Big Top by Rob Harrell for July 21, 2010

breakfast Menu:By The Tribe For The Tribe

Lonewolf’s Huevos Rancheros Grog’s scrambled eggs or eggs over easy with sausage or bacon. Lewreaders pheasant egg omelet buttermilk biscuits and gravy with chunks of sausage choice of regular or m&m pancakes or eggo waffles with maple syrup or honey Tater tots, fried crispy potatoes or hashbrown casserole

Cinnamon buns / Cinnamon toast Special steak burgers, mushroom burgers, or smoked bacon cheddar burgers (Comes with French fries or onion rings) Breakfast burritos or tacos poptarts, including DDFENCE EMET’s favorite or toasters strudels Oven fresh Pizza

Gelato provided by Chris Alan, & Johanan Rakkav

Ice cream variety by Ladyhawk, bmonk, or my Big Sister

Beverage: Regular or Doc’s World Famous Nuclear Coffee Starbright’s Divine CocoMocha courtesy of Chris Alan & Johanan Rakkav (Ask for the specials by request) milk, chocolate milk - regular or milkshakes Asst. fruit juices and teas fountain drinks like Pepsi and other sodas (floats also avaliable) Premium or imported beer Bloody mary, margarita, martini Big Sister’s Berry fruit breakfast Smoothies

Well at least Stucco isn’t a were-clown

Or Is He!

I think that I just scared my self silly

Good morning TRIBE & Big Sister.

LadyWolf I’ll have pheasant egg omelet buttermilk biscuits and gravy with chunks of sausage.

But please don’t light anyone on fire!

Oh Yeah! And a martini! THANKS!

Ah! here you go WoodEye I hope you enjoy it.

He’s an Evel clown!

Good Morning, Everyone!

Hi Lonewolf.

Hi, Ladywolf! Great Menu!

Can I please have Huevos Rancheros, beans and rice and Doc’s World Famous Nuclear Coffee with a twist of Johanan’s CocoMocha?

Good Morning, Ladywolf, WoodEye, Coyoty & ♠Lonewolf♠!

Ladywolf, I think I’ll have eggs over easy with bacon & a side of biscuits & gravy, please!

Lonewolf and Grog here are your orders. I hope you men enjoy it.

Good Morning Grog!

Good to see you, man!

I am done toon touring for the night.

Good night Ladywolf.

How was pool, ♠Lonewolf♠?

I won and the team won, so it was good all the way around!

That’s good. Congratulations!

Good night Everyone.

Hello early risers. :-)

Good Night, Ladywolf.

Thanks, Grog!

I’m calling it a night(morning).

Good Night, Grog & LuvH8

P&L

Good Morning, RwB, Doc, Lewreader & Johanan

Good night, ♠Lonewolf♠.

Clown Flambe - just what I always wanted. Ah, the joys of rank idolatry.

How about some CocoMocha with a scoop of Belgian Chocolate Gelato in addition to the usual breakfast, Ladywolf? At the usual time.

Good morning Doc Are we the only ones here right now?

Hi Everybody.

Good morning Doc, serenaskitty, Terry and the rest of the (((TRIBE))) Stop drop and roll!

LADYWOLF

“Breakfast menu by the tribe, for the tribe”

There is a campaign promise I can believe I’ll vote for you for President. Who’s the rest of the ticket? Some familiar names I’ll bet. I’m voting straight BIG TOP ticket. Er, what,s our policy on mental health?

Morning TRIBE! Printer broke down last night. Used the compacted pillow repair for 8 hours. Works like a charm.

Does it involve anything glowing, Doc?

I’ll vote with you. I think the Big Top Tribe would do a great job of running something.

Lewreader what,s our policy on mental health? Keep it all over at BB. I like to wing it.

May I apply sun screen first?

Set us on fire? Oh dear oh dear!

Morning Woodeye, RWB, Yukoneric, Doc, serena, lew, Johanan and Fellow Baby!

Another vote here!

Good Morning, Yukoneric, Doc, RwB, Serena, Lewreader & Dry.

