The Dinette Set by Julie Larson for October 10, 2012

Is it safe to post today? Are certain topics off limits? Will I be singled out for ridicule?

Notice how cleverly Dale tries to make Jerry and Burl decide between themselves which of them will do the dishes, excusing himself from the equation. However, math and logic geniuses that they are—-and quick, too—they both instinctively call “heads.” That way if “tails” comes up, they can claim that Dale must do the dishes.

I don’t want any of these guys washing my dishes.

Or eating off my dishes.Or touching my dishes.

Paper plates were invented for a reason.

Restaurants too. Even better… they can sit at a different table.

Paco…. ewww

@Toenails…

Brain Bleach!Say it loud; say it proud.

Hope you saw my message to you yesterday about it.

I found Waldo.

Does Jer’sa shirt say “Vi*gr*” or “Niagra”? .I can see him trying to save a few bucks and using “Niagra Spray Starch.”

I urge Julie to return to filling her panel with detail. The big arc and fence like lines are a poor substitute. The detail provided fuel for our comments.For instance today the background could be a kitchen sink loaded with pots and pans.. and a black board “Ask DALE to wash dishes”. Anyone have an idea for more background topics…? ? ?

I am glad these folks don’t smoke. I remember back when people smoked in restaurants. I always hated when the diner would stick his cig down in the mashed potatoes when finished.Could just be a hillbilly/redneck practice.

If you are allergic to Brain Bleach, just read the comic, not the comments.

Thanks to all who gave me moral support over the BB comments. I was only trying to josh with Susan and Marg, and it seemed to me to be a harmless topic. Unfortunately Pig, and now GymShoe seem to think it’s not something worthy of mention any longer.

And seems the churning of the cesspool has brought up another grouch, who chooses to critique one of our participant’s moniker. I guess this newly unearthed grouch just proves that I personally am thoroughly uncool, because I LIKE Toenails’ nickname, I think it’s rather cute.

As for the BB, I still think it’s quite funny and I get a giggle out of it each time someone comes up with a comment about it.

On a serious note, Marg and Susan could actually make a few shekels on it if they took the (inadvertent) suggestion in one of yesterday’s comments about BB mugs and t-shirts and such. If you have a decent graphic you could go to this place online called Cafe Press and they’ll do all the work for you, putting your graphic on mugs and T’s and aprons and a bunch of other stuff. They take a cut of the sales, and you get something out of it, not sure what the breakdown is, so this is just an idea I thought I’d mention to you gals. I know I’d be in for a BB mug, and that’s a fact! Maybe even an apron, since my DH and I joke about the Dinette Set cartoons while I’m in the kitchen cooking (yes, he’s a fan, too, but he only sees it in the paper, while I get it here online). He thinks the BB joke here is cute, and when others join in the banter and post piccies about it (as a someone did yesterday) I always tell him about it, and sometimes even call him down here to my ‘Den of Iniquity’ (my office) to show him.

I guess I’ll keep my trap shut here, though. It seems that no matter what group I’ve observed, not just here, but in Yahoo and other discussion groups, I find that there is always somebody who likes to spoil things for the rest. I don’t usually get this tchatty, nor do I make many posts because of this phenomenon, but JUST when I think I’m in a ‘safe’ environment and actually DO join in, up pops a grump with something mean to say. I try to put it down to a person’s knickers being too tight, but I have to say that it really is singularly unpleasant to have to witness such uncalled-for belligerence.

I think you folks are, for the most part, very decent, interesting individuals. I love hearing about Dazz’s adventures, and the cooking/baking comments, I especially love the banter with Marg and Susan and Leaky (and where has our Dear Leaky gone???) and some of the personal stories that have been posted by quite a few others. I just wish I had kept my own rule and NOT begun to get too open. It never fails. There’s always got to be (at least) one.

Thanks to all who have had kind words for me. I genuinely appreciate your support.

Loved those BB Pipeline & Map Pics yesterday – hee hee

purple sky, anyone who doesn’t want to read your comments, doesn’t have to, ignore them. There are a few trolls around here, I mean all over the site not here, that’s why i assume they haven’t removed the flag button. So we can make use of it if legimately needed. Anyway, carry on lady! :-) I’m sure I’ve po’ed a few people in my years here, too.

Oh, did you flame me? I thought a mosquito landed on my monitor.

I LOVE this site, all of you have become my friends and I love to hear what you have to say. And I say PHOOEY to anyone else who doesn’t realize our banter is harmless fun. Now to Purple Sky’s suggestion. Wouldn’t it be funny (and wonderful) if one of us actually wore a BB tee shirt and a total stranger came up to us in public and recognized it? As to todays comic, Two “heads” are most certainly NOT better than one. On another subject., I’m not so much computer literate. How does one obtain and use an avatar? OK this wore me out, have to nap now….

Purple Sky —PLEASE…. Don’t you DARE let one offhand comment keep you from saying what you like…First of all, it was only directed at you cos you happened to post first that night.It’s not personal, no one was following you around… no one will show up at your house.It’s just a slight criticism from someone you don’t even know… and who doesn’t know you..SO WHAT?

If I left every time I got that I’d have been gone for years!

And in fact that person hasn’t posted since…. and if he does, I think if he were a nice guy he might even see the effect he’s had, and apologise (not holding my breath.)

But also…. we need you here!If the nice people let the few rude people drive them away…who will be left?Help us hold the line!

Oh — and thanks for the idea.You never know!

2old2read …

It’s easy!When you’re logged in, there should be a spot in the upper left corner of the page that says “howdy” to you.

There’s a link under your current grey question mark that says “profile.”

On your profile page, in the same spot, it’ll say “update avatar”. Click that.It will open your My Pictures folder, where you can browse for a picture..

You can use pretty much any picture on your computer…but chances are, you’ll want to look for and save something off the internet first.Your avatar is going to appear very small, so you want something very clear and uncomplicated… and preferably rather small to begin with, so it doesn’t lose much detail by being reduced in size.

A single comic character, an animal face, an icon… that sort of thing…even something you drew, reduced to about 100×100 pixels for best results…but really, anything you like.

Just experiment — if it doesn’t look good, try something else.It helps if you know how to crop a picture to just the part you want.If you’re completely unsavvy about it, and you use Windows, I can tell you how to do it in Paint, which is part of Windows.Let me know.

I have no problem using any photo as an avatar (but don’t understand the code for posting other stuff in the comment-and that’s OK). I also have no problem speaking my mind here or anywhere even if some find me annoying; I miss our friend, Leaky; was he one of those who “escaped” as the curmudgeon claimed?

I was assuming that Dale had provided the meal which is why he was exempt from the work.

I noticed that Dale didn’t say if the person calling the coin was going to do the dishes or not.