One Big Happy by Rick Detorie for February 15, 2024

Do the kids even know what phone books are?

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1. Only play the one hand in five that’s particularly strong.

2. Never just match a rival’s bid; either raise or fold.

@Asharah: Since the copywrite date shows this was drawn in 2003, I would say there’s a good chance they know what a phone book is. Also, Aunt Dolly told them where they are last time she was over for a visit.

Growing up in a small town, the local phone book wouldn’t have been sufficient. You would have used catalogs – Sears, JCPenney, and Montgomery Wards. Without phone books or catalogs, what would you use nowadays?

Phone books don’t exist anymore. Ours when I was a kid was pretty thick since it was combined with the Yellow Pages. I guess now parents have to buy an actual booster seat.

The other alternative is the Sears, Roebuck catalog. We had to use it because our town wasn’t big enough to produce a phone book more than 1/2’ in thickness.

“Right next to the rotary phone!”

The phone books are kept in the ’90s…..

Do kids even know what a book is?

Our small town phone book, even in the heyday of land lines, was only about half an inch thick, not much of a booster.

We used to have bumbo seats for the grandkids, until they got to big to sit in them. I made booster blocks for them until they got big enough to sit at the big table. (no kids table here, but we did eventually have a grandparents table after the 16th grand,greatgrandkid)