Good Morning, Johanan, Lewreader, Doctor Toon, RwB, Yukoneric, Fellow Baby & ♠Lonewolf♠!

Fire?

Hopefully only about 9 more hours to vacation time!

Good Morning, Grog. I’m hoping for you too.

I wish I could leave early, but I have to go over to the tech center this afternoon. It could be a long afternoon, but at least the drive home will be a lot closer.

hope it comes quicker than you expect. Stay safe on vacation.

Will do, RwB Looks like I could be missing some tropical moisture while I’m gone. Too bad.

Good morning all!

Anyone find it odd in panel 2 that the Mime community were yelling at them?

Good bright and hot morning all

Hello Grog wish you a good time for vacation. ENVY YOU

Good morning/afternoon/evening all. May I have four very young chickens over easy with bacon and sausage and tater tots with an ice cold Coca Cola please?

Good Morning, Digital Frog, Rmom, MisngNOLA & LuvH8

Doctor Toon, even a Staycation is good if you’ve got projects or activities to keep you busy, but better still if you can get a normal weeks wages out of it.

Hello Doc T I be good, no explosions or Ooopses for a while.

Happy Birthday! Rmom Good Morning LuvH8!

Hello Grog & Runs with Beer

Yes, well there seemed to be some concern that the tent itself should still be in place. And I never did find the fireworks.

Rmom HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOU**

Oh oh - I bet those would have been pretty from about 12 miles away. With sunglasses and rad suits and decon units and dust filters…..

Yeah, that would have been fun. (pouting)

Good Night Doc T, Pleasant Dreams

Sleep Fast, Doc

The clock fell off the wall. If it was a minute sooner it would have hit my mother-in-law. That clock was always slow.

See everyone later. Have A Joyful Day!

Good night, Doc

You too, LuvH8

I, for one, hope that the tent will still be standing when I get back.

Bye Bye

Good morning &

It is so nice to have so many “invisible” friends, as my son has dubbed you. In honor (?) of my birthday, I’ll share some funnies…

~ Middle Age ~ Maybe it’s true that life begins at fifty. But everything else starts to wear out, fall out, or spread out.

Hi to all here and bye to those leaving!

Good catch Digital Frog!

I wish we had a calendar or something with everybody’s birthday, anniversay etc. listed so SOME of us [and not only me, by the way] wouldn’t miss them. Any way I hope your birthday is the best with all the peace and love you could wish for.

Thanks, Serena! I did make a “cheatsheet” with birthdays, now I just have to remember to look at it. However, I don’t have everyone’s birthdates. Thanks, Sojo! Those are some great Africa pictures your friend took! Where did he/she take them? My hubby & I went to Africa waaaay back in 1986, and saw wildlife in Krueger Park. Your friend must have had a very good zoom lens to get some of those shots.

Good Morning, Sojourner & serena!

Hello Rmom, Grog, serenasakitty

Rmom - She and others were on a mission trip and had a couple days off for sightseeing. I’m not sure who took which pictures (were all using small digital camers) and did not show other photos to not show people on the public web. It was in Uganda. There are more photos of the rhinoceros but like one I showed they are blurred (probably taken while running!). To see the rhinoceros a few followed game wardens with rifles (on foot) to find them. Were told to run away as fast as they could if the rhinoceros charged! The game wardens would yell and throw sticks and stones to try to stop them so they wouldn’t have to shoot unless needed. After being charged twice they had to leave!

Sojo - We were on a mission trip too, but went to Swaziland. Krueger Park is a game preserve in South Africa. Our pictures were taken before digital cameras, so we don’t have near as many as we would take if we went now. Plus, my hubby had the camera with the bigger zoom. He likes to take a long time to set up a shot, which doesn’t work well in moving vehicles. (We’d only been married a couple of years then. That was one experience that taught me to have my own camera, instead of trying to share one with him!) Trying to take pictures of animals was like a live action “Where’s Waldo?” game. You look at the vegetation, and try to spot the animals hiding, although you don’t know which animals you might find.

