Big Top by Rob Harrell for November 04, 2010

Good Morning TRIBE!

Good Morning, Tribeandall!

Good Morning, Sojo.

Great menu!

Can I please have the Huevos Rancheros, flour tortillas, beans and rice, some pico de gallo, sour cream and a thermos of Doc’s World Famous Nuclear Coffee?

Good Morning ♠Lonewolf♠!

Sure thing ♠Lonewolf♠, here you are, enjoy!

Thank you kindly, Sojo.

Your welcome ♠Lonewolf♠. :-)

Ew! Gross, gross, gross!

As far as I’m concerned the hidden features can stay hidden.

Hello and good morning everyone Great menu.

I’ll take a hamburger and one of my Big Sisters berry delicious breakfast smoothies

Good Morning Little Sister - Here you are enjoy!

Thank you kindly Sojo and Katrina thanks you too.

Good Evening Sojo, Lonewolf, and Little Sister

Sojo, your menu looks very good tonight. I would also like a Berry Delicious Berry Smoothie, if you would be so kind.

Good night everyone.

Your welcome Little Sister. :-)

Good Morning LuvH8 - Here’s your order, enjoy!

Good Night Little Sister.

Time for my zzzzzz’s.

♪ P&L ♪ ≡≡ POOF! ≡≡

Thank you, Sojo

Good Night Little Sister and Sojo

Good Morning, Lil’ Sister & LuvH8.

Good Night Lil’ Sister & Sojo. Rest well!

Hi Lonewolf

I like the avatar.

I found green and red gummy eyeballs at the store today, I think they will be nice for Christmas decorating. Only $.08 each.

Thank you, LuvH8. Yours is a cute one!

I need to try and get some sleep as I didn’t do so well last night and today was longer than I thought it would be.

Good Night LuvH8 and Everyone

P&L

I’m trying to get on Santa’s Nice List.

Good Night Lonewolf, I hope you can sleep better tonight.

You said I found your picture, does that mean you lost it?

Maybe

Morning Doc Yeah - I’m in agreement….EEEEEEeeeeeeewwwwwwwy! quick toonflagtour then bizzybizzybizzy meetings all day double EEEEEEEEEeeeeeewwwwwy

Pooph

Good Morning, Sojourner, ♠Lonewolf♠, Little Sister, LuvH (Is Good???) Doctor Toon and……

Runs with Beer!

Grog!

Kinda scary out there… (no flags) Shhh

RwB, did you see yesterdays posts by one of the Mods @ Lio?

Good Morning, Doc, RwB & Grog.

I was wondering where you were the last couple of days, RwB. I’m running late on this chilly morning.

did it, Doc all the way through Yes I did, Grog. Did they do the update overnight and I missed it? Kinda bizzy, Terry and if I don’t get to it I’ll miss my first meeting.

Poooooof!

Have a great day, RwB!

With that, I too, must be moving along and try to get some repairs done today.

Have a great day everyone!

P&L

LITTLE SISTER I agree with what you said about clown on clown action. I thought we agreed

NO POLITICS!

Going to diet group group again so I skip breakfast and lie my— off when I get there. Some of DOC TOON’S WORLD FAMOUS NUCLEAR COFFEE would be appreciated though SOJO

Morning TRIBE! I’m ready to blast off to fun and adventure with BT and the Birdbrainiacs. Whoooosh!

Good Morning, ♠Lonewolf♠ & Lewreader

No update, RwB. I just wanted to know if you had seen it.

I’ve seen no spam so far, but it’s still early.

Morning All!

Morning, Digital Frog

We’re off to Old Faithful, gang………

here’s the webcam to see us around 3 pm Mountain time……

we’ll be the two smiling!

http://www.nps.gov/features/yell/webcam/oldfaith_duo.htm

Have fun, MontanaLady

Good Morning from the salty depths.

I don’t know about the spam…..but the menu’s gone.

