“NAFTA” was started before 1988 between Canada and the US. Reagan was president then. For Canadian workers to qualify for employment in the US the had to have university degrees in science or engineering (STEM).
“No more pencilsNo more booksNo more teachers’ dirty looks”
This goes back to the end of my first grade, I won’t say exactly when but it was quite a while ago. In my own memory, however, starting school in a new grade was always an adventure.
The Gasoline Alley strip started before I was born but I read it occasionally during the 50s and 60s but actually I remember very little about this. Dad may have read this strip and recalled how Warden Gordon would crack his knuckles. When I took this habit up in my teens Dad would get quite angry with me. Too bad I can’t question Dad about this because he’s been gone since 1980.
52 degrees isn’t bad. Back when I was in high school we did PE outside once the snow was melted and temperature was above 40. Here in Mo lots of old guys wear shorts when the temperature is well below freezing. My thoughts are that this just a fashion statement by these old guys who are not quite as old as I am. Some of them even wear comprssion leg stockings like they are proud of this. If it’s below freezing and I have to shovel my driveway I bundle up but for trips to work I wear my winter jacket, but never shorts.
During the 1950s I lived in North Vancouver, Canada. Two of my younger friends reported seeing a bear in the forest. Our parents believed that all bears had been killed off. Even an older brother said that my two friends had just seen a big black dog (wandering in the forest alone? How ignorant!) Gasoline Alley was written in a different time when animals such as bears seemed to have been seen at threats and were killed.
Now-a-days, as I have read, bears that wander from the forest to residential areas in North Vancouver can be scared back to the forest by yelling with aggressive appearing actions. The death of Bear in this series is a very great tragedy. A black cat of mine some years ago was named “Bear” and I even have a large cat with big paws named “Bearpaw”.
This current series seems tp go back to the 1940s. I was born in 1947 and so all Li’l Abner comics I read were after about 1955. My guess is that there no young people interested in comics so old and that there are few people people much before 1940 who know how to contact the internet. In my past young days I recall that the Li’l Abner comic strip was often difficult to read and not very humorous. My brother, born in 1952 may have been more interested in Li’l Abner and I recall he pronounced this as “Lile Abner”. He was about 8 years old then.
The agent might be highly ignorant but in my experience from 20 years ago an agent showed me so many houses that I forgot about one house I really liked. I bought the one I didn’t like, so here I am in a bungalow 20 years later instead of the two story house with the sagged foundation that could have been fixed. The agent has been out of the real estate business for some years, possibly because he sensed what has been going on in this comic strip.
“NAFTA” was started before 1988 between Canada and the US. Reagan was president then. For Canadian workers to qualify for employment in the US the had to have university degrees in science or engineering (STEM).