The Dinette Set by Julie Larson for September 19, 2011

  1. Mr peanut
    leakysqueaky712  over 13 years ago

    Good Morning Marg, Susan, Mike, et al.

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  2. Mr peanut
    leakysqueaky712  over 13 years ago

    Iā€™m gonna assume that the Pennys donā€™t have a ā€œsmart phoneā€

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    mikie2  over 13 years ago

    Probly hear more interesting stuff and get better responses at dinner listening to the police scanner than to the Pennysā€”-or even to the clock ticking.

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  4. Emerald
    margueritem  over 13 years ago

    Mikie I had both knees replaced at the same time, have no regrets what so ever. Can ride my bike 27 miles at one time.Best of luck, and do your exercises. Youā€™ll be ship-shape in no time!

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  5. Emerald
    margueritem  over 13 years ago

    And Burl is off to witness more tragediesā€¦

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  6. Emerald
    margueritem  over 13 years ago

    Good morning Leaky,etal!

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  7. Emerald
    margueritem  over 13 years ago

    Joy is drinking ā€˜Firewaterā€™ā€¦

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    LLABDDO  over 13 years ago

    Burl can wear his civil defense hat, tell people to stand back.Then come home and act like a Hero.

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    SusanSunshine Premium Member over 13 years ago

    Good morning, Leaky ā€“ and Mikie and Marg, and GymShoe and Grogā€¦ and Dave andā€¦.. donā€™t want to leave anybody outā€¦..butā€¦ā€¦.Iā€™m running out of breathā€¦. so thatā€™s why I usually say ā€œHi everybody.ā€

    Staying back 500 feet from Burl is easy. Itā€™s getting any closer Iā€™d find difficult.

    Gotta love the oh-so-appropriate quote from Chance Gardner on the wallā€¦ā€¦ā€¦ā€¦..Burlā€™s role model for do-nothing staring with little comprehension.

    Volunteer Foot Stoolā€¦. and doormat. Iā€™d say the wind beneath his wings but the very idea of either of them airborneā€¦..

    Mikie I hope you saw my good wishes yesterdayā€¦.Weā€™ll all be wishing you a speedy recovery.

    And Marg, 27 miles???Really?Ok maybe youā€™re not really a Roller Derby player but Iā€™m still impressed.

    OddBall! I just realised you got turned back around the right way!

    Congratulations! Howā€™d ya do it?

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    SusanSunshine Premium Member over 13 years ago

    and thanks again, JJFahl ā€”

    I have IE9 only because it updated when I wasnā€™t looking ā€” I never gave it permission to do that.

    I believe I switched to Firefox when I hated IE7 or 8ā€¦..

    What with a Google search box included by then, I never tried installing the actual toolbar, or I would have known it wasnā€™t available.

    Maybe Iā€™ll try Chrome again one of these days ā€” depends on how it handles text size, which is often the dealbreaker for my poor old myopic eyes.

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    SusanSunshine Premium Member over 13 years ago

    Ladyfingers - Sorry - but I was only being funny. Usually I just say ā€œhi allā€, which includes you, of course.

    And thanks, but in IE, Ctrl+ and Ctrl- donā€™t do what Iā€™m looking for.

    I explained it here, a day or two ago, in my conversation with JJF, if you want to go back.

    Basically, Ctrl+ makes everything too huge except the one thing I want bigger ā€” this font in the comment box.

    BTW Chrome, Firefox and IE are all (separate) browsers.

    MSN is a web page.

    Chrome may have picked it up as your home page setting in another browser ā€” but you can change that to wherever you like.

    Yikes! Iā€™m supposed to be in bed!

    Since I didnā€™t specifically say hi to you, Iā€™ll say goodnight, Ladyfingers!

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    HalcyonEve  over 13 years ago

    @SusanSunshine, I donā€™t know about IE9, but in IE8, you can click on Tools menuā€”> Internet Optionsā€”> Generalā€”> Accesibility and check ā€œIgnore font sizes specified on webpages.ā€ Then you can go back and adjust the text size under the Page menu. Have you tried something like that to see if you can do the same in IE9?