Rmom - “Where’s Waldo” is something I might put into the title of the photo of the large tree. If you zoom in and look closely you can find a leopard.

I saw the sunset you took, that was beautiful. When I had a paper route as a kid a saw all sunrises had decided that they were usually better than sunsets. Today it’s hard to take photos of either one without vapor trails showing in them. (if your good and have the time at least you can remove them with software now!)

Sojo - Considering where you live, you probably have a lot of vapor trails. We get some air traffic overhead, but not as much, so I haven’t done any retouching. Cropping is about the only thing I bother doing with the software, although I know how to do more. ~ Middle Age ~ There are three signs of old age. The first is your loss of memory, the other two I forget.

Well, I have to get ready to head over to the Tech Center. Catch y’all tonight for a bit.

See you later Grog

Bye, Grog. See you later!

~ Middle Age ~ You’re getting old when you don’t care where your spouse goes, just as long as you don’t have to go along.

(((((((Rmom)))))))

Good afternoon/morning, Tribe!

Good afternoon ♠Lonewolf♠ - Glad to hear of your good night of pool yesterday!

Hi, Sojo. Thank you very much!

I need to head back out once again.

Have a great afternoon everyone!

P&L

Bye ♠Lonewolf♠, don’t get too hot. :-)

Congratulations, Terry on your night at pool, and thank you for the birthday greetings.

Thanks, DFrog!

~ Middle Age ~

Middle Age is when work is a lot less fun - and fun a lot more work.

@Rmom, LOL!

Another:

~ Middle Age ~

Middle Age is when you begin to be concerned with the hereafter. As in, “Now what in the Sam Hill am I here after…”

Thanks, bmonk! I do have a lot of those hereafter moments…

~ Middle Age ~

Middle age is when it takes longer to rest than to get tired.

As long as that’s birfday, and not barfday….

It’s only barfday if you eat too much birfday cake and ice cream, and then go running around the house like little banshees–or get into the liquor cabinet.

But, of course, you would never do such things…

~ Middle Age ~

Middle age is when you have stopped growing at both ends, and have begun to grow in the middle.

Hello bmonk

Bmonk - Well, I can’t do some of those things. No liquor cabinet, and the birthday cake was polished off earlier in the week (thanks to my sons helping!) If I try to run in the house, it would sound more like a herd of charging elephants than little banshees, and I’d probably hurt myself as klutzy as I am. If I try to eat too much ice cream, I’d get an “ice cream headache” before I could eat enough to make me barf. Thankfully, that means there is little chance of having to clean up that kind of mess. I was so thankful when my youngest got old enough to get to a bucket, etc. before barfing.

See? The greatest barrier to not doing what you shouldn’t do is that you can’t do it.

~ Middle Age ~

Don’t worry about avoiding temptation. As you grow older, it will avoid you.

Hello TRIBE :-)

Hello Rmom……And

@Rmom, that last one reminds me of a friend who said about her husband, a weird duck:

“Many middle-age men fall in love with a sweet young woman. Trust my husband to find a consecrated virgin who’s been dead for 80 years …”

@LW18, cute!

Hi and thanks, Ladywolf!

Happy Birthday Rmom! I hope you have a blessed day!

bmonk - That would be a very weird “duck” indeed!

~ Middle Age ~

A man has reached middle age when he is cautioned to slow down by his doctor instead of by the police.

Thanks, Carmy!

LOL! I’m loving these jokes.

Hello Ladywolf and Carmy

LW18, are you going to the Comic-Con? It starts tomorrow!

He was: son of an ex-Jesuit, who was alienated from the Catholic Church–until his wife, a Presbyterian, discovered monastics and fell in love. And a mathematician, poet, and linguist.

RMOM I’d take you out dancing if your parents would let you stay out late.

TRIBE I remember when I voted for the What Me Worry kid. Alfred E Newman did so good that one candidate only took one state. Now if we could do that to both candidates,—–

Hello Lewreader - Good vote! LOL

Lew - You’d have a real difficult time getting my parents’ permission considering they’re both deceased. My husband might object, and he’s still living.