GOCOMICS……LEAVE THE MENU ALONE. SO WHAT IF A TROLL IS UNHAPPY, IT’S A TROLL. WE THE REGULARS AT BIG TOP ENJOY THE DROOL MENU.

Good Morning, Tribe!

I am with those who don’t want to see the hidden features.

Clowns are creepy enough when they are trying to make people laugh!

Good morning Doctor Toon I will follow your lead.

Go Comics, please read following comment

Could you help me to understand why you are erasing the menu that we enjoy when coming on this comic site? It was left alone until recently…it is fun to have while reading and sharing…Please, may we have our menu?

Quaby hang in there, friend.

≡≡ P O P ! ≡≡ ♪ Good Morning TRIBE! ♪

Hello to all those here!

Thanks, hopeandjoy I’m off today, one of the rare times I can share in breakfast, and the dingdang menu’s gone.

I’ve got bunches to do today, but I’m off tomorrow,too. Catch ya’ll later!

bmonk, I have to love your geometic avatar, or any good mathematically-based avatar.

Good (late) morning, Tribe!

Hi and Bye Quaby!

Hello Johanan!

Hey all I have been busy and signed up for two spring classes. Taking one subject over, not surprise on my part. I’ve been missing a lot of my favorite comic strips. I work on tests on Saturdays. I am glad elections are over. For Friday I go in one hour more though I have a week coming the Admin Assist not interested. Too many days came and went I could have gotten a lot of my time in. At least in Dec I will be off for my special day.

Oh and Little Sister how do you find time with 4 subjects one is memory work to get on with GC?

Greetings Big-Toppers!

Between computer trouble and job searching I’ve been gone a couple days.

Hope you are all well.

Hello Kab - Good to hear from you!

Hello Frankr - Hope everything goes well for you!

Hello EIDo! Sounds like a possibility but I doubt it.

EIDo - It’s getting cold here (more normal temps). Have freeze warnings out now. Corrently it’s 52° here. At least the tree leaves should finally change color!

That is like my tree. It usually turns bright red and the other trees in tne neighborhood all turn yellow. With a long warm spell it will be interesting to see how the trees look this year.

              Tree leave color change.

Pretty trees Sojo and El Disc

A 2 hour-later shout to Frankr and KAB Wishing you both well!!!

Quite chilly today but pleasant too.

Hello HopeandJoy! Thanks, my tree is just starting to change.

POP

My trees changed from green to yel….on the ground. 65 MPH wind kinda shortened the color change…

Afternoon TRIBEANDALL!

Hello RwB! I hope all the leaves were blown out of your yard! :-)

EIDo - Those are leaves. The sun is to the side, almost behind. If I took the photo earlier in the day the light would be better. I just decided to take it this afternoon. Might be able to see it better on Photobucket, 77sojo77. The wind was blowing a lot and took a small photo to post it.

Hi, tribe!

My trees changed to a pale yellow around a month ago. Now those trees are getting bare branches with the high winds we get.

Hello Rmom - With the warm weather we might not have much color this year. :-)

Hi, Sojo! We planted maples hoping to get color, but they’ve never lived up to my hopes in that department in all the years since we planted them. We get some colors some years, but with the winds, they don’t stay pretty for long. I guess that’s why people don’t come here to view the fall colors.

Rmom - A group of us road our motorcycles on the highway in Arkansas in fall for the leaf color one year. It was on of the top three highways in the country for that. Talk about heavy traffic!

EIDo - I think Aspens turn yellow.

Eldo - I’m sure those are maple - we planted them. Back when my oldest was doing Biology, we had to identify a variety of trees. I think we have 10 different kinds on our property, some I had never heard of before. I think I remember what type of tree each one is, although that isn’t something I’m good at. Both my parents were good at plant identification, growing up on farms. I spent enough years before I left home gardening, etc., but just never really got the hang of it. My parents learned to not have me weed, because I’d pull out stuff they’d planted. I did get stuck with picking & cleaning strawberries though - they planted 1000 plants one year.

