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1. 11 days ago on Andy Capp

   I remember Betty’s trip to Italy. There is also a lengthy segment of Clare which focuses on Claire and Paul taking a trip to Europe. They go to place like France and Switzerland. Claire also has another lengthy story about Claire and Paul spending time at a cabin in the woods. Years ago, Nancy, Sluggo, Aunt Fritzi and Phil Fumble spent the summer helping out at a youth camp. Now that the kids on For Better or Worse are grown – they start having summer adventures. Michael spent a summer working on his uncle’s farm, When Elizabeth goes off to college, she spends a summer teaching in a Native village in the Canadian interior. Family has gone to places like Arizona (The Grand Canyon0 and New York City. The Lockhorns go fishing and spends time living in a tent. Several years ago, Fred’s family spent the summer traveling around the country in an RV. The Bumsteads and Woodleys go camping together for a weekend. Smiffu Smith and his family go hitch up their mule and visit in the “big city.” Red and Rover go for long walks in the woods. The Peanuts kids go to summer camp. Hagar the Horrible took his wife with him on a raid on Paris. Cathy always goes to the teach and it gets more interesting when begins going along with Irving. Momma usually goes to the beach. But best of all – Flo and Andy spend some time at the seaside and, every now and then, have an almost romantic evening out – together!

2. 12 days ago on Andy Capp

   LOVE it when the Cartoonists have the courage to send their characters off on vacation. Andy was the first of my favorite cartoons whom I found online. It’s always great to see Andy finding OTHER places for a snooze beside the living room couch. I often wondered why Flor didn’t move the couch away from the front door so that Andy racked out on the couch wasn’t the first thing visitors saw when they came into the house!

3. 23 days ago on Gasoline Alley

   Wonderful to see some Wallets celebrating the Fourth of July!

4. 24 days ago on Nancy Classics

   During World War II, We were allied with both Russia and China. So, during that time period, you can still find movies, etc., with positive images of both Russia and China. However, AFTER World War II, we switched allies – we became allied with West Germany and Japan and, later, South Korea – and at odds with China, Russia, East Germany and North Korea. The U.S. is singularly different in that way – many of our strongest current allies are countries we once fought a war against. Except for the Civil War inside the U.S. itself. Two of my great-grandfathers were wounded during the Battle of Bull Run in Manassas, Virginia. Following the war, the doctors were recommending that they should go west, where the dry climate would help heal their wounds. In the meantime, doctors for Confederate soldiers were making the same recommendations. So both former Union and former Confederate soldiers headed west. When one of my great grandfathers was laid to rest, the newspaper memorial page made note of the fact that he had never missed marching in the Decoration Day parade—Where he lived, the first Decoration Day was organized by families of Confederate soldiers—which means that, following the real Civil War, the soldiers from both sides, who really had been shooting real bullets out of real guns at one another in a real war, were able to put aside their prejudices in order to honor those who had passed. Which makes it seem very odd that the modern generation, which was NOT around during the real Civil War, seem unwilling to bury all of the animosities which their ancestors were able to leave in the past.

5. 24 days ago on Nancy Classics

   Sounds like something Bob Hope would have said – More likely – sounds like something Bob Hope had a habit of saying at least once a week.

6. 25 days ago on Red and Rover

   I think I look forward to Red and Rover being together all through summer vacation as much as they do. Red and Rover – always wonderful.

7. 25 days ago on Nancy Classics

   Back in those days, comic strips weren’t afraid to comment on political issues – and no one started a movement to have the strips censored. Both Nancy and Mutt and Jeff also made comments from time to time about Communism. Some those political observations also made their way in to the cartoons shown in the theaters. It was also Churchill who coined the phrase “Iron Curtain.” Of course, that was before many people had TV – We had our favorite radio shows. Bob Hope and Fibber McGee and Molly frequently had political jokes. But I don’t remember anyone getting into any fist fights because of a political joke on the radio or in a comic strip.

8. 25 days ago on Nancy Classics

   BACK in the 50s, in our town, nearly everyone went shopping on Saturday. In those days, when kids acted up in the store, the parents took them out to the car for some seat of the pants counseling.. Quite often, that ended the parents shopping trip. The merchants weren’t very happy with that situation, so they went together to sponsor free Saturday afternoon matinees for the kids. Little kids had to come with an older cousin or someone who would keep them in order. The free Saturday matinees were usually Gene Autry, Roy Rogers, Rex Allen movies, with a LOT of cartoons in between – Tom and Jerry, Bugs Bunny. The cowboy movies usually DID focus on the cowboys, and they always seemed to find a girl they could serenade. In one cute Gene Autry movie—A couple swindlers came to Gene’s town, convinced the people they were going to feature the town in a movie and everyone in town “invested” in the movie. After they left, Smiley found a telegram they had from a movie studio and decided they should know they left their telegram behind. When they called the movie studio, they learned the studio never heard of those two guys. They found another telegram which looked like the swindlers were headed to a town in Mexico to work the same scam, so they headed to Mexico to warn the people there not to invest in a scam. When they got to Mexico, the people there didn’t believe there guys were really swindlers—So, naturally, they ended up sparking some romance with some local girls, who eventually helped them expose the swindlers. Lot of music, singing, dancing, and a lot of horseback riding when the swindlers got rounded up. Most of the girls were a lot like Aunt Fritzi, ready to grab her own six-shower, leap up on her horse and head out to round up the swindlers!

9. 26 days ago on Nancy Classics

   WONDERFUL! Really great to see Nancy getting together with her friends to play games – Even greater that Aunt Fritzi decided to join in on the fun! Really great to see kids just playing and having fun. We didn’t get TV in our town until 1957 – so we were probably the last generation to grow up without “The Great Eye” being the lead player in all free time. Today’s “device ridden” generation doesn’t know all the great fun they missed out on by never being able to just go outside and play!

10. about 1 month ago on Nancy Classics

    The problem with anything which used gas is that the people who had gas to sell were very narrow minded and tended to speak in four letter words – such as C A S H! and O N L Y!! We had the same problem with wood and coal. On the Plains, trees were few and far between, so you couldn’t go chop down a tree to fuel your cook stove or pot bellied stove. The people who had coal to sell were also narrow minded and spoke mainly in four letter words – C A S H! and O N L Y!! So we used cow pies to fuel the stoves because all you needed was a burlap bag and walk around in the pasture pick up as many cow pies as you could find – and they were all free. Same case with the wind charger – Once the charger was up, the wind was free, albeit unreliable. We learned years later that we were probably lucky that we all used dry cow pies for fuel – because the cow pies had fewer carcinogens than wood or coal.