Wednesday, March 20, 2013

That's Rough

Yup, yup, yup. War widow, gotcha... yeah, that really stinks. ANNNNNNNNNNYWAY. Want to see my boy? He's right over here, by the Arlington National fence.

This strip has forced me to do lots of Google searches for Arlington National Cemetery, and I have to say, it's truly a breathtaking site. I've never been in person, but I'll try to visit next time I'm in DC. That said, I did not see any fences or blue houses on site in the photos.


Addendum 3/21/2013: holy hotlinking! I didn't even know what hotlinking was until Inkwell brought it up in the comments. I'm embarrassed, everyone! But I've learned something and I'm trying (bravely) to move on with my life. The image above is hosted here, but Google images has so many good ones it was hard to pick. 

14 comments:

NonnyMus said...

Oh, you didn't know that back in the 1970's a housing subdivision was at Arlington National Cemetery? Yeah, there wasn't...

It's just another Frank fail. Sad, really.

Inkwell said...

Maggie, you rebel! Hotlinking?

What photo were you trying to post? I'm just getting an image saying to host it on my own server.

Lost in the Worthiverse said...

I thought it might be the Lee Custiss Mansion but it's not!

See for yourself!!

http://tinyurl.com/c3hkp7j

Inkwell, you can click on the notice. It takes you to a Google images page.

Inkwell said...

^ I know, but the Google images page has tons of images. I'm just curious what the exact one Maggie wanted to embed is.

I swear, I burst out laughing when I saw the comics this morning. "That's rough"?!

Ken said...

How is being married on the day he shipped out relevant? Are we supposed to understand that the marriage was not consummated or there was just some heavy petting? That seems like way too much information for some old guy hanging out in the cemetery looking for sobbing widows.

We keep pointing out Frank's fails, but this story line has Margaret fail all over it.

Anonymous said...

It looks like there might have been a fence...in 1867.

pq said...

Wow. I live right by Arlington, and I can tell you with all confidence that there are not any housing divisions behind a fence. Maybe Frank intends that to be a building at Fort Myer, or the Lee-Custis mansion, or... um... the Pentagon seen from an angle that makes it look like a Cape Cod?...

pq said...

Oh, and YES the stone are all WHITE, for crying out loud!

Also, Maggie and anyone else, YES, do visit the cemetery when you're in town. It is simply lovely. You might think it's depressing, but I don't find it so. I read a feature once in the Washington Post about how floored foreign leaders are when they visit and find that the generals and the privates are memorialized by the same modest white stone. Bring your walking shoes and water, though; it's huge and hilly.

NonnyMus said...

@Ken, Every strip has Margaret fail all over it! Tell-not-show, truncated plots, crappy endings... Margaret does all the fails!!

Maggie said...

Ah!! Hotlinking!! I'm embarrassed. See my addendum in the blog post.

Re: Margaret/Frank fails: I honestly think Margaret is writing to tell and not show because she's trying to make things easy on Frank, who is 88 years old and obviously doesn't Google things for reference. I have to believe that! As for this latest truncated plot, my guess is that Margaret was facing intense pressure to wrap things up from the "keep Christmas in December" lobby. Still, though!

Toots McGee said...

C'mon Luann, I'll show you the escalator to the Rosslyn Metro station. Its the third longest continuous span escalator in the world.

Oh boy, sounds neat, Mr. Clark.

Lost in the Worthiverse said...

@Toots, when I was young and fit, I used to run up that escalator every evening. It was brand spanking new the, which gives you an idea of how long ago that was!

Thanks for spurring a long-lost memory!

NonnyMus said...

@Maggie,

I love this blog, but can't cut Margaret Shulock any slack for starting an interesting plot and then cutting it off only to start an uninteresting plot and cut that off as well... and with such a hokey device as disappearance into the mist! Oy!

It's funny as hell, but it's also so sloppy it make me mad.

I don't know, but don't the writers give notes to the artist as well as dialogue? It would be great if Margaret started showing not telling, stopped premature truncation and gave Frank better notes such as, "go to this website for photos of the location and get someone to help you if you can't find it."

Just sayin'...

As for the hotlinking, just be grateful the photo's site owner didn't swap out the photo with one alleging that you were a jackass or thief!! It's happened.

pq said...

@toots, an update: now the Wheaton station has the second longest escalator in the world, whereas Rosslyn is the third longest escalator in the Metro system. I can't believe I just wasted 2 minutes of my life looking that up!