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1. 18 days ago on Pearls Before Swine

   Nah, its just Gilligan moving the professor’s stick out into deeper water to catch bigger lobster.

2. about 1 month ago on Arlo and Janis

   I drove a paper route for a couple of years. Afternoon paper and a Sunday morning paper. Delivered those starting about 1am on a 100 mile route out in the county. So one Saturday night there was a horrible ice storm. Corporate told us, no mailboxes or paper tubes. Too dangerous because of risk of sliding off into a ditch. I double bagged all the papers and, where I could, I put them in mailboxes and paper tubes. Took 13 hours to finish the route. When I got home, my manager called me and said someone had reported to corporate that they didn’t get a paper. I got back in my car, ice storm and all, and drove to their house, knowing full well I had delivered it. They had a HUGE ditch so I had put it in their driveway. When I knocked on their door with their replacement paper, they were all in the living room with their paper spread out, kids reading the comics, husband reading sports and lady had the lifestyle section in her hand. She had lied to corporate because her paper wasn’t in her mailbox. There were harsh penalties imposed by me for this injustice. I won’t go into detail. Life of a paper boy is interesting. You haven’t known surprise unless you have opened a mail box at 3am that someone has locked a cat in the day before or stepped out of the car while leaving a subdivision to take a whizz only to encounter the 6ft rattlesnake you apparently ticked off on your way in.

3. about 1 month ago on Arlo and Janis

   You are correct. Leap year has it on 19th.

4. about 1 month ago on Arlo and Janis

   There are only a couple of decent box wines on the market. I was unemployed for a year and had to drink cheaper wine. There is a french Rose that is fairly good and it comes in a box. There was 1 cabernet in a box that I could tolerate if needed. Im currently a victim of another company downsizing and have essentially given up drinking for a bit. But yes, box wine will keep longer, or so I have been told. A box is the equivalent of 4 bottles or 2 magnums.

5. about 1 month ago on Luann

   TJ would be the nanny.

6. about 2 months ago on Arlo and Janis

   Speaking from experience, they should wait for the interest rates to drop. We had been house hunting for a few years. The perfect house came along back in August and we closed in September. The same week the interest rates went up twice in a week and housing market died. That is also the week we listed our old place. Still hasn’t sold yet. We have a low low offer today and since we are bleeding money, we’ll probably have to take it. Did I mention we closed on the house a week and a half before my company downsized and eliminated my position and I still have not had a job offer?

7. 2 months ago on Luann

   Who called who?

8. 3 months ago on Arlo and Janis

   Wife had been coloring her hair blonde forever. Turns out her natural color was that white that was so popular a few years ago. So she colored it once, that color, and never had to color it again. I’m a little gray now but very thankful I still have my hair. Never wore a hat and that may have helped. I’ve always thought, for women, healthy hair was most attractive regardless of color. I’ve always felt the ones that did the most to their hair, color, hairspray, chemicals for fullness, chemicals for curls or waves, chemicals for hold, tended to make their hair frizzy and thin. I remember working with a woman from China many years ago. She was quite up in age but her hair was so thick and healthy looking. She said that she would, from time to time, soak a towel in whiskey and wrap it around her head and let the alcohol clean out her pores and follicles. Healthy scalp was the key she said.

9. 3 months ago on Arlo and Janis

   For 20 years our condo was right across the street from my favorite grocery store. I made at least 1 trip there everyday and usually a second trip to get what I initially went there for. We’ve recently moved. We’re still inside the city loop but the nearest grocery store is 8 minutes away. My memory, all of a sudden, has improved greatly. My wife gets mad when I tell everyone that we moved out to the country, out in the sticks.

10. 3 months ago on Arlo and Janis

    I grill out about 3 times a week year round. I’ve grilled in tropical storms and when tornado sirens are screaming. Couple of weeks ago I brushed 6 inches of snow off my grill and cooked steaks in 10 degree weather. We just moved from a condo where I had a balcony that I grilled and hung out on for 20 years. It was wonderful but I needed outdoor space. We moved into a house a few months ago and have a nice backyard, patio and screened in patio. I’m outside, don’t care what season or weather is like.