stairway wall orange-red (jalapeno) and our french doors a light pastel blue (drizzle), so you can imagine how nervous we were with the choices. As I said Dry we have a very wild color scheme in our house. Our goal was to make our living room seem warmer and smaller and it worked. We have some very colorful large art pieces and a wool abstract floor rug that sits on light stained oak flooring and the paint will go nicely with our art work and furniture. Our new couch and love seat will look great in the room now. Friday a guy comes in to install a new ceiling fan which we are going to drop down six feet from the peak in the ceiling, now I am worrying about the extra 3 feet it will hang down from our previous fan.

Tomorrow two walls and two doors get another coat of paint and then they are installing scaffolding for the guy who is going to hang the fan.

When we redid our church about 10 years back, we went with lighter colors to open it up a bit, and tried to get local tones: pale sky blue, scoria, light green-olive, tans. It worked nicely.

Wow Cleo! It sounds VERY nice indeed! Why are you worried about the ceiling fan length? If you were as tall as JFri I could see why, but otherwise, that doesn’t seem so much.

cleo, who ever saw an orange red jalapeno?? Every one I ever saw was green!! Maybe it refers to the color of the fire coming out of your mouth if you get a real hot one???

It is funny, we had the outside of our house painted two summers ago. We are situated with our house being on a hill and their is a small canyon and creek behind our house and forest on the other side of the creek. We wanted our house to blend in with the forest and the colors we chose did a lot to do just that. We just discovered that our living room colors are very similar to the outside paint job, minus the jalapeno red.

JFri you are right, most jalapenos are green but they can also be red.

Dry because when you stand on our landing and look out at the lake our old fan is above our eyesight. The new one will be in our line of sight.

I AM HOME!!! FOR GOOD TODAY!!!

okay had a math test in class, i think i did good, i PRAY i did good

Yes Cleo that could be a problem. and yes, jalapenos can be red. Just ask the girl who eats Scotch Bonnets raw!

can i just go to bed now?

Tabby Lynn Is saying… forget hw for tonight, go take shower eat supper, and visit with walking buddy then watch a movie and fall asleep. :0)

bbl

Hello Tabby enjoy your evening.

Dry you and I would have a good time eating together. I like very hot foods as well, although as I age, I am not going as all out as I used to, just because other flavors suffer with to much heat. The only person I have met who could take more heat than me was Persian.

Come to think of it Dry you may have me beat as well. I do not think I would get much pleasure out of eating a Scotch Bonnet raw.

I do occasionally like to imbibe a nice single malt scotch while staring at a comely lass in a bonnet though.

Time for din din. Sayonara

Cleo You are a riot! I would like to try those peppers Tabby had the link to. Never heard of them before, but I would at least give it a shot to see if I could do it!

Dry, I must have missed Tabby’s link, what kind of peppers were they?

The preceding comments were deleted in an attempt to protect the innocent if anyone read them I would appreciate them passing the messages along. ( : (without my name)

I like spicy food. I do not like to “set my mouth on fire hot.” Power to those that do though!

Well blippity blip blip blop bloopers. I just stopped by to edit my previous entry so that it would not be used to further prejudice and these bold letters with my name tempted me to read comments. And as we all know I have trouble with temptation.

Whyfore do you have to be nice?

I would like to try again. If I get too outrageous, I would appreciate it if someone directed the phrase No More Coffee For You! at me. Sometimes I have difficulty realizing when I am getting carried away.

Hm, aren’t the red jalapeños the ones that aren’t ripe yet?

Carmy, No they’re the ones that are hotter. They come up with new varities every year. In the deep depths of winter, I review my seed catalogs very carefully! :-D

Um….. I would like to try again but with the current target status, I think it best to wait at least a few days.

Goodnight

I’m hungry for Fruity Loops, oh wait, it’s Froot Loops, isn’t it? Don’t know why, but I saw an old commercial with the Tucan bird and he was hungry for FROOT LOOPS!

Don’t remember if I dropped in yesterday or not, but I can’t stay tonight. Just letting you know I’m alive….

I didn’t know jalapenos could be green. I’ve only seen the red ones. weird.

Hi Shika!

Hi DRY!

Bye DRY

Good night all!

Love Ya!

cleo your place sounds great. I’m glad you like it!

wait until you see our magnificent painting job we did at Cleo’s. Dry, Froot Loops are good, but I go Cuckoo for Cocoa Puffs!

went see walking buddy and got locked out of my own house! what kind of people!?

It is wonderful! I wish I could have helped!

Dry I like Frosted Flakes! They’re GRRRRRRRRRRRRRREAT!

hi Shika hows it going sis.

It looks like I am surrounded by dames. In other words, I am in paradise.

cleo now that song about the dames is stuck in my head, and i dont remember quite how it goes

Tabby sorry, I am not familiar with the song. I hope that you rock on.

Tabby sorry, I am not familiar with the song. I hope that you rock on.

Tabby sorry, I am not familiar with the song. I hope that you rock on.

Tabby sorry, I am not familiar with the song. I hope that you rock on.

Tabby sorry, I am not familiar with the song. I hope that you rock on.

I am having posting problems. Good night, as I am getting nowhere.

Tabby sorry, I am not familiar with the song. I hope that you rock on.

Cleo, it’s not your fault, the site went cuckoo.

@Carmy, does that make this site a Noyan?