You know that little bulletin board that every coffee shop has, with a couple of business cards and some cartoons? This is one of those for our coffee shop.
This inaugeral cartoon is especially for Teresa, Kjell, and any of the rest of us that play with digital photos.
Cute!!! and a cartoon thread is a good idea. Why didn't I think of that?
C'mon, Frawgie, some of us don't know beans about how to put a cartoon on our posts.
Wah, wah, wah! I want one!
Well, for openers, they are randomly spread across the internet. That's where I usually come across them. And I must admit to being a New Yorker Magazine cartoon fan, and even to having a daily calendar on my desk of New Yorker cartoons. Those, I scan, so if you don't have a scanner they would be a problem.
However, if you run across a cartoon you like on the internet, you could place the mouse cursor over the cartoon, then right-click your mouse. Pick the option "Save Picture As." Usually, when you do that, it will want to to save it in your "My Pictures" directory, which is fine. In the "Save File" box, give it a name you'll remember and save it.
Then log onto the forum and use the upload feature, as described elsewhere to upload it.
I should note here that there are probably copyright issues involved here, so I guess you could study up on those.
Does that help?
One of my favorites:
Hey, Frawgie, do you like that one?
Personally, I love it!! :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: :laugh:
I already had that one. Has anybody here ever played frawg-in-a-blender? I think I have a link to it somewhere. People have been sending me demise-of-a-frog stuff for years. I'll see if I can find frog in a blender...
I've seen the "Bass-O-Matic"
Okay, I promised it. Here is the Frog-in-a-Blender:
http://www.joecartoon.com/cartoons/67-frog_in_a_blender (http://www.joecartoon.com/cartoons/67-frog_in_a_blender)
Hint: click on the blender speed buttons one at a time, starting at the left.
;D
ps - Janet should love this!
What a riot! ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D
I will die a thousand (messy and comical) deaths for this forum.
;D
That makes me think of this . . . (not quite as gross, thank you)
Yes! Love the blender. I Googled "Ta Ta in a Blender" but it froze up my computer. Wonder why?
There might be some sort of a law about even imagining Ta-Ta in a blender. She has powerful friends, you know. Well, besides the Queen.
;D
Windows commands we need to have added:
Quote from: Kermit on July 26, 2007, 06:33:41 PM
ps - Janet should love this!
When we first started fooling around with the internet, we got all of those kinds of things. The frog in the blender. The hamster in the microwave. Pretty funny!
To show you how bent I really am, yesterday part of what I did was an adult session on fire safety, while the kids were with my friend Irene, trying on all her gear. I tend to use a lot of props. A melted smoke detector, a burned tea kettle, a melted clock radio covered in chicken feathers and others. I passed around a plastic freezer bag that held some pieces of chunky, black, crispy stuff that looks a bit like charcoal. After they had a chance to look it over and guess what it was, I asked if any one remembered the cartoon about the lady who dried her cat in the microwave. After a lot of horrified looks I said, "That's not it." It was chunks of creosote from a chimney fire, as a reminder to the wood burners to have their chimneys checked and /or cleaned before fall. If they have burned a cord of wood since last year.
Not, strictly speaking, a cartoon. It should appeal here, however.
What a photo! Did you take it?
Boy, I wish I had.
:(
Medications, yikes!
Ain't it the truth?
ouch that hits home :laugh:
I inherited a sensitivity to drugs from my father. There are not all that many I can take without getting whacked big-time by the side-effects. The worst time in my life was when, after my cancer operation, I had a systemic staph infection that they found, then ignored. So the violent shaking in my hands, the huge (almost strangling) facial tic, the inability to stand up, etc. were all chalked up to my MS.
So they kept prescribing more and more neurological drugs while I got more and worse symptoms. I finally wound up in the emergency room in an ambulance, where one of the new, young doctors discovered the staph infection. Later, my own doctor told me that he had been told that I wouldn't have lived another 12 hours outside of a hospital. As it was, it was nip and tuck for six days.
Drugs are not my friend.
You sure have had a time of it. I'm so sorry. Al was diagnosed with Lyme disease AGAIN a couple of weeks ago. So he's on strong antibiotics for 40 days. Once again we caught it early. It is an awful disease. Thank goodness, we have a great Doc who has respect for our medical backgrounds. I suspected Lyme both times and the blood tests proved me right. He can really relate to that cartoon too. Unfortunately hospital infections are becoming more and more common. You may go out with more than you came in with!
