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1. 1 day ago on Mutt & Jeff

   This is reminiscent of an episode of the the TV show ‘Make Room For Daddy’ in which Danny Thomas’ character is stopped in a small town for a traffic violation by the sheriff who also happened to be the justice of the peace. The man who played that role was a relatively unknown comedian at the time. The episode received so much response from viewers that Danny Thomas and his producer Sheldon Leonard decided to give the comedian his own self-titled show, ergo, ‘The Andy Griffith Show’.

   Ironically, Andy’s main claim to fame prior to becoming the lovable Sheriff Andy Taylor was as the despicable central character Larry “Lonesome” Rhodes in the movie ‘A Face In The Crowd’.

2. 1 day ago on Shoe

   Just in case some readers don’t get this, ‘Play Misty For Me’ was a movie starring Clint Eastwood as a radio DJ being stalked by a crazed listener portrayed chillingly by Jessica Walter.

   The song ‘Misty’ was written in 1954 by pianist Erroll Garner. It has a special place in my memory as the background music that accompanied the scrolling of current weather conditions of cities throughout the U.S. on the ‘Today’ TV program which was a fixture in our household as we were getting ready for school and work in the 1950’s.

3. 2 days ago on Red and Rover

   That’s really big air for a dog.

4. 2 days ago on Dog Eat Doug

   Along with the dirt, there will be fleas, ticks and redbugs as consequences for rolling in the grass.

5. 2 days ago on Glasbergen Cartoons

   It’s hard for young people to realize that, at one time, the telephone was a device to make and receive calls. Ours was a black box firmly attached to a wall in our kitchen. If you called someone and they were home, you knew they would answer. In a bizarre twist of irony, the idea behind the cell phone was that you could call people wherever they happened to be but that didn’t work out. On the contrary, nowadays NO ONE answers their phones. We have to talk to their voicemail assuming, that is, that their inbox is not full which is the most common scenario. So it has become, NOT a device to talk to people, but rather one to leave messages that no one will likely ever respond to because they are too wrapped up with their social media or some other mindless activity.

   Steve Jobs had good intentions in inventing the smart phone but, like Dr. Frankenstein, he didn’t adequately consider the potential negative consequences.

   And those old printed and bound phonebooks were invaluable to us back then. They were as much a part of our everyday life as the phone itself and it showed. By the time the new one was delivered, the old one was worn out. And it didn’t contain simply the phone numbers of most everyone in town [some rich folks had unlisted numbers] but also the yellow pages that were the lifeblood of business and an indispensable resource to us in locating and securing the products and/or services of all those businesses. As the TV commercials advised, we let our fingers do the walking.

   In some respects, we’ve come a long ways BACKWARDS. Yes, all that information is out there on the interweb but finding it can be a real challenge while exposing us to all sorts of potential evildoers who would like to separate us from our hard earned money and are quite adept at doing so.

   So the black phone on the wall and the phone book nearby are obsolete….. damnit!

6. 2 days ago on Strange Brew

   Aha! Now I get it. Thank you.

7. 3 days ago on Strange Brew

   So this is supposed to be a plug for some soft drink product???

8. 8 days ago on Back to B.C.

   Who knew Charlie Brown had been around for so long?

9. 9 days ago on Dark Side of the Horse

   Marketing it as ‘Instant’ was inaccurate but ‘Quicker And Easier Than Brewed’ would not have been as effective in the ads.

10. 9 days ago on Ziggy

    …. you dirty crook.