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I look back at those “remember when” gift items that you can buy at Bob Evans and some other places, that tells you what happened and how much things cost when you were born…. and I think about how over time costs for everything just crept on up while the world goes around… in my “salad days”, gas was just under or around 60 cents, apartments were only a couple hundred bucks for a decent one, and grocrery prices covered many times what it would cost today… I remember seeing Tastykake baked pies/cakes that can go in a lunchbox @ around a quarter, then by the nineties, went up to fifty, then 75, now the same size costs over a dollar! and the ingredients sure changed, maybe to mostly cut costs for them…. same with just about everything… sigh….
BLAME THE I.R.S., AND EVERYONE ELSE IN PUBLIC OFFICE!!!!! THEY ARE THE ONES SPENDING YOUR HARD EARNED TAX DOLLARS FRIVILOUSLY TO PAY OFF THE NATIONAL DEBT!!!!!!
The local theater was .09c for kids when I was a kid. My grandmother would give me a quarter. Popcorn was a dime, a box of gum drops was a nickel, and I always came home with a penny!
There’s an old saying that ‘Guys don’t make passes at chicks who wear glasses’. I think Fritzi proves that saying is totally bunk, cause even wearing glasses, she’s just too hot to pass up!
I LOVED Sluggo’s saga for sure. But…the brevity of today’s strip is a welcome relief. and for sure…it stirs up just as much nostalgia and deep thought!!
Think we’ve had bad inflation?When I was in Turkey in 1964, exchange rate was 9 lira per US$.If I’d taken $100 US, converted to Lira, put in savings at 6% compound interest, and gone back in 2004, I would have had 3/4 of 1c!
You know what? I AM gonna think of Fritzi’s hand gesture as a shout out of “I Love You” in ASL to all of us readers from Guy… intentional or not, thanks, Guy! We do appreciate you, too!
If they used it for something worthwhile, I wouldn’t mind so much. Borrowing $ from China then sending them aid. Huh? Sending Pakistan $. Huh? Giving illegals benefits. Huh? $ to green companies going bankrupt one after the other. Huh? Not stopping the fraud in the welfare & disability system. $ to find out why pigs stink. Almost a billion $ for empty bank accts that should be closed. Studies for why lesbians are more prone to drinking problems. Huh, huh, and huh. If you don’t want to pitch a hissy fit about stuff like that, then you are as big a fool as the pols think all of us are.
Re: Estrelita – I thought what she had to say was interesting – and it seemed to tie in with the observations by IamJayBluE . What, exactly, did you find so objectionable?
JayBluE almost 12 years ago
Money, time and energy….
TooOldToBeCool almost 12 years ago
“Hang on, help is on its way…”
JayBluE almost 12 years ago
I look back at those “remember when” gift items that you can buy at Bob Evans and some other places, that tells you what happened and how much things cost when you were born…. and I think about how over time costs for everything just crept on up while the world goes around… in my “salad days”, gas was just under or around 60 cents, apartments were only a couple hundred bucks for a decent one, and grocrery prices covered many times what it would cost today… I remember seeing Tastykake baked pies/cakes that can go in a lunchbox @ around a quarter, then by the nineties, went up to fifty, then 75, now the same size costs over a dollar! and the ingredients sure changed, maybe to mostly cut costs for them…. same with just about everything… sigh….
blunebottle almost 12 years ago
Funny…..I always seem to come to the same conclusion, Fritzi!
Gator007 almost 12 years ago
Honey, don’t we all.
yeahbutt almost 12 years ago
Fritzi’s speaking for all of us!
Potrzebie almost 12 years ago
What’s with the hand sign in panel one? No one types like that!
terek almost 12 years ago
BLAME THE I.R.S., AND EVERYONE ELSE IN PUBLIC OFFICE!!!!! THEY ARE THE ONES SPENDING YOUR HARD EARNED TAX DOLLARS FRIVILOUSLY TO PAY OFF THE NATIONAL DEBT!!!!!!
Dr Sheriff MB esq PhD DML almost 12 years ago
well…. at least yer not FLAT BUSTED….!!!!
alleyoops Premium Member almost 12 years ago
The local theater was .09c for kids when I was a kid. My grandmother would give me a quarter. Popcorn was a dime, a box of gum drops was a nickel, and I always came home with a penny!
alleyoops Premium Member almost 12 years ago
DON’T DO IT , FRITZI. Save yourself for me.
JayBluE almost 12 years ago
Now THAT’s an outing!
Don Fleming almost 12 years ago
There’s an old saying that ‘Guys don’t make passes at chicks who wear glasses’. I think Fritzi proves that saying is totally bunk, cause even wearing glasses, she’s just too hot to pass up!
Skylark almost 12 years ago
I LOVED Sluggo’s saga for sure. But…the brevity of today’s strip is a welcome relief. and for sure…it stirs up just as much nostalgia and deep thought!!
tuslog64 almost 12 years ago
Welcome to the club.
REDROCKER51 almost 12 years ago
@Estrelita..& Iam ….don’t go off on a rant or anything……….LOL
tuslog64 almost 12 years ago
Inflation -when you are broke-with your pockets full of money.
REDROCKER51 almost 12 years ago
imagine 20 years from now people will look back at 2013 and wonder why everything was so cheap?
tuslog64 almost 12 years ago
Think we’ve had bad inflation?When I was in Turkey in 1964, exchange rate was 9 lira per US$.If I’d taken $100 US, converted to Lira, put in savings at 6% compound interest, and gone back in 2004, I would have had 3/4 of 1c!
stanley hastings almost 12 years ago
Don’t we all!
beaver48612 almost 12 years ago
Wouldn’t take me all day to figure THAT out.
JayBluE almost 12 years ago
You know what? I AM gonna think of Fritzi’s hand gesture as a shout out of “I Love You” in ASL to all of us readers from Guy… intentional or not, thanks, Guy! We do appreciate you, too!
gocartmozart almost 12 years ago
If they used it for something worthwhile, I wouldn’t mind so much. Borrowing $ from China then sending them aid. Huh? Sending Pakistan $. Huh? Giving illegals benefits. Huh? $ to green companies going bankrupt one after the other. Huh? Not stopping the fraud in the welfare & disability system. $ to find out why pigs stink. Almost a billion $ for empty bank accts that should be closed. Studies for why lesbians are more prone to drinking problems. Huh, huh, and huh. If you don’t want to pitch a hissy fit about stuff like that, then you are as big a fool as the pols think all of us are.
katina.cooper almost 12 years ago
Marrying Phil would help. It would get a better tax deduction.
kaffekup almost 12 years ago
Wher’s calimaghazi? I’m sure he would give you anything you wanted, but you’ll have to pay a steep price.
LoisG Premium Member almost 12 years ago
Re: Estrelita – I thought what she had to say was interesting – and it seemed to tie in with the observations by IamJayBluE . What, exactly, did you find so objectionable?
JayBluE almost 12 years ago
Some comments prove the degeneration, irreverence and decadence that lurks in society in general, and on some threads…..