FoxTrot Classics by Bill Amend for June 13, 2023

the boys’ nature walk sure is something

Since my knee problems and subsequent leg issues, all of my nature walks are in MineCraft now.

They name streets for what they ripped out to build it.

Just one block over from where I live, there’s a street called “Red River Path”. You won’t see any river there, though. It’s underground now.

It actually got its name as the site of an outdoor interview with Brooke Shields. Somwhere along the line, the e got dropped.

To get to my daughter’s house, you cross Briar Path, then take Fox Chase, Pheasant Walk, and Elk Rush Drive. Cross Deer Run Circle and then turn onto her street. I haven’t seen a fox, pheasant, or elk over there, but they have plenty of deer!

Heh. I live in Florida. Near me are roads named ‘Forest Hill,’ ‘Summit,’ ‘Coral Springs,’ and, my personal favorite, ‘Gun Club.’ The area has no hills; the maximum elevations within 100 miles are overpasses on the Turnpike and the Interstates, plus Mount Trashmore, where the county dumps garbage. There isn’t a summit. There isn’t a forest anywhere near. There are no springs nearby. The Sheriff’s Office and the National Guard armory are on Gun Club, so there are lots of guns, but no club. (Unless you count the strip club literally across the street from the Sheriff’s Office. Biggest strip club in the county, too. Donald Trump’s golf course is behind the Sheriff’s Office, on Summit, so that doesn’t count either.)

Wow! Back when I sold shoes, we moved lots of mink oil. Hadn’t heard about it since.

For a couple of intelligent boys they sure are stupid. If it’s not in a book they’re clueless

What was that about trees and a tree museum? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=94bdMSCdw20

It seems that for much of the United States, at least in my 75 year lifetime, streets are often named for features that have been bulldozed away to make room for the streets.

I once went to Los Gatos in California expecting to see cats running around. Boy, was I disappointed.

Mink oil on shoes does something?

Suburbia— where humans level forests and then name the streets after them

Babbling brook has laryngitis…

For a brainy kid, Jason sure is dumb sometimes…