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Published: 2019-01-12 03:33:41 +0000 UTC; Views: 3862; Favourites: 21; Downloads: 8
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Marge stated the obvious; "Boy, did winter come back with a vengeance."This piece works on so many levels for me. This is exactly what the weather is doing this week. It also deals with the frustrations of work this winter. I didn't have a particular topic of conversation in mind for the girls, but it looks like they're hashing out some big people's problems. Computers, passwords, HR departments...this world today can be a real pain in the butt. Hopefully these friends can find some solutions over a nice hot bowl of chowder.
The duck boots where inspired by a woman who walked by my car while I waited for my wife at a grocery store...I also own a pair.
Lois is the property of Seth MacFarlane. Marge is the property of Matt Groening.
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Last week I had something neat...Jim Beam makes a hot toddy - think whiskey with a strong flavor of citrus in it. You put it in a glass and nuke it for about 25 seconds. It was nice.
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A few of those and you'd be sloshed pretty quickly...
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They really weren't that strong, but they were tasty.
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Thanks...it was a bit sloppy, but I think it turned out okay.
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Even though I live in SoCal where snow is as rare as unicorns, n'yuk, n'yuk, n'yuk, I too need to come up with a winter scenario, particularly with Rhonda crabbing and bitching about the snow and the cold. She's definitely a summertime girl. As for your situation in Indiana, I feel for you, good buddy, I really do having had to deal with snow and ice in both Korea and Germany during my Army service. I know what you must be going through right now. Apart from that, your pic of Marge and Lois in winter wear is very nicely done, especially the duck boots worn by Lois. That's the kind of winter footwear that Stuart would have on his feet. Nice use of Adobe digital coloring. Well done.
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Thanks! I may be pulling those duckies of mine out to shovel snow tomorrow. This whole idea came together as I watched people go in and out of our new Aldi's grocery while I waited for my wife. The looks on the girls' faces sort of sum up what I've felt this week at work.
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Many is the time when an artist or cartoonist uses his/her character's facial expressions to mirror their own feelings. I've done it myself with Stu and Rhonda. Again, I'm really sorry that you're having a hard winter in Indiana. Believe me, when I look at film footage of people skiing or snowboarding or ice skating, I think to myself, "What a bunch of nuts!" And I'm also hoping that things will lighten up for you at work.
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Some people really love winter and winter sports. I know that winter sports are huge in New York state for example. I think we just got used to some really mild weather here lately, and the door has shut on that for now.
At work it's just the transition from the one company to the other - it's just been a real cluster, but at least the hours have lightened up.
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As far as your work hours go, I'm very elated to learn that things have lightened up for you. Now, all you have to do is hope your new security company can actually keep the people they hire, unlike the losers you had to deal with in the past. And I'm aware that many people enjoy winter sports, and I would never want to take that enjoyment away from them. I just think frolicking in the snow is silly.
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At Ft. Leonard Wood a young lady and I were walking back to the barracks from KP and we got into a snowball fight...that was quite a fun diversion. I've also had fun snowball fights with my nieces and nephews from Arizona. I've had fun in the snow. It's just at this age it just makes work a pain in the butt.
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I confess that I've gotten into a few snowball fights in Germany with some of my fellow soldiers. But if anybody asks me now if I'd ever do it again, my reply would be a resounding "hell no!" Like you, I'm getting way too old for that sort of thing. And on top of that, cold weather makes my bum right knee act up.
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Oh, I'd love to have a fight with my sister's kids. But they're getting older - I'm going to the middle child's wedding in a couple of weeks.
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You must be a very happy uncle. My best wishes to your niece.
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I'm so excited about it. Seems like yesterday I was working in a department store in 1985 and got the call that she'd been born.
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I envy you, as I'll probably never know the joy of having a nephew or niece since my kid brother is an irresponsible no-account and my sister can never have children. Perhaps I could be your niece's uncle by proxy?
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Oh, we'd make room for you.
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Excellent! C'est magnifique!
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The only thing you wouldn't like about them is that politically they are about as left wing as you can get ::chuckles::
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Then, on the subject of politics, I'll just keep my mouth shut and dazzle them with my cartoon art.
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::laughs:: I think my parents would have gotten a kick out of you. BTW, I may try to run an idea by you. I don't know if I'll do it, but I've always wanted to do a comic about my favorite bible story.
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I'm sure I would've liked your parents, too. Doing a humorous comic based on a Bible story is always risky as some Christians may take offense. I myself won't do something like that as I have too much respect for the Scriptures. But if you do go ahead with this idea and load it onto your gallery, I'll be sure to give it a proper, non-judgmental, critique.
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I'm not so much worried about the Christians as every one else. I probably wouldn't show it to many people, but it's really respective of the bible. I just love the story of Adonijah at the beginning of 1 Kings, the son of Solomon who tried to have himself king while David chose Solomon. It's actually sort of humorous because he literally asks his number one guy, "What's all that merry-making outside?" and has to be told that David chose Solomon. He was so sure that he was going to be king that he had the high priest slaughter a bull for the occasion.
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If you read the text carefully, you'll see that God was working through David, and that it was He that choose Solomon to be king over Adonijah. And as it turns out in the Bible, God's choice was perfectly right and just. Not only would Solomon prove to be the wisest man who ever lived, but would also contribute the Song of Solomon and the Proverbs to the Scriptures, and who would also build the first Jewish temple in Jerusalem.
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All Solomon had seen over the years was his father David on the run from men who would kill him and take his throne. When Solomon became king he knew he had to, to put it in the words of "The Godfather," "settle all family business." He even promised his half-brother that if he'd stay out of trouble, he wouldn't harm a hair on his head. Later in the same chapter it tells us that Adonijah tried to get one of Solomon's concubines, presumably for information - Solomon then quickly had him "whacked."