~ Middle Age ~

Middle age is having a choice of two temptations and choosing the one that will get you home earlier.

Lew, the audacity! Rmom is a happily married woman! Tsk, tsk!

Carmy! I don’t know! I have to work, and I’m usually tired when I get home. Friday is busy for me too. I have to go down to the college that I will be attending for an orientation to get my class schedule.

Aren’t you a comic lover? It starts tomorrow and runs till Sunday. Surely you can swing by there. You can get some cool photos!

Carmy - Maybe Lew is operating under my policy “It doesn’t hurt to ask…”

Rmom, maybe so. (I hope you know I was joking.)

Carmy - No worries here. I know we’re all having fun.

Cool!

~ Middle Age ~

You’re getting old when getting lucky means you find your car in the parking lot.

Lefty O’Doul’s Left Arm has returned home after three years touring the world!

Yes I like comics, and I know about the comics -con. But I can not make promises that I can not keep.

Hello Doctor Toon, glad it’s cooled down for you!

See you all later. I got to take off.

LW18, who asked for promises? I didn’t. I just figured you would really enjoy going to it. I would go if I was still in Spring Valley.

Hi Bmonk, Hi Doc!

Good Afternoon Everyone!

Hi, Doc. Still 88° here!

Hello, Ladywolf, Rmom, Sojo, Lewreader & Carmy

@DocT, looks like we get mid-50s to hi-70s till the weekend. High chance of rain through Friday night. But I don’t begrudge cooler weather to the many who’ve been enduring the 90s and higher this past week.

Bye Ladywolf

Hello ♠Lonewolf♠, glad it’s not too hot there either. It’s 96 here right now.

Hello, Carmy! Anything going on by you?

And I was thinking 88 was hot, Sojo! LOL

Catch you later Ladywolf.

:^)

@DocT, me too–which is why I don’t mind professing stability to West Dakota. I can handle -20 a whole lot better than +100.

I’m with you guys on the cooler weather temps!! LOL

Anything over 80, and definitely 85, means staying where it’s cool as long as utterly possible.

Bmonk, nope, nothing going on here. I did recently take a road trip to South Texas. I said hello and goodbye to Hurricane Alex and went to South Padre Island on the 4th of July. I have to make dinner. I’ll try to BBL.

Bye Carmy

I can usually handle the heat better then the cold but as I am getting older I guess I don’t really care for either extreme!

Same here, Bmonk.

Hi, Doc! It is still plenty warm here. 94F and 52% humidity.

Sojo - I understand about the extremes, but we’re in a place that gets both below 0 and above 100. I’ve not done too well with the extremes either. I usually run colder (really cold fingers & toes) than most people, but if I get too hot, I’ve been known to faint. Thank goodness most places in KS have central heat & a/c now!

~ Middle Age ~

You’re getting old when your wife gives up sex for Lent, and you don’t know until the 4th of July.

Hello Rmom, bmonk, Ladywolf (sorry I missed you) Carmy (same), ♠Lonewolf♠, Sojourner, Doctor Toon & anyone else I may have missed.

I don’t like extremes either, but I’d rather be too hot than any degree of cold.

Hi, Grog! I ran across an old joke in my files about the Yankee that moved to Texas, and how he couldn’t handle the hot weather. But it didn’t seem to fit you that well, especially because I know this isn’t your first summer in TX.

Rmom, no far from it. A summer in Texas makes a summer in Edmonton feel like winter.

Rmom - Hot weather used to not bother me, I worked on harvest two years from Okla. to Mont., rode bicycles across KS and other places sometimes over 100 miles a day over 100 degrees, also long ditances in freezing temps. Rode the Goldwing two hours at 11 below without problem. Now however that kind of thing would be hard to do if not impossible.

Grog - I can believe it! Just spending a week at my in-laws in PA during August was nippy enough that I didn’t want to wear shorts.

