The Dinette Set by Julie Larson for February 20, 2012

I can’t STAND these people!!

It might help if the car was in gear.

BURL lives in Ilinois…… and does not yet know how to “ROCK” a car out of the snow…… ! ? !

Anyway… I think that is Jerry in the middle….. soon to be flattened along with the other two…….. ! ! !

Guys, get the snowshovels and bury him.

Susan, I’m with you, gimme dem bones to gnaw on!

In that snowstorm, the biggest flake of all is the one behind the wheel!

Indeed, we rather should try to push the car without the brakes being on. Doh! Today is like a French farce or Marx brothers slapstick.Wow, was yesterday something or what? Beer, oysters, crabs, taxes and wind chimes. Who’d a-thunk it?

All this talk about brains and knowing things…. we’re talking about BURL here.

There are no brains, and no place to store knowledge….that’s why they have a big memo board in the kitchen, and Joy needs a recipe for Sara Lee poundcake.

And 40 guidebooks in the back seat of the car.

Outdoors, without notes, they’re lost.

The transmission shop gives Burl a special punch card — the 10th replacement is free…. foot on the brake, foot on the gas…. bingo!

Unfortunately the hospital doesn’t have “Buy 2 Get 1 Free” on the matching back surgeries for his helpers.

And yeah…. yesterday was delicious…..mmmm mmmm…

“And…♪ the little ♫ ones gnawed on the ♪ ♬ bones-o” ♩ ♪

Let’s try it with Burl out pushing and the 3 of them in the car.

Leaky — I’m still up….. and I should have been in bed hours ago…. you?

I also have sleep issues, so I understand yours.

When I say “Good Morning”, it’s almost always before bed.

Anyway…. that’s where I’m heading….G’night, Crustwood.

I can say “Good Morning” to you all. It’s 6am here, and I’ve been awake for two hours. Hate insomnia! Newspaper not here so read my comics. Bad thing, it is so early there aren’t many comments to read. Which is worse..not able to go to sleep or waking up too early?

My guess is that when he takes the brakes off he’ll discover that the car is in reverse.Oh, and good morning.

So THATs why everyone else is mostly done with comments when I get here (you all have insomnia). In the summer I’ll be up a couple of hours earlier (with the sun). Right now my wake up is a 20W lamp (in a stained glass swan) down in the living room (light bounces off the walls and up the stairs) and it turns on at 5:34 and wakes me right away. Burl should know how to rock the car by his age and I see that the dunce cap is not close enough to fall where it belongs. I had a little trouble sleeping last night because I was checking Google maps for the site of this year’s Crown Tourney (my favorite event) and it’s way too far to daytrip and not even close to a cheap hotel ($152/night for one about 5-7 miles from the site and comments were not great. I may skip it this year, but it was such fun last year, especially the rapier fighting.

@Susan, Yeah, recipes for opening a box. I had a friend who could not make jello (brand one in a box) and thought THAT was bad. I’ve seen the big assortment of guide books/maps in their car but said nothing because I have a bunch of Google Maps printed out as well as a street map book. Our events are scheduled on whatever property someone rents for the purpose and many are difficult to find. Most of our people do camping, I am allergic to all bugs and like climate control (and would rather wait until I get to my lodgings than ever use a port-a-john).

Nothing like trying to get a car unstuck with a moron at the wheel who dosn’t know his/her part.

@Leaky: I hope you get your sleep soon, but be careful with ambien it can have some bizarre side effects. My wife took it for a couple of years and eventually had to stop. She did all kinds of things while asleep, some dangerous. One fo the more docile events was calling me at work (I was working graveyard shift) to tell me she was going to bed, she normally called to say goodnight. Ten minutes later, I was told i had a phone call from my wife. Since she had called to say ‘goodnight’ already, I thought something had happened so I rushed to the phone. I took the phone and asked if all was okay? She said, “Yeah, I was just calling to tell you goodnight”. I told her she had already called and she didn’t remember it. The next day she didn’t remember either call. We had a series of her setting off the silent burglar alarm and talking to police (I was sleeping and didn’t know about it), my nephew was staying the night and saw flashlights outside. He went to the back patio and my wife was talking to cops, making no sence. Again the next day she remembered nothing of it. Another time she got up and decided to dive head first into our coffee table, Broke an ankle that time. So, be careful.I am getting off my soap box now.

Good morning Crustwoodians!

I assume they were on a snack run, it would have to be something important for that group to be out together.

I’m in Phoenix proper so local news is on TV and the news copters are even over us sometimes too. I only like a pot of coffee after supper in cool weather. I just ate my grapefruit while reading most of my toons (over 40 that I read on 3 sites) and comment on my FB, read any emails that aren’t ads.

When I was in 7th grade, we were walking to school and saw a woman having trouble getting her car out of the snow; a couple of us got behind and started pushing. The lady got out and yelled at us, “What are you kids doing?” " Trying to push you out!" “I was trying to back up!” We just left her there…

I case I forget later:Laissez les bon temps roulez!

I avoid all medicines, not even an aspirin or cold/allergy meds. Hot cold compresses and massages are good..And Susan, I like salt free pistascios already out of the shell (with the shells there are always some that require pliers). Fitz loves almonds (raw) and I use walnuts in baking, but I eat pecans and pistachios (buy small amounts in bulk section of my market).

Then I would have to get up with pen and paper and solve it……..lol

Yes people used litter, and my dad kept 2 strips of metal lathe in his trunk (both give some traction when there’s no one around to push. The only time I slipped off the road because of ice, my kids were all in the car so my boys pushed me (they were only in their teens back then and I was a new driver).

I have 2 very relaxing massagers (as opposed to the other kind) One hooks on to a chair back and has pairs of motors at shoulder blades and other parts of back; the other gives a great percussive foot massage. I’ve not needed either in months, but good to know I have them (in the laundry with my strider).

Why hasn’t this idiot been shot yet?