Author / CIDU Bill
Loose Desks
Just wondering what other parents think of this…
Would you/did you “go ballistic”? It’s long been my opinion that comic strip parents (even more so than other comic strip characters) tend to go ballistic as default reaction.
(Spoiler: when my older son was just about Peter Fox’s age…)
Okay, how many people reading this today have even been inside an Automat?
(And no way in the world this was originally published as late as 1993)
April 6: This is what the site of Manhattan’s flagship Automat looks like today (well, yesterday, technically)
Probs
I don’t think there is or has ever been a teenage boy who, after hearing the vague “physical probs/problems” would feel the slightest inclination to ask follow-up questions.
Dot’s a mystery to me
You’d think it would be easy to come up with a good Beatles-related subject line, but it’s just not happening.
Okay, not quite Geezer material because, you know, the Beatles. And not quite synchronicity (Andréa sent them to me as “Synchronicity?”).
But while I see what Mr. Rubin was getting at in the first one, I’m not really clear what the joke is. And the Dogs of C-Kennel has me completely stumped.
Seems to me there’s just a simple play on words that I’m missing here…
Quick
2002 called (as hopefully you’d heard)
Just fyi, they finally pulled the plug on the ad campaign in 2011.
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