From the salmon-colored sofa that is the center of the Arlo & Janis universe, this unique and quixotic comic strip has been just about everywhere. From unvarnished human drama to flights of unfettered comic fantasy, from unabashed pathos to unsurpassed observational wit, Arlo & Janis is perhaps the most unpigenholeable comic strip ever. It also invents new words!
The characters Arlo and Janis have played the parts of mermaids, squirrels, alligators and grasshoppers over the years, all while exploring the unexaggerated human condition and managing to become, with their son Gene, perhaps the most believable family in the funny pages. This unique approach has garnered Arlo & Janis an intelligent and engaged readership and guaranteed that a percentage of it will be confused at any given moment. However, readers eagerly return every day for another quaff from what has been the holy grail for a generation of comic-strip authors: quintessential Boomer humor.
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thebird55 said, 5 months ago
I have a hard time convincing some people that the can has to stay on the property. On the edge of the driveway, or the edge of the yard. NOT IN THE STREET, or in the gutter. Not even just a bit.
thebird55 said, 5 months ago
Besides, it might run over my mind down there.
Gizmo Cat said, 5 months ago
Here it has to be placed on the street, or they won’t empty it…
jeffc42
said, 5 months ago
When I first moved to Okinawa, it took me weeks to figure out the proper trash strategy. I’ve done recycling on mainland Japan and in Germany, but Okinawa is very different. Some days you have to use the trash bag with your city’s name on it (and you can’t buy a trash bag from another town or they won’t pick it up), with the correct trash inside. Otherwise, they will either leave the whole bag behind, with a note in English telling you what you had in there that was wrong, or taking part and leaving the wrong stuff behind.
Tony said, 5 months ago
There is no limit how far people will go to exercise control over others. We haul our trash to the transfer depot. An attendant stalked around barking orders when it first opened. He was gone the next week. :-)
Q4horse said, 5 months ago
The truck can’t grab and empty can if it is facing in the wrong direction. Due to buget cutting, city no longer employs an extra person to do that.
Varnes said, 5 months ago
How’s that attitude workin’ out for ya Arlo?
Jean said, 5 months ago
In our town if you put the can in your yard at the edge of the curb they will pick it up and everything is OK, but if you put it on the street in the gutter then they usually dump a good bit of it in the street or just drop the can wherever and if it get crushed or broken, then OH WELL.
Doctor Toon
said, 5 months ago
In the street, against the curb, facing outwards – That’s easy enough for me to remember
Separate bin for recycling is only picked up every other week, I can’t always remember what week it is and look at the neighbors
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Yard waste bin is only certain months of the year and I can never remember when those are
bagbalm said, 5 months ago
Funny I just put it in a box all taped up like I got a UPS delivery and it is gone the next day…
finale said, 5 months ago
@bagbalm
One man’s trash is another man being p.o.’d at you.
OMichiko said, 5 months ago
The rule in our neighborhood is exactly opposite to the instruction imprinted on the Trash, Green Waste & Recycling Containers. The reason is the local trash company does not have the automated lifters that the instructions are for, rather its all a manual lifting process by the collection personnel .
whmIII said, 5 months ago
Maybe he was drunk…
david_42 said, 5 months ago
@thebird55
Mine has to meet those requirements AND be on level ground. There is no level ground in my front yard. Fortunately, the drivers rarely get out of their cabs to check. They grab the bin with the claw and dump it.
Mary McDaniel said, 5 months ago
Our trash runs every Tuesday. The same rules apply as to where and how to place the cans. Our recycle runs the 2nd and 4th Tuesday. This all seems easy enough. Well, when the recycle didn’t run Jan. 8th. 2013, we called to ask why. The reason given was that because the 1st Tuesday, Jan. 1st, 2013 did not come after the first Monday of the month. Therefore: it will run the 3rd Tuesday. I still don’t know if it is going to run on the 4th or 5th Tuesday next. How political red tape, is that??