We saw the golden yellow Aspens when we were on our Wyoming trip this year and also have seen them in Colorado other years. Lovely against the dark green backgrd.

I have a colorful Maple of red and yellow…not a Sugar. It was planted when we bought the house 12 years ago.

Sojo - I’ve been in Arkansas during the fall - it is pretty then. Parts of our neighborhood remind me of that state. It is rather nice to be in an area where much of the trees, bushes, etc. are volunteer rather than deliberately planted, as it makes for quite the variety.

At 4 pm CDT I turned on the site Montana Lady suggested and saw no one. Checked a little later and saw a lady in a red jacket with another person that could have been her….the time on the camera was saying 1:56 etc. so I don’t know…maybe they had gone on Standard time early??

Any red we have seems to be from the sumac. I’ve heard of poisonous sumac, is there a non-poisonous variety? Poison ivy doesn’t bother us, the sumac doesn’t either.

My hubby is from Pennsylvania. I hear the colors are pretty there in the fall, but I’ve never been there during the peak of the season.

Afternoon Tribe!!

I’m glad the yappyness seems to have returned to the Big Top. It’s been a bit too quiet the past few days.

Speaking as a native of Colorado - yes the Aspens do turn. Typically referred to as Golden around here. There are some areas, and some years, that are better than others though.

da strip - I’m not typically afraid of clowns, but I think i’m a bit afraid of that game, and becoming more so by the day…

Ladyhawk - I agree about da strip - that game feature of Dusty’s would scare me away.

HopeandJoy - I don’t think the time is accurate, it doesnt change often. The web cam on the right doesn’t seem to work, I think it’s still the same pic that was there this morning. Old Faithfull updates most of the time.

Hello Ladyhawk!

ElDo - Are you originally from Canada or outside the U.S.? I noticed you use the British spelling of color.

Hi Sojo

HopeandJoy - I was noticing that it didn’t appear to be refreshing. Apparently they were taking the camera’s down mid October to be moved and had said it would take about 2 weeks for them to be moved and rewired. I’m wondering if it just took them longer than expected, and they aren’t back up yet.

Johanan Rakkav, once I made a heavy paper small stellated dodecahedron, but I had to find this great stellated version on the ‘net.

We do get leaf-color changes, most years, especially to various golds and browns–but we also get enough wind that the leaves don’t last long on the trees, and the leaves from Bismarck get raked up in Sioux Falls or Yankton… .

BTW, I always liked the Quivering Aspen leaves–in summer with green backed by silver-white; in fall to golden and silver. Mmmmmm.

Hello bmonk!

Ah, ElDo, I understand. I have been fairly good at spelling most of my life, but once I started reading more British literature, I found I got confused on the correct American spelling of a word sometimes.

LadyHawk When I watched the Geyser on the Left pic, it would change and the people were in different attitudes etc. The pic on the right never changed as you said. Anyway, at one time it looked like the lady in Red sweater was Waving at camera. I just watched for 5 minutes.

HopeandJoy - maybe you did get lucky and see her then. Every time I looked there wasn’t anyone on the left pic, so I couldn’t tell that it had changed.

The time update for Yellowstone seems to be fo the weather info.

We get lots of color change here. Reds, pinks, oranges, yellows,etc.it is really pretty. But aren’t the East coasters supposed to brag about that.

Hello LuvH8!

Hi Sojo,

GoComics is slow for me today. Wouldn’t let me on earlier.

I don’t suppose I could interest you in one combination of cold and allergies slightly used but still working fine?

LuvH8 - No, I need to avoid those! :-)

Good evening Tribeandall!

Finally I am done for the day. Had lunch on the run. Too tired to go to pool league tonight. :^(

Hello ♠Lonewolf♠! - Hope you get rested up tonight.

Lonewolf You had a busy day and deserve a rest.

Hi LuvH8 Good to see you and I think a few of your allergies found their way to me…but I’m coping

Hello again, Sojo

HopeandJoy - At Yellowstone it’s dusk, they’re some people there (the left web cam).

Hi, HopeandJoy & Sojo.

