tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1243661303845968536.post5668353465423373425..comments2023-11-23T04:26:01.790-08:00Comments on Gone & Forgotten: FORGOTTEN FOES : JUMPIN’ JACK AND THE GASSERCalamity Jonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01800364546694770009noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1243661303845968536.post-50457807207704566582017-03-01T21:40:22.920-08:002017-03-01T21:40:22.920-08:00"Jumping Jacks" was a standard gym excer..."Jumping Jacks" was a standard gym excercise. Or maybe The King was thinking of Victorian London's "Spring-Heeled Jack".Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17398585561509677836noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1243661303845968536.post-82319806829435014622017-03-01T21:37:21.020-08:002017-03-01T21:37:21.020-08:00"Jumping Jacks" was (still?) a standard ..."Jumping Jacks" was (still?) a standard gym excercise...maybe JK was thinking of Victorian London's mysterious "Spring -Heeled Jack".Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17398585561509677836noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1243661303845968536.post-45001859230805071092015-06-19T19:17:06.985-07:002015-06-19T19:17:06.985-07:00Sure does seem like Kirby must have listened to th...Sure does seem like Kirby must have listened to the Stones---at least once. A guy I used to know insisted, without the barest hint of irony, that Kirby MUST have been a gigantic fan of Jimi Hendrix; that nobody could possibly draw the stuff Jack did without listening to heaving gutfuls of Hendrix on a regular basis. I can't defend his logic, but it's a wonderful thing to imagine.James W. Fry 3.0https://www.blogger.com/profile/11996867254857648771noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1243661303845968536.post-26997657408620127422015-06-19T19:17:06.809-07:002015-06-19T19:17:06.809-07:00Sure does seem like Kirby must have listened to th...Sure does seem like Kirby must have listened to the Stones---at least once. A guy I used to know insisted, without the barest hint of irony, that Kirby MUST have been a gigantic fan of Jimi Hendrix; that nobody could possibly draw the stuff Jack did without listening to heaving gutfuls of Hendrix on a regular basis. I can't defend his logic, but it's a wonderful thing to imagine.James W. Fry 3.0https://www.blogger.com/profile/11996867254857648771noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1243661303845968536.post-66348943161715627712015-06-19T13:34:54.761-07:002015-06-19T13:34:54.761-07:00Speaking of Tyvek “clean suits” (and you totally w...Speaking of Tyvek “clean suits” (and you totally were) ... <br /><br />One of my dorm-mates in college had previously worked for a company that had restricted areas you could only enter while wearing one of those hooded Tyvek numbers, which the employees called "bunny suits". He managed to lift a sign that read "No One Allowed Beyond Yellow Line Without Bunny Suit", which we proudly hung by the front door. Yes, we put a strip of yellow tape on the floor.neofishboyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15629678962112182828noreply@blogger.com