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Sad, but true. That's what I like about the Bible: it pulls no punches but clearly shows how flawed many of it's heroes were, or in the words of Oliver Cromwell, "warts and all." Solomon, despite his wisdom, was a depressed wreck of a man. Moses was a murderer. King David was a murderer. Noah, after the flood, became a hopeless drunk. Lot committed incest with his daughters. St. Paul, before his conversion, was an accessory to murder in the stoning of the deacon Stephen. St. Peter showed himself to be a coward after Jesus' arrest and before His crucifixion when he denied Him.
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Yes, this is true. One of the only ones of the bunch by my reckoning that really came clean was Joshua, the steadfast general who was given orders and carried them out.
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And of course, Jesus Himself who, as God in human flesh, was totally without sin or a sin nature as is common to all human beings.
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You know, I thought about this the other night; we once had a bible study on the stoning of the prostitute story. I think the whole reason they brought the woman before Jesus was so that he would exonerate her, and they could haul him before the legal authorities and try to execute him then. His death as everyone knows, was all about politics.
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Again, if you read the text carefully, those men who brought the woman taken in adultery before Jesus didn't bring the man that she'd had relations with. According to Hebrew law at that time, both partners in adultery were to be stoned to death. That's why I love the way Jesus reacted to these hypocrites; by not answering them but instead writing with his finger in the dirt. And when these scumbags kept asking him, Jesus only answers them once, "He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone at her." John 8:7. The Bible doesn't say what Jesus wrote, but legend says he wrote out the sins of the woman's accusers. And after these shamed men had all slunk away, Jesus shows his kindness to the woman. He asks her, "Where are those thine accusers? Hath no man condemned thee?" She replied "No man, Lord." Notice that she called him "Lord." And he replied, "Neither do I condemn thee," but here's the warning, "Go and sin no more." John 8:10-11. He knew what this woman did, but while he refused to rise to the bait of those hypocrites, he also warned her against sinning again. And Jesus' death was more than mere politics. He had to shed his blood to pay for the sins of all those who believe and trust him.
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I always loved what a young priest said once; he thought that Jesus wrote the names of the guys' girlfriends in the sand.
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There's that possibility, also. But I prefer the "writing down the sins" version.
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I like Father Craig's version - Jesus was just that cool. But we'll never know. Craig himself had an interesting story. His father was part of a B-52 repair crew, so he raised his family on the island of Guam. He told us that his mother was less than amused at some of the creatures he and his brother would find and bring in the house.
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On a tropical island like Guam, I can just imagine what kind of creepy-crawlies Father Craig and his brother would find. I liked studying bugs when I was a kid, but I don't like the idea of living with them. When I was young, I had a friend who had a tarantula in a box, and we brought it over to my house to show my mother. She took one look and almost jumped out of the kitchen window in fright, all the while screaming at us to get that @#%ing thing out of the house!
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My mother was somewhat less than amused that I used to keep snakes. We used to keep some unusual pets in Arizona. In Tucson we found a horned lizard, and kept it as a pet for some time.
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At least your mother didn't react so excitedly to your snakes as my mom did with that tarantula. And no way would my mom let me keep a snake.
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Yeah, but I almost scared a neighbor to death with one of those snakes. It disappeared, and my mother joked with Vern about seeing it go over to his house. Sure enough, about a day later, Vern found it in his garage and ran over to our house screaming. That was probably about 1974 in Tempe.
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Poor Vern. And your mother must've been pretty embarrassed. In 1974 I was in the Army and was shipped to Korea.
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In 1974 in October I started the 6th grade in a brand spanking new school in southern Tempe. For the first part of that year we went to the old Kyrene school, which is now called the Ben Furlong Center. My brother had Ben Furlong as a teacher, and had a great deal of respect for him. I thought it quite an honor to have the old school named after him. In those days there was really nothing down that way except for cotton fields and orange groves. Now all built up, it's where the Arizona Cardinals have their training camp. Ah, memories of riding the school bus home listening to "Sweet Home Alabama" on the bus radio.
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Ah, "Sweet Home Alabama." I remember hearing that on the radio almost constantly in the barracks along with "Midnight Train to Georgia" and "Lord, I was born a Ramblin' Man." Then in Korea in '75, there came a new song over the airwaves, "Waterloo" by a Swedish group called ABBA. I thought it was a sort of cute song, but kind of weird. Then in '75 came the Bee Gees with those wretched disco tunes. Yecchh!
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I have to agree with you on the Bee Gees, which always sounded to me like either a bunch of squirrels, or somebody with their balls cut off. I was listening to KRIZ and KDKB FM in those days, and just starting to discover things like David Bowie at that time.
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Yeah, I concur about the Bee Gees: They definitely sounded like three castrati. Personally, when I first saw a picture of Dave Bowie, I thought he looked like a flaming fruit fly. Nevertheless, I dug his hit "Let's Dance."
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Hearing "Space Oddity" on KDKB in Phoenix around 1975 did it for me.
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Can't say I heard that Bowie song.
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Oh yes you have...you might not recognize the title. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ACLkNN…
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Ah, I see, said the blind man. I always thought the title of the song was "Major Tom." Thanks for clearing up my misconception.
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I still think my favorite album was 1980's "Scary Monsters."
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I prefer the various pop hits from the '80s such as "Rock This Town" by the Stray Cats, "Come On Eileen" by Dexy's Midnight Runners, "Somebody's Watching Me" by Rockwell and others too numerous to mention.
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I'm a big 80's fan. I'm a huge fan of such bands as Wang Chung, Tears for Fears, Simple Minds. Yes was very active in those years, with their comeback album "90125" in November of '83. In my car I have a CD I burned with nothing but 80's hits.
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