I am going to watch the Bulls game tonight with James and relax.

What happened to your most recent comment Sojo?

It stll updates some so I figured it wasn’t correct. :-)

It does seem as if it is frozen again.

Sometimes it updates and sometimes it doesn’t. As it gets darker I guess it won’t matter! The web cam on the right hasn’t worked all day.

I’ve noticed that one has stayed the same since I went to that site.

Lonewolf and James We get to see the Bulls quite a bit. I like seeing them. Basketball is my favorite. Just finished watching Duke in an exhibition game on the internet…my goodness they looked a bit shabby,,not too sharp! They did some good things too but I bet they are dreading the game film tomorrow.

HopeandJoy, the Bulls aren’t looking too sharp right now either. They’re down by 15 points.

They’re coming back a llittlebut running out of time…hope Boozer can play soon.

Wait a minute, they have another half…right!! Maybe they will get it together…..another turnover…

Yea Deng!

ElDo - I know there will always be disagreements between the Yanks and everyone else on what is “correct” for spelling and pronunciations. But I try to use American spellings as MY standard - others will use the British accepted spelling, and that’s okay with me. It is quite amusing sometimes, my youngest, who has never left the U.S. mainland, has been asked more than once if he’s British. He has just a hint of a British accent, definitely does NOT sound like he’s lived in KS his whole life, which is the case. We’ve got theories on why, but it is still a bit of a mystery.

They can pull it out, but they sure could use Boozer!

Hi, Wolfie & Hope&joy! I can tell you’re watching a game of some kind, but wanted to pop in and reply to ElDo. Tomorrow’s another busy day - gotta head back to the big city and see my doctor. At least I’ve got a good report for him, so maybe he can quit changing my meds, and I won’t have to see him as often. (Don’t mind seeing him, it’s that bill I don’t like!)

When our friends from Brighton, England visit, we play scrabble but MUST use Oxford!!

I had fun in an Elizabethan Lit course I took a few years back… especially with dear Spenser. Oddly it helped me translate my grandfather’s writing and recognize letters. Also, My husband believes the English language gives us a large volume of words from which we can choose to express ourselves…adjectives etc. I need to practice more!!

Hi Rmom good luck tomorrow…

we are watching some basketball and the Bulls are making a run. At half-time I was getting in on your language discussion…interesting.

Hi, Rmom! Glad things are getting better.

NOOOOOOOO!! I am gone to see if I can help the Bulls with my undivided attention.

Hi & Bye, Doc!

Hope (((Wildcheetah))) gets better soon!

Hi and Bye Doctor Toon - I hope wildcheetah gets better soon also.

Thanks, Wolfie! - Me too! Hope&joy - My hubby has a horrible time with spelling - each of our sons have only 4 letters in their first names, which helps him to spell them correctly. Part of his problem is a genetic learning problem, part of it was the educational method used on him. Our oldest son inherited his dad’s learning problem, but does much better at spelling comparatively, thanks to the education he received at the proper time. (Tries to not break arm patting myself on my back.) I read a lot of British literature to the family during our homeschooling years: G.A. Henty, Sherlock Holmes, Brother Cadfael, etc. When my son & I play Scrabble, we’re not as strict with the rules as some probably are. The other person has to accept it as a valid word, but it depends on how far along in the game we are, because closer to the end, we’re not as picky about using proper names, acronyms, etc.

Hi, Doc! Oooo - stomach flu, not good. I only had sinus congestion, although it was trying to get further south. At least, other than coughing, rest was the main thing. Take care of yourself & your honey! (((Doc & wildcheetah)))

Hi Bye Doc Toon…I do hope Wildcheetah does better by tomorrow. It left me in 2 days pretty much.

Bye Sojo, LWolfe and James Enjoy.

Well, time to wrap things up for the night. Good luck to your teams!

Good Night HopeandJoy and Rmom.

Good Night HopeandJoy & Rmom. Catch you two ladies tomorrow.

I could have gone my whole life without that visual.