{"id":23,"date":"2015-03-13T21:37:03","date_gmt":"2015-03-14T01:37:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sallysense.com\/blog1\/?page_id=23"},"modified":"2015-03-13T22:01:18","modified_gmt":"2015-03-14T02:01:18","slug":"too-few-cartoons","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sallysense.com\/blog1\/too-few-cartoons\/","title":{"rendered":"too few cartoons&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>or some fun-liners&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>~~~<\/p>\n<p>the weekend gave into mid-week so quickly&#8230;<br \/>\nit might be weak-kneed from some kinda daze!&#8230; \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>a group&#8217;a songs got together and threw a party to honor music!&#8230;<br \/>\nso when it came time for their honored guest to say a few words&#8230;<br \/>\nmusic turned to its hosts and let those songs do it!&#8230; \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>gonna watch some sunshine keep the celebration goin&#8217; where moonlight sang the night away and danced till dawn!&#8230; \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>been wonderin&#8217; about the sitting room on a train&#8230;<br \/>\nso this&#8217;un&#8217;s gonna take a ride in the parlor car!&#8230; \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>did ya hear how a buncha songs went train hoppin&#8217;?!&#8230;<br \/>\nthey jumped into a boxcar hopin&#8217; for a place to sit and got lucky!&#8230;<br \/>\nin the corner laid a hobo with enough room on his lips for all ten&#8217;a them tunes!&#8230; \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>gonna take my transistor radio downtown&#8230;<br \/>\nand see what&#8217;s comin&#8217; in at the station&#8230; \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>a neighbor lady said she&#8217;s baking the cake of the future!&#8230;<br \/>\nand she just came over to borrow a cup of tomorrow!&#8230; \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>gonna go hear some modulated homing pigeons&#8230;<br \/>\nbecome full radio systems for their own coos&#8217;n&#8217;whistles!&#8230; \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>looks like this rain drizzle&#8217;s colorin&#8217; another shade for the house painters to stay dry under&#8230; \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>just heard this joke over my walkie-talkie&#8230;<br \/>\n(question) &#8220;what do ya call a sleeping bag that&#8217;s back at the campground ?&#8221;&#8230;<br \/>\n(answer) &#8220;a-stroll-away-bed !&#8221;&#8230; \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>gonna mosey on into town&#8230;<br \/>\nand watch the spike in pedestrian traffic comin&#8217; from that price hike at the gas pumps&#8230; \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>gonna head down to the field and see if there&#8217;s any pop corn in those doo dads yet!&#8230; \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>heard this joke from a fly on some wall&#8230;<br \/>\n&#8220;what did a spider leave at the wedding&#8230; (?)&#8230;<br \/>\na webbing present !&#8221;&#8230; \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>(gee&#8230; and then that fly told me how he easily found his way to the reception&#8230;<br \/>\n&#8220;it was a piece&#8217;a cake!&#8221; he said!)&#8230; \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>gonna go see how many meows a sip&#8217;a catnip tea can let out!&#8230; \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>wonder if any legs&#8217;a journeys&#8217;ll be takin&#8217; that noontime stage sometime soon ?&#8230; \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>sent my piggy bank&#8217;a pennies down to the gym&#8230;<br \/>\nto do some calisthenics in hopes they&#8217;d stretch farther&#8230;<br \/>\nand by darn they returned like a wealth&#8217;a small change!&#8230; \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>gotta go retrieve my homing pigeon&#8230;<br \/>\n(he bought into a get-rich-quick scheme down at the feather duster factory&#8230;<br \/>\nonly to end up gettin&#8217; clipped&#8230;<br \/>\nand now he&#8217;s outta commission for awhile)&#8230; \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>~~~<\/p>\n<p>\/\/\/\/<br \/>\n00<br \/>\no<br \/>\nU<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;guess what ?!&#8230; i started collecting modern antiques!&#8221;&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>\\\\\\<br \/>\n00<br \/>\no<br \/>\no<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;modern antiques ?&#8221;&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>\/\/\/\/<br \/>\n00<br \/>\no<br \/>\nU<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;yeah!&#8230; and i only have to dust part of &#8217;em!&#8221;&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>~~~<\/p>\n<p>here&#8217;s the latest fruitcake joke&#8230;<br \/>\n(question) &#8220;how do ya get a banana peal to take its toll on a southern bell ?