Arlo and Janis by Jimmy Johnson for February 27, 2016

I’ll need some help with this one.

I’m thinking Arlo is saying it’s his lucky day. No work and no broken coffee mug!

Does somebody have another interpretation?

I was having trouble too…. but I think you guys are right… Plus, he’s got a nice, hot, fresh cup of coffee in his hands…. presumably, his first cup of the day…so all’s OK, if not right, with the world.

Read it the same way. What a great start to the day.

A month from now that mug will be just sitting on the counter and it’ll crack in half

should have been “And it’s Saturday, too!”

I’ve done this, but it’s because of weak hands first thing in the morning, the dishwasher had run the night before and the cup was cool. I did have to laugh my butt off though because I have experienced this exact scenario. Alas, after about the third time, my favorite cup bit the dust! :( :( :(

Nah, the mug has little monetary value, but Arlo has been drinking out of thissame mug for years. When he saw it flying through the air a piece of him died as he realized the inevitable, but a miracle of fate spared the mug and he enjoys a private moment with his ceramic pal.

Back around 1962 I dropped a 5U4 on the basement floor.Not only did it not break but it worked when installed.

I had a favorite mug, I used it all the timeWhenever sipping coffee I always felt sublimeOne day it brokeIt thus did croakAnd to this day I lament my cup busting crime.

Life is good.

Is it just me or does Arlo look smaller in the last panel? He looks like a little kid at the table. Just sayin’…

Actually, panel 4 depicts my idea of the absolute best part of any weekend!!

It’s like winning the lottery twice

As a career chemist, I developed an instinct to stick a foot under (empty) falling beakers, cups, etc. that saved a good many of them.

Dropping and breaking an item requires a really fast clean up and secret disposal of the bits in someone else’s trash can to avoid being yelled out by the spouse. Arlo got lucky, this time at least.

Arlo dropped the mug from 6 feet up, as tall as he is. How did it not break??

Exactly what does Arlo do for a job? I’ve never seen any reference to a job.

That looks like one of the mugs my uncle brought home when he got out of the Navy in 1947. I still have 6 of them. I think the others that he brought home are still around with the other nieces and nephews. They are almost indestructible.

I’ve seen vacuum tubes sold at science fiction conventions as “steam punk accessories.” I guess steam punk can now mean anything before transistors.

I woke up this morning thinking it was a weekday. It wasn’t until I turned on the radio that I realized it was Saturday.

Yep – I remember testing tubes at the machine in the pharmacy. I also remember the xray machine at the shoe store for checking the fit of your feet in the shoes.I also remember “700 Science Experiments for Everyone” by UNESCO. It had directions for kids on how to safely (by 1950s standards) cut dead light bulbs or dead vacuum tubes out of their bases to use as test tubes or science glassware (you took two chunks of lead, soldered nichrome wire to them, plugged the wires into the electric outlet, with the lead chunks in salt solution. My 1962 version changed that to using a stepdown transformer.

I remember vacuum tube testers in most drugstores — I also remember all the tubes Dad took in to be tested always turned out to be bad!

@everyone, noowww I get it!

Nope. He made it all the way from the Dishwasher to the Coffee pot before his episode of “Butterfingers”.