Hi Grog

Rmom, I found it hard to adjust to Emonton’s climate when I moved from Montreal. I didn’t wear shorts there often, but one of the natives wore shorts, regardless of conditions from April to October.

It makes me wonder how a Texan would feel under the same circumstances.

Hello Saucy1121

Have to do something for a bit. BBL

Sojo - I started noticing the heat bothering me when I was a teenager. I was working at McDonald’s in the summer and their a/c was broken. Passed out in the middle of taking a customer’s order. So, when I was in high school (same year I think), I carried a box fan from one classroom to the next during the “dog days” of August, because the one box fan per classroom didn’t always get aimed at me. I was extremely popular - everyone wanted to sit by me!

Hello Saucy

Hi & thanks, Saucy!

Grog - I know there are some people around here who persist in wearing shorts, even when it gets nippy. My sons aren’t that way, but I’ve seen plenty of kids around their age (both males & females) who are in shorts when the temps are cold enough that most people are wearing jackets.

~ Middle Age ~

You’re getting old when you wake up with that morning-after feeling, and you didn’t do anything the night before.

Well it can be very nippy in Edmonton in October Rmom, well below freezing in fact.

April, there’s still snow on the ground!

Rmom, that’s starting to happen to me lately!

Grog - Welcome to middle age!

~ Middle Age ~

The cardiologist’s diet: if it tastes good, spit it out.

Gee, thanks, Rmom! :-(

See you later, Doc!

~ Middle Age ~

Doctor to patient: I have good news and bad news. The good news is that you are not a hypochondriac.

Later, Doc

I’m back for a while.

Bye Doctor Toon

Hi, Sojo! I’m still here for now.

~ Middle Age ~

You know you’re getting old when you stop buying green bananas.

(I’m not quite that old yet!)

so am I, but I’m hoping to go to bed early tonight.

I don’t have plans to stay up late either. Pretty much a normal day for me, other than getting birthday greetings, which of course, is really nice.

~ Middle Age ~

It’s hard to be nostalgic when you can’t remember anything.

Grog, are you officially on “vacay” now?

Yes, Carmy. And I’d like to get off to an early start tomorrow, if at possible and beat the morning rush to at least get to the north side of town. Hopefully I’ll leave by 5 AM.

Grog - Have fun on your vacation!

Thanks, Rmom. It’ll be good to get away.

Grog - It doesn’t look too likely I’ll get a “real” vacation this year. Hubby’s work is too busy, and any time he takes off work he will need to be working on the siding, etc.

Grog - Enjoy your vacation!

Quick pop in to say Have a GREAT VACATION FELLOW BABY! Maybe if you’re listening to the radio, you might hear Dr. Fever or Venus! I hear they went to a station down that way! :-D

Rmom, though I get 5 weeks vacation, it’s usually difficult to string 5 days together, especially in the summer. I try to get away once a year, if only for a long week-end. I need the change of scenery.

Thanks, Sojourner & Fellow Baby!

& Fellow Baby that would be awesome, but I thought Johnny worked in Amarillo (the armpit of Texas). I had to visit that area on business nuerous times on business, but I’d never vacation there! NEVER!

Well it’s Bedtime for Bonzo. I may be back for turnover, but if not, I’ll catch y’all next week!

Grog - I understand! I remember scheduling my vacation around the IRS deadlines, etc. The trip to Africa was the only time I took more than one week together, even though after 5 years, I had 3 weeks vacation.

Well, time to head to bed. Good night!

Bye Grog, see you next week!

Goodnight Rmom again, Happy Birthday!

Goodnight all, have a good turnover!

Grog, have a wonderful vacation!!