&#8221;&#8230;<br \/>\n(answer) &#8220;misspell!&#8221;&#8230; \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>gonna take a cherry picker out to the airport in hopes to see a fruit fly&#8230; \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>gonna head down to the train station&#8217;n&#8217;bus depot&#8230;<br \/>\nand send some cheerios on their merry way with hungry folks there!&#8230; \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>gonna head downtown to that big sale!&#8230;<br \/>\n(it still wonders me how they think they can now sell all that stuff under &#8220;everything must go!&#8221;&#8230;<br \/>\nwhen they couldn&#8217;t do it before through &#8220;offers you can&#8217;t refuse!&#8221;)&#8230; \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>gonna head down to the harbor and help an ark farmer launch his waterproof barn&#8230; \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>gonna head downstream and see how many endangered species are in the same boat these days&#8230; \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>gonna head down memory lane&#8230;<br \/>\nand see if anything&#8217;s changed since a family tree farmer bought up the old homestead&#8230; \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>(noah&#8217;s ark brings to mind bein&#8217; stuck in the mojave desert one time&#8230;<br \/>\nwith just a bottle&#8217;a water and a box&#8217;a iced animal crackers)&#8230; (yeah really though)&#8230; \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>the noses that run in our family are always close at hand!&#8230; \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>gonna head over to the park bench and watch some true pennies share their two cents&#8230; \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>gonna head downtown to the skyscraper&#8230;<br \/>\nand see if they&#8217;re still usin&#8217; elevator music to raise questions !&#8230; \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>a retired professor took over our local tavern&#8230;<br \/>\nand now all the song selections on the jukebox&#8217;re set up like a multiple choice test!&#8230; \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>ever wonder how they keep them sugar bowls at the diner filled with such sweet talk ?!&#8230; \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>can ya just answer me this&#8230; is \u2018in question\u2019 outta the question ?&#8230; \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>gonna check out the local scene&#8230;<br \/>\n(heard a band&#8217;a petty thieves got their songs comin&#8217; in loud&#8217;n&#8217;clear over the police scanner!)&#8230; \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>from gettin&#8217; the goods on songs!&#8230; to bags&#8217;a loot in music&#8217;s evidence room!&#8230; \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>this lunartic&#8217;s gonna go see if that man-in-the-moonshine&#8217;s glowin&#8217; at noontime again!&#8230; \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>them snowflakes&#8217;re fallin&#8217; like it&#8217;s rainin&#8217; cats&#8217;n&#8217;dogs with ice skates on!&#8230; \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>wonder if there&#8217;s musical group therapy for bein&#8217; nuts about loony tunes ?&#8230; \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>off to see what the dog&#8217;s got&#8230;<br \/>\n(kinda looks like somethin&#8217; the cat dragged in)&#8230; \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>(was hopin&#8217; to get somethin&#8217; outta the dog but the cat got his tongue!)&#8230; \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>gonna see if the vacant lot&#8217;s taken in any new nothings lately&#8230; \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>the worktable needs some legs under it&#8230; \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>gonna see which one it is that takes one to know one&#8230; \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>gonna find out if the house numbers uptown\u2019re naturally high&#8230; \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>speakin&#8217;a renowned&#8230;<br \/>\nright now our big time small town crier&#8217;s outside the luncheonette&#8230;<br \/>\nboastin&#8217;a how much the local gossip gets talked about!&#8230; \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>the rise i get outta double digits knocks my socks off and i can count on my toes!&#8230; \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>gonna head out and let my sense&#8217;a direction find the next intersection&#8230; \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>my knowledge base ain&#8217;t broad enough to hold many widely known names&#8230; \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>gonna check out the alley where that fruit bowls again&#8230;<br \/>\n(they say the next lane over has some sour grapes fillin&#8217; in since a banana gotta split)&#8230; \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>our town&#8217;s new healthcare plan starts today!