Real Life Adventures by Gary Wise and Lance Aldrich
- October 03, 2012
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Dogs, bosses, garden slugs, who sits next to who at Thanksgiving, cheating at golf, fretting the night away, carping couples on long trips, eating over the sink, toenail clippings, cosmic order, hairballs, flop sweat, coughing into one’s elbow, clogged pipes, clogged arteries, parking crooked at the mall.
That’s what real life is all about. And that’s what Real Life Adventures is all about.
For nearly two decades, Lance (Aldrich) and Gary (Wise) have drawn, and drawn from, the everyday stuff that we all slog through.
And on any given day, they like to think their little square slice of life is a nice change from the rickety roller coaster the rest of the world seems to be.
Want to share your life’s goofiosity with them? Just post here.
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chireef said, 8 months ago
that should be the requirements for all politicians, if you want to serve in a political office then you should be automatically disqualified
The J.A.M. said, 8 months ago
Bill Gates?
simpsonfan2 said, 8 months ago
@The J.A.M.
At least he wouldn’t need contributions, from people who would want something in return..
luckylouie said, 8 months ago
Arthur C. Clarke wrote a book (Imperial Earth) which used exactly that premise. The president was chosen by lot from the intellectual and political elite, and any indication that a person wanted the job was cause for immediate disqualification. The idea was that the president would do a good job so he could get time off for good behavior.
Logan Sackett
said, 8 months ago
@luckylouie
It’s also in the HitchHiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, but not in the same form.
del_grande
said, 8 months ago
Isn’t this the reason Colin Powell never ran for President?
runar
said, 8 months ago
@luckylouie
I remember that, but I couldn’t recall which Clarke novel it was. He described the President as someone who had to be “…dragged, kicking and screaming, into the White House.”
Coffee-Turtle said, 8 months ago
paradox?
burleigh2 said, 8 months ago
I’ve thought about it a few times, but I would hate the backstabbing and character assassinations that I would be expected to do. :-s
gmartin997
said, 8 months ago
He may have a point. George Washington didn’t want it but felt obligated to accept it; and his successors who help create this country felt the same obligation. Not until Andrew Jackson did the Presidency become a political objective. Since then, they’ve all had political agendas, and anybody who believes otheriwise lives in another worldl. In fact, I’ll go even further……Abraham Lincoln’s agenda never included freeing the slaves. In fact, he was opposed to it or he wouldn’t have tried to find every other possible alternative. He had valid reasons. He didn’t want to see tens of thousands of freed slaves flooding the cities looking for work, when work was already scarce. This is something the abolitionists never considered. What do you do with 1.7 million freed slaves. How do you house them, how do you feed them and their children? They didn’t care! Activists are always singular minded; as was William Tecumseh Sherman as he destroyed everything in his path in his march to the sea, knowing nothing was in his path to oppose him. That March is still considered an abomination.
chireef said, 8 months ago
@gmartin997
in 1865 New York City had race riots where many freed slaves where murdered because people were afraid that they were “stealing their JOBS” including a tiny baby who was thrown out a third story window to its death.