Boy: If I'm going to pick and choose my happy era, I should be able to pick and choose my aquatic life. Frazz: They had leeches then. Norman Rockwell just didn't paint them.
they are nostalgic because they were kids. kids’ views are totally different than adults’ views. those same people who loved those times can’t live without their smartphones, their internet, and email and streaming music. and, many of us can’t live without air conditioning, especially in our cars.
Night-gaunt, yeah we treated our veterans well back then…And selective memory is a factor…They’ve done research that shows that parents tend to remember the blessed moments of their children and tend to forget bad times..And on top of that the bad things sometimes seem just like funny stories after a few years…..Even though they were anguishing at the time….
Varnes: I have personally known vets from every war since WW-I and not a one has had proper PTSD treatment. Indeed, until recently, few have had any treatment at all beyond a kitchen drawer half full of psychotropic pills in daily quantities that I can’t see how there is room for food.
Some of the unpleasantness (disease, starvation) killed the people who went through it, and was therefore not as well remembered among those who didn’t.
Theodore Sturgeon, a great science fiction writer, said in a speech accepting an award that 90% of science fiction was s**t. In the gasp of silence that followed, he continued that 90% of everything was s**t, and by a few years later we only remember the better half, and by 10 or 15 years later we only remember the top 10%. That’s why each generation’s nostalgia is so wonderful.
The Life I Draw Upon over 10 years ago
If Norman Rockwell was alive today, I ponder what he would paint.
trollope'sreader over 10 years ago
It would continue to be the depiction of an idealized world that never existed.
chuckconly over 10 years ago
Parts of Norman Rockwells world DID exist! IN RURAL America!
garcoa over 10 years ago
I didn’t like that, it was scary. But I’m going to do it again, and again, and again.
Comic Minister Premium Member over 10 years ago
Impressive trick little girl!
drbeth over 10 years ago
She jumped in the water and got covered by bloodsucking leeches. Harmless, but scary as hell.
SapphireSkies Premium Member over 10 years ago
Aw, and here I thought the 1950s were the Golden Age because I was born then….
vwdualnomand over 10 years ago
they are nostalgic because they were kids. kids’ views are totally different than adults’ views. those same people who loved those times can’t live without their smartphones, their internet, and email and streaming music. and, many of us can’t live without air conditioning, especially in our cars.
Varnes over 10 years ago
Night-gaunt, yeah we treated our veterans well back then…And selective memory is a factor…They’ve done research that shows that parents tend to remember the blessed moments of their children and tend to forget bad times..And on top of that the bad things sometimes seem just like funny stories after a few years…..Even though they were anguishing at the time….
tlynnch over 10 years ago
What Norman Rockwell would paint today:http://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s—YPE-KYsf—/19a4eakgbjc9njpg.jpg
hippogriff over 10 years ago
Varnes: I have personally known vets from every war since WW-I and not a one has had proper PTSD treatment. Indeed, until recently, few have had any treatment at all beyond a kitchen drawer half full of psychotropic pills in daily quantities that I can’t see how there is room for food.
DutchUncle over 10 years ago
Some of the unpleasantness (disease, starvation) killed the people who went through it, and was therefore not as well remembered among those who didn’t.
Theodore Sturgeon, a great science fiction writer, said in a speech accepting an award that 90% of science fiction was s**t. In the gasp of silence that followed, he continued that 90% of everything was s**t, and by a few years later we only remember the better half, and by 10 or 15 years later we only remember the top 10%. That’s why each generation’s nostalgia is so wonderful.
writemom over 10 years ago
I already love this strip… it is now my hands down favorite! Frazz is wearing a Packers shirt!