&#8230;<br \/>\n(every case&#8217;a cabin fever gets a free street map!)&#8230; \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>gonna send a ton&#8217;a do-it-yourself warmonger muzzle loaders overseas&#8230;<br \/>\nand hope and pray that violence turns silent&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>talk about right up my alley!&#8230; (headed out to shoot a little pool&#8230;<br \/>\nand seen some apples go down the gutter where the fruit bowl smashed!)&#8230; \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>gonna go see if the local blood drive&#8217;ll let mine get behind the wheel&#8217;a their bloodmobile&#8230; \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>pulled the wool over my eyes and now this sweater&#8217;s lookin&#8217; for a sparring partner&#8230; \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>gonna go see if s&#8217;more step-wise strides let on where their ones for the road&#8217;re gonna be&#8230; \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>last night&#8217;s man-in-the-moon-shine shown through&#8230;<br \/>\nlike a cameo&#8217;s appearance inside an heirloom ruffle&#8217;a blood-tinged fringes!&#8230; \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>gonna head out like the crow flies and see how it glides through a nightspot&#8230; \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>my vote&#8217;s gettin&#8217; ready to leave home with its bindle&#8217;n&#8217;walkin&#8217; stick&#8230;<br \/>\nin hopes&#8217;a reachin&#8217; the polls by tuesday&#8230; \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>gonna take a stroll down to the banquet hall&#8230;<br \/>\n(they bought a truckload&#8217;a frozen fast food and hope their walk-in freezer&#8217;ll run now!)&#8230; \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>been thinkin&#8217; about how a fountain&#8217;a youth ends up with a nation&#8217;s oldest city&#8230;<br \/>\nthanks to vintage kids around&#8230; \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>gonna head out to the garden&#8230;<br \/>\nwhere some late bloomers are just startin&#8217; to go through their early childhoods&#8230; \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>gonna tuck some notes in a bottle and send that school&#8217;a thought off on a planetary field trip&#8230; \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>gonna open this thermos and let the aroma blaze a trail for my nose to follow&#8230; \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>gonna go watch a homemade rainbow shade some sunflowers under parasols&#8217;a water&#8230; \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>woke up with my two cents just beggin&#8217; to be spent on a soapbox&#8230; \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>gonna head down to the gym&#8230;<br \/>\nand watch the morning trainer wait for a cuppa regular joe to finish its warm-up exercises&#8230; \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>re-invested my flat jokes into s&#8217;more laughingstock&#8230;<br \/>\nonly to find out it takes a solid gigglebox to getta rise outta such dividends&#8230; \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>gonna take a long joke out for a jog around that laugh track and change the pace a bit&#8230; \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>can the big apple a day keep a country doctor away&#8230; (?)&#8230; \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>gonna take a short cut down to the sawmill and see how many one by one&#8217;s can still get two by four&#8217;s to do a double take&#8230; \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>gonna sing into a balloon and see how high&#8217;a frequency that ball&#8217;a call letters rises to&#8230; \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>gonna feel s&#8217;more heat&#8217;n&#8217;humidity crawl past noontime and help this evenin&#8217;s shorter daylight write another summery summary&#8230; \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>wonder if a dog would tree bears in field trials ?&#8230; hehehe&#8230;<br \/>\n(or will it plead guilty to bein&#8217; too corny ?&#8230; hehehe)&#8230; \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>just back in time from seein&#8217; a quack who treated my big goose egg!&#8230; \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>gotta go doctor a pot\u2019a extra slow-cooked baked beans with some catch-up!