That has certainly worked out for me. :o
Yikes! I'm glad your doctor is on the ball. I had a great friend when I lived in Lenexa that just suddenly started to come unglued. His doctor could not figure out what the problem was. TWO YEARS LATER, after Bill had the worst of both Parkinsons and MS, he finally figured out it was Lyme. It was a little late by then!
I'm sure glad that Al got diagnosed quickly. That stuff is nasty!
I know you read a lot, so you may already know about this, but there is some thought that Lyme may be an escapee from Operation Paperclip.
Well, THAT would be enough to piss off a saint!
>:(
I think this is pretty much the way my wife views travelling. ;D
Does she have TB too? ( tiny bladder)
And that's odd, since our daughter can wait almost forever. For some reason I can wait forever plus a little while. That came in handy when I was driving back and forth across the country a lot. My MO was to stop every four hundred miles. At that stop, I tried to fill my gas tank, empty my tank, re-fill my thermos with coffee, and get two McDonald's cheeseburgers.
It's not that I like McDonald's cheeseburgers, really. It is just that there is absolutely no danger of any component of a McDonald's cheeseburger ever coming loose regardless of how much you move it around while you eat and drive. It may be the safest road food ever, although certainly not the best, if you don't want to stop and eat, yet don't want dinner all over the interior and yourself.
;)
;D ;D ;D ;D
Then there's the Walmart crowd...
A new life motto for yours truly!
That one has been around for years, and I laugh every time I see it.
Quote from: Kermit on August 01, 2007, 06:54:51 PM
Then there's the Walmart crowd...
I first discovered Wal-Mart when we lived in Altus, OK. Sunday early afternoons were the WORST time to go shopping. The thing to do was to put on your Sunday best, go to church and then take a family outing to Wal-Mart. Believe me, when everyone is wearing suits and dresses with hats, when you show up in a pair of sweats and a flannel shirt, you definately feel out of place. :)
Well, Amber, I can't vouch for the selection or quality of the Dollar Palace, but I'm pretty sure I would feel more at home there on Sunday morning than I would with the fancy set at Walmart. I'm believe that people go home and change first in Lawrence, judging from the folks in the parking lot here. Fact is, some of them don't look like they have been home since Saturday.
;)
At the Independence Wal-Mart, Sunday, right after church is a terrible time to shop. Everyone does come in their Sunday clothes to shop. If you go in jeans and a T-shirt, you feel dowdy.
I remember it was a big deal to go out and have breakfast after church in Omaha. I remember the same thing in Columbus, OH, in the period that I was there most of the time. Every Village Inn, Bob Evan's, Denny's, Perkins, and all those would be full with people waiting out the door. The only place you could go and actually eat was at the Waffle House.
;)
Ick, Waffle House.
The only one I've been to was in..... Alabama, I think? It was dirty and sticky, and greasy, and my husband was just raving, "WAFFLE HOUSE!!! I haven't eaten at one of these since Tech School!!!"
Blech!!!!
IHOP is sort of like that here. That's okay, I don't eat at chain places too much any more. The food is often way below average and the prices can be much higher. Local places are usually much better.
I remember when IHOP was just that quirky little pancake house with the REALLY long name. There was one in Federal Way and that was the only one I knew of in the Puget Sound area. It was really good, and then everything got all "commercialized". Now they are EVERYWHERE and nothing tastes "homemade" anymore.
Well, that, and if you sit anything down anywhere in an IHOP, it instantly becomes glued to the surface you put it on. I think those places are about 15% syrup. I often have a book with me when I eat, and I treat books better than that.
;)
I have found that any eating place, national chain or mom and pop operation, is only as good as the cook.
But sometimes the cook can only cook what the corporation says he can cook, using only the ingredients the corporation says he can use. And that ain't good. Please see Rudy's chapter on the cook at his grade school.
;D
You mean "Freda Flyshacker"
True in most cases, but more and more, the sauces and gravies and such are produced in a factory, frozen and shipped to the individual chain locations. Or they come in powder form and all the restraunt does is add water. Old Country Buffet is one of those that uses powder mixes for thier desserts, and sauces; and all of the meat and side dishes are frozen. The only things that are fresh are the salad fixin's and the carved meat.
We don't eat there anymore.
And the cooks in places like those don't get paid much more than the busboys. You can't make good food out of mediocre ingredients. All too often, it is just plastic food. Ask your local restaurateur about the difference between Lila's and Chiles, or Poplar Pizza and Applebees. And those are a couple of the marginally acceptable chain restaurants, where we'll eat in a pinch. If I were you, though, I would not ask them about Denny's and IHOP.