by EditorM

… but nobody does anything about it

Reader Mike Pollock offers a “juxtaposition via T.A.R.D.I.S.” Perusing this Saturday Evening Post comics selection page, Mike thought the way the weather forecast lingo was handled in the two Stan Hunt panels here (from 1950 and 1955) was reflected in the very recent Zits below them.

“Small-craft warnings are being displayed from Cape Hatteras to Sandy Hook.”
Stan Hunt
September 30, 1950
“Try to think of it, dear, as simply a low-pressure system extending from The Great Lakes region into Ohio and eastward to the Atlantic States trapped between two areas to high pressure that…”
Stan Hunt
September 3, 1955

And with our editorial eyes opened to this idea, we were quick to note this Life on Earth:

2 Comments

  1. As Arlo once observed, thanks to the Weather Channel we now have the terms “green rain”, “yellow rain” and “red rain”.

  2. First one is actually older than I am!

    Robert is always annoyed at the weather reports. 

    1 – It is going to rain when he has rare plans to do something (lately he does not drive if it is raining – past year or so we have canceled our day trip to PA several times as it was to rain here or there.) And then it does not rain. 

    2 – Reports are unsure about rain or not rain.

    Our reenactment unit is having our annual first of the year & shakeout for the year event this coming Sunday. The unit “Commander” (President) cannot come so Robert as “Vice Commander” (VP) is in charge of the event. He has not been in charge of a daytime event since before Covid – though he as also the former Commander he was in charge of many of them in the past. 

    He is on pins and needles worrying about the event and if we have to decide if it should be canceled or not. In addition to the responsibility of same (maybe rain – don’t have the event and it is sunny and never hear the end of it or maybe rain- but probably not – and he goes ahead with the event and we all get soaked plus the muskets are a wet problem (can’t fire if powder wet and some fellows only come for “the band and the boom”). He can easily discuss the problem though with the “Paymaster General” (treasurer) – me. 

    In addition neither of us is a morning person. During the past 4 years – especially at the beginning of Covid – time did not really matter – if we woke up at 10 am and went to bed at 1 am woke up at noon -or 1 pm – and went to bed at 6 am it did not matter. So trying to get to back to a more normal schedule has not been easy. Plus dressing in period clothing takes longer than in modern clothing so need more lead time going out than normal and need to be there to set up for the event and in charge of same means being there even earlier. 

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