tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2078555944130693773.post3597491455445098508..comments2024-03-21T17:49:54.837-06:00Comments on Ward Cartoonist: How Far Away is That Airplane?Arie Van De Graaffhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12170926603517840899noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2078555944130693773.post-38386392410542241732012-05-08T09:00:18.393-06:002012-05-08T09:00:18.393-06:00Let that be a lesson to the rest of you: never pic...Let that be a lesson to the rest of you: never pick a fight with a cartoonist--he can always draw a loser version of you 20 years later.Arie Van De Graaffhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12170926603517840899noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2078555944130693773.post-29838911995337482942012-05-07T17:17:29.778-06:002012-05-07T17:17:29.778-06:00Your explanation of this gag makes me wonder how m...Your explanation of this gag makes me wonder how many of your companions you've recreated as smaller, nerdier versions of themselves.Kelseyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01115129839830218843noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2078555944130693773.post-47472758176845235852012-05-02T12:31:10.479-06:002012-05-02T12:31:10.479-06:00My first companion used to do this kind of stuff a...My first companion used to do this kind of stuff as well. I think he was a relatively unhappy missionary and his few months left must have seemed like an eternity. I was just as happy to see him get on that airplane as he was.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01454044084645548171noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2078555944130693773.post-73110321155688886782012-04-30T16:29:33.829-06:002012-04-30T16:29:33.829-06:00G-Dog, I love your story. Although, I suspect I wo...G-Dog, I love your story. Although, I suspect I wouldn't have liked it so much had I been one of those greenies.Arie Van De Graaffhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12170926603517840899noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2078555944130693773.post-74963538389770439212012-04-30T14:46:13.788-06:002012-04-30T14:46:13.788-06:00With my last companion (since our mission ended th...With my last companion (since our mission ended the same time) we burned about a dozen CDs with about a dozen different arrangements of the song "I'm leaving on a jetplane" on it and then we handed them out to all the greenies :) <br />Since this was finally a bit different than the "how far is that airplane?" question which they already heard about a million times by that time, most of them had a pretty good laugh about our little gift :) I have to admit though that since my comp was about 6'4" and I was 6'6" and we both weighed about 300lbs at the time, I suspect that their smile was probably a little fake :)G-Dognoreply@blogger.com