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    Hussell  over 13 years ago

    Sleep tight Susan.Marg you ride you bike 27 miles? Ok, I will have to take the Burl position on this one:

    You ride you bike 27 miles in on day? What do you do, stay the night there and ride it 27 miles back the next day?

    I couldnā€™t find the eye in the panel in my email so I came on line to enlarge it. turns out it is bigger in my email than on here magnified today. Whatā€™s up wit that? I will look for the eye tonight after work when I have more time.

    The last few days my Home Page has been unassailable. Anyone else having this problem?

    Okay, off to work. Morning everybody.

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    GROG Premium Member over 13 years ago

    1Adam-12, come in. See the manā€¦.Love itā€¦.and loved that show in my teens.

    Morning, All.

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  15. Mr peanut
    leakysqueaky712  over 13 years ago

    Marg SKATES 27 miles after she rides her bike. Donā€™t let her fool you, she is roller derby material.

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    vldazzle  over 13 years ago

    I noticed today they made the home page appearance different- now all toons are one size for square and another size for strips. Dinette Set on weekdays used to show larger than other single panels, but it shrunk ā€“ I hope next Sunday will be larger, as Sundays are usually too small. And yes, I know all the magnification options.

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    vldazzle  over 13 years ago

    @ Susan, that was a good comedy movie ā€“ most of the straight lines could barely be said without a smirk. Other faves of mine (non-animated) are Ruling Class and Man with 2 Brains.

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    InTraining Premium Member over 13 years ago

    Good morning Crustwoodā€¦et al..( and Ladyfingers )ā€¦.. It finally rained hereā€¦.. Burl will not have to waterā€¦ā€¦ā€¦ā€¦ .Once Burl got to the doorā€¦ā€¦ā€¦ and found it was rainingā€¦ā€¦ā€¦.. neither he nor Jerry went anywhereā€¦ā€¦.. Just watched the TVā€¦

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    SusanSunshine Premium Member over 13 years ago

    GymShoe ā€” thanks for the update ā€” Iā€™m sure youā€™re right.

    He wouldnā€™t want to get his Civil Defense rainsuit and Souā€™wester hat all wet, would he?

    And Halcyon, thanks, cos I forgot to mention that, and yes.

    When you upgrade a browser it generally carries your settings from the previous version, and mine has been set that way for years.

    AFAIK thereā€™s nothing you can do in IE to make the font in this box reasonably visible to me (or that in other web forms) without making the whole page disturbingly gi-normous - other text, graphics and all.

    Firefox does it easily; leaving the rest of the page alone ā€” this is actually a bit larger than in the posted comments.

    I spend lot of time typing on this site, so it matters.

    And I do apologise, to those not interested, for carrying on this discussion ā€” but people are trying to be so helpful, and so am I.

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    jjfahl  over 13 years ago

    Chrome does the Ctrl + and ā€“ very nicely and remembers the setting for each page. It works on the comments boxes here but I notice that on some sites although the main article enlarges the comment boxes are stubbornly tiny. I am still using XP so IE 9 wonā€™t sneak up on me. I do a lot of newsgroups on OE so hate to give it up as its successors are terrible. Seems like there is a conspiracy to kill Usenet as most ISPs have quit furnishing it and not much thought goes into creating good newsreaders but there is a hard core who sticks with it, some go to the horrible Google web interface which I canā€™t stand as it is so much slower to navigate through than a good newsreader.

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  21. Emerald
    margueritem  over 13 years ago

    To answer the queries, yes, I do ride 27 miles in one day. I have an area around the neighborhood that I ride in, and I do laps. It usually takes me about 2 hours and 45 minutes. Now that the sun is rising later, I may not be able to do as many miles as I could when I was starting at 5:30 AM.

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