Much has been said today about Texas summers compared to summers elsewhere. Well, I grew up in NW Ohio and spent my latter teen years (and some of my 20’s) in Tucson, AZ. (with occasional visits to much hotter places in Arizona and California), and I’m tempted to tell my fellow Texans, “You folks don’t know what heat is - not if you live in Houston, anyway.” Yes, it’s bad here in Houston, what with the humidity raising the heat index to ridiculous highs, but I have a little story to tell…

Back in July 1993 I attended a conference in Harrisburg, PA. When I got to that area I felt like I was coming home; the terrain and the climate “resonated” with this born-and-bred Buckeye. There was one unforgettable, sweltering day with mostly clear skies and thunderheads scattered here and there. A woman from the Deep South (I forget just where) exclaimed in my presence, “I thought I was USED to this!” With a knowing grin that only a native to that part of the country could wear, I replied, “There’s nothing quite like a Midwestern summer.” :)

Good evening and night everyone or who is left. I just read Rmom about middle age so funny. She or whoever could add about the up’s and down’s of sleeping for middle age. I’m over middle age heading end of the year to double nickle.

I know I’m definatly too way late to wish Grog a great vacation. I’m pt and I don’t get one. I’m also glad Ladywolf is going to college. Me I advised my own daughter Jr. college first then move on. I glad Ladywolf is one smart young lady. I guess this is my night of not getting to sleep and it’s heading to 11pm.

I wished I lived near the comic-com convention. I like to visit some of the creator’s of comic strips there. There is one from gocomics that will be there.

Pleasant evening everyone.

Hello Ladywolf I hope I’m not here for breakfast. I might have to turn off computer as the room I’m in is diagonal to master room, and I have a lamp light facing to window. What type of college courses are you taking you smart young girl I envy? Your little lion or lepard cub with BD greetings so cute.

Sports medicine and photography to start out with. I’m sure I’ll pick more by Friday.

When we went to AR during summer to say goodbye to my hubby’s brother he short battle and died of cancer, it would take much for the car windows to fog up. and when one got between OK and KS major difference.

I have interest also in Physical therapy, but may have to transfer for that course.

Now that sports medicine sounds cool. Photography there are people doing that to make a living. I know I have a cousin that is doing exactly that after he got laid off. Where my daughter had her hs graduation pictures done a few years later the photo place left I guess the guy retired. You have some fun stuff on photob. On your short story’s you right have you thought about submitting to reader’s digest?

Now that sports medicine sounds cool. Photography there are people doing that to make a living. I know I have a cousin that is doing exactly that after he got laid off. Where my daughter had her hs graduation pictures done a few years later the photo place left I guess the guy retired. You have some fun stuff on photob. On your short story’s you right have you thought about submitting to reader’s digest?

That would work with sports injuries.

With so many people looking for work and your a young lady you will have a good chance of getting work. Since you also with on a ranch.

Not really thought of the readers digest thing, but I do work with a writing group just for fun.

I heard of some taking online internet courses but not sure how great or expensive that is?

I don’t anyone that is doing that so I can’t ask about it.

It’s called being creative. This writing group could get a novel going. Good imagination. I hope not like the strip from C&H. I forgot, part of middle age, what type of stories you write. I’ve been reading a novel on a murder mystery over half done and a lot of twist. So far the murder and trying to solve it has been done in a week’s time. A Dr. is in trouble suspected of murdering a Director of a hospital. Sleep is not going to happen for me :(

Shucks. Since you have to get up tomorrow don’t let me keep you. I have a am Dr.’s appointment about lab tests. I sorta get used to at time of no sleep then other time I sleep. No caffeen either. And I read what you told me about sleep problems, the only problem is I’m an early riser at about 6:30am to 7am. I guess I better go. Have fun with your menu Ladywolf I didn’t mean to bore you.

Kab Buch I mostly write fantasies, and am currently working on one right now.

Sounds interesting. What type? It’s almost 11:30 pm here. I can read you answer later work hard on your writing. You sound like a busy creative young lady and a job too. Soon college will keep you hoping. I just wish you had your younger friend’s to talk to. Time for me to go to other room. Looks like it will be much later for sleep. Good night again Ladywolf I enjoyed our visit you talented young lady.

Any type that comes to my mind.

Good Evening Tribesters!

Been working with Windows7 this evening and am finally finished. Much better.