&#8230; \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>gonna see if 20\/20 vision&#8217;ll still get me ahead&#8217;a myself&#8230; \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>gonna see what the diner got on its jukebox for lunch today&#8230; \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>got some popcorn hankerin&#8217; to turn the stove top into an indoor shootin&#8217; range&#8230; \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>just combed my head for a hair raising story&#8230;<br \/>\nonly to come up with a pony tale&#8230; \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>gonna take out my braid now&#8230;<br \/>\nand not for a night cap either&#8230; \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>gonna go keep these innards warm with s&#8217;more&#8217;a tonight&#8217;s moon shine!&#8230; \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>gonna take that ice cream truck out for some double dips&#8230;<br \/>\nthrough a couple&#8217;a april showers\u2019 puddles now&#8230; \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>gonna run down to the local luncheonette a second time today&#8230;<br \/>\nand see if their special&#8217;a mexican chili&#8217;n&#8217;chinese noodles repeats on me too&#8230;<br \/>\n(hehehe&#8230; and ingest in jest please)&#8230; \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>gonna see what the next two hands on deck can do!&#8230; \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>gonna see if a short spin&#8217;ll top off another full tank&#8217;a fumes today&#8230; \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>gonna head out&#8217;n&#8217;watch that barn dance till them cows come home again&#8230; \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>went down to my cold storage route seller and found an ice cream truck!&#8230; \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>gonna let binocular occupancy see if bird watchers field glasses like baseball players fieldin&#8217; flies ?&#8230; \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>so if the early bird gets the worm&#8230; can a later one pick from the lunchwagon ?&#8230; \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>gonna pull some&#8217;a the warnin&#8217; labels off these safety glasses so\u2019s i can see better&#8230; \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>gonna head down to our local drug store&#8230;<br \/>\nand see if a prescription for bigger price cuts is too hard&#8217;a pill to swallow&#8230; \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>just got off the phone with a victorian fixer-upper after a doctor made that house call&#8230; \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>gonna go open a door before the lock&#8217;s gotta spring for s&#8217;more keys&#8230; \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>a fresh cuppa cowboy coffee arrived by pony expresso this mornin&#8217;!&#8230; \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>heard there\u2019s a layover on mankind&#8217;s longitudinal latitudinarian heir lines&#8230; \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>gonna get out that triangular map&#8217;n&#8217;take some recyclables for a walk later on&#8230; \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>that mornin&#8217; moon hung around for some breakfast&#8230;<br \/>\nand well&#8230; gonna see if he&#8217;s comin&#8217; back for lunch at noon&#8230;<br \/>\nand guess what ?!&#8230; after the moon didn&#8217;t come back at noon today&#8230;<br \/>\nthe sun moved in&#8217;n&#8217;occupied that same spot for awhile&#8230;<br \/>\n(hehehe&#8230; yeah really!)&#8230; \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>gee now&#8230; talk about a fast pace!&#8230; the icing almost ran at the cake walk!&#8230; \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>gonna find out how far a stretch&#8217;a time can reach&#8230; \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>you wonder why i\u2019m handing in a blank paper ?&#8230;<br \/>\nwell i did my math homework at noontime&#8230;<br \/>\nbut the numbers were out to lunch!&#8230; \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>how countdowns add up is a plus sign alright!&#8230; \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>gonna head down to the second-hand shop for some smoke&#8230; <\/p>\n<p>ain&#8217;t nothin&#8217; like leftovers to soak in that flavor&#8217;a gratitude!&#8230; \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>hittin&#8217; them streets tonight like a stay-at-home trickers&#8217; treater greeter again&#8230; \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>ain&#8217;t nothin&#8217; quite like california&#8217;s caligraphy for musical penmanship&#8217;n&#8217;songful landwriting!&#8230; \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>gonna go listen to mother nature sing some gospels&#8217;n&#8217;hymns today&#8230; \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>just place a big seashell near your ear&#8230;<br \/>\nand wherever you both might roam&#8230;<br \/>\nyou may still hear its own gps device&#8230;<br \/>\nlink a musical map to that ocean at home!&#8230; 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