Peanuts Begins by Charles Schulz for April 20, 2020

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    awgiedawgie Premium Member over 4 years ago

    I’ve got three pairs in a plastic tote out in the barn. I haven’t worn them in years. They’re still like new.

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    Templo S.U.D.  over 4 years ago

    amusing

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    Major Matt Mason Premium Member over 4 years ago

    (incredibly filthy joke removed in the interests of good taste)

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    Algolei I  over 4 years ago

    When I was a kid, I got hand-me-downs from my two older brothers and two older sisters. The rubber boots had bicycle tire patches on them.

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    iggyman  over 4 years ago

    As a kid we had them, I have not even seen a pair in ages!

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    jimmjonzz Premium Member over 4 years ago

    Alternately called galoshes… to avoid unfortunate misunderstandings. As a kid on the Mississippi Gulf Coast, I never heard them called anything but galoshes.

    In much of the UK, “rubber” once meant (does it still?) “eraser,” as in the item used to remove pencil marks. Ted Koppel’s family emigrated from the UK to the USA when he was an elementary school kid. The first time (and last time) he asked classmates if anyone had a rubber he could borrow… well, hilarity ensued.

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    dlkrueger33  over 4 years ago

    We had “rubbers” as kids. Red ones that you would pull over your shoes. But I don’t even remember wearing them once we began to go to school. It was just something else to lose. We stood at the bus stop in rain slickers and/or with an umbrella and hoped for the best. Here in Florida, our rain comes down fast and furiously….but stops in 10 minutes. People rarely even use umbrellas. After all, the rain is warm and welcomed.

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    Troglodyte  over 4 years ago

    I wouldn’t want to be in CB’s shoes! :D

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    txmystic  over 4 years ago

    check out C.B. in the Mack. Stylin’.

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    julianhoward Premium Member over 4 years ago

    That visual of Charlie Brown in the 2nd panel may be my favorite of all time. What a classy looking guy!

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    sdjamieson Premium Member over 4 years ago

    So Charlie Brown used to dress like Dick Tracy?

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    donwestonmysteries  over 4 years ago

    I remember as a young parent putting cardboard inside my tennis shoes when holes wore through. I cut them in the shape of the insole and inserted them. Who could afford new shoes with mouths to feed?

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    paullp Premium Member over 4 years ago

    All the comments on the double entendre use of “rubbers” remind me of something that occurred several years ago. My son saw a reference on Facebook to a 1951 Batman comic, in which the Joker messes up one of his crimes, and the newspapers make fun of his boner. So he decides to get Batman to commit an even bigger boner. My son thought the whole thing was hilarious, for obvious reasons. Actually, I did too, but I put on my serious and wise dad hat and explained to him that "boner” is just a synonym for “mistake.”

    https://www.dialbforblog.com/archives/136/

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    JD'Huntsville'AL  over 4 years ago

    From eigozai.com:

    The expression “to pull a boner” comes from the old American minstrel shows. There was a man in these shows who was called Mr. Bones because he carried two small sticks of bone that he used as an instrument. He was asked questions by one of the other men in the show, just to get stupid but funny answers. This became known as “pulling boners.” But in time, the expression, “to pull a boner,” meant something more than getting an answer to make you laugh. It meant a bad blunder a mistake that was costly. And a man who pulled such boners was often described as a “bonehead.”

    Example: https://youtu.be/LrEfB35a5vU?t=60

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    tinstar  over 4 years ago

    Huh… when I was Charlie’s age, I didn’t have such a fancy rain outfit… I had the bright yellow, long “slicker,” and the “hood-type” rain hat with the visor… I looked like a demented duck, walking upright!

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    g.iangoodson  over 4 years ago

    Nice one. Good catch.

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    g.iangoodson  over 4 years ago

    Wellies, as in “Wellington Boots”.

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