Arlo and Janis by Jimmy Johnson for February 16, 2021

Objection! Irrelevant!

We have an excuse, er reason, to celebrate, so let’s celebrate!

Boy! Janis got her beads on the cheap! Then again, they’re not really in NOLA. So I guess the NOLA rules don’t apply.

Her point is plain and simple, We never go period.

In that case, he should have said “Since we aren’t able to go to Rio for Carnival this year …”. Of course they don’t do Louisiana creole food in Rio, but I can live with that.

Arlo has the right idea. Have fun while you can. Because soon…

Stop worrying, there is the distinct possibility that the majority of us will get through this.

First, I’m all put out! Ooola over in Alley, just got depicted as a “Karen” and I can’t protest!!

Is this a really devious way of saying Janis was good enough to be rewarded for a certain..um..display?

Did Arlo make a King Cake?

I hear it’s a bit chilly there today…

Not only can I not pronounce “Beignets” I have no idea what they are.

I don’t understand how Mardi Gras works but I think Arlo is wasting his pearls, they’re supposed to be traded. At least that’s what I learned from Mardi Gras gone wild videos :D

Of course, ask any Alabamian, and they’ll remind you that Mardi Gras in America began in Mobile, AL (and please, it’s pronounced Mu-beel)…..

I’m thinking the beads are payment for earlier…

Chicory coffee? Ugh!!!!

I never go into the city for Mardi Gras. I don’t think anyone is this year what with COVID and the temperature. I once saw a Mardi Gras parade in Albany, NY. Two fire trucks and a limo. They didn’t even throw anything. Not many spectators with all the snow and cold.

I hope Janice knows what she is supposed to do for those beads….

Arlo never stops trying, as he shouldn’t.

More the pity for us.

Geez, Janis! You know the drill! >:-D

I think I’ll stick to Fasching.

Laissez les bon temps rouler!

Reminds of the time traffic was backed up so far behind me, thee lady trying to pull out of Hardees flashed me to get in line in front of me. That was 35 yrs ago and I can still see those headlights!

Arlo’s beads are bigger!

Chicory isn’t coffee and it tastes like $#!+.

They’re not having Mardi Gras this year I hear – people are decorating their houses as floats instead

This year it’s too d______ cold for such nonsense.

Jambalya with red beans and rice? Must be Tuesday at my house.

I grew up in Baton Rouge, and we always got two days off from school for Mardi Gras. It was a bit of culture shock when I moved to North Carolina, and found out that Mardi Gras wasn’t considered a holiday!

My favorite Mardi Gras story: We were at one of many parades, and a woman in a tiger costume on a tiger-themed float pointed at me and threw a looooong bead of big purple beads. It was a delighted and I immediately wrapped it around my neck. Sometime later, while we were walking around the French Quarter, a large man came up to me out of nowhere and said, forcefully, “Gimme those beads!” I grasped the beads (rather like one would grasp her pearls) and said, “I can’t give them to you. The Tiger Woman gave them to me!” He stepped back looking somewhat startled, then just walked away.

Laissez les bons temps rouler!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0UPX0qVJ8H8

My Mom and some friends of hers went to the Mardi Gras one year when she was well into her retirement years. She had the best stories to tell upon her return, but needless to say I’m sure she didn’t relate ALL of the goings on. What happens in New Orleans (not unlike Vegas) stays in New Orleans. She did have some cool beads to show for it though :-)

You couldn’t pay me to go to New Orleans at any time – but especially during Mardi Gras.

Sometimes it takes a different view to get into the spirit of Mardi Gras!

Nobody is going to Mardi Gras this year.

When I went to Mardi Gras, one of the locals asked me if this was my first time there. I said it was my first time in “New Or le ans”. He said not to pronounce it that way. That I sounded like a tourist. I told him I was a tourist. He said it was pronounced “N’Awlins”. LOL

My wife and I went to N’Awlins with another couple to hang out in the French Quarter. Unknown to the woman of the other couple, THEY were going there to get married. She had been pushing marriage for years; they even had a fight about it on the plane. Rob had arranged to get married by a boat captain out on the river; if we were over the border in Mississippi, this was legal. Carol was blown away, and after the wedding we partied like there was no tomorrow.

We were in New Orleans last March before they knew they were a hotbed of the Virus. We loved NOLA. Mind you we were downtown during the day not at night. It was fun and very entertaining. Then we headed to El Paso and part way across heard the health reports from NOLA. We kept and eye on each other for the week we were in EP. we were heading to cali to spend a few weeks in Coachella and Palm Spring but it turns out the Canadian government slapped a travel ban on that area so we slowly wended our way how back to the cold and snow.

It isn’t what you DID do that matters; it’s what you COULD do that’s important.

In the first panel, Arlo appears to have no teeth.

RED beans and rice!