Sherman's Lagoon by Jim Toomey for February 11, 2024

By strict definition, I am a Gen-X; while my brother who is two years older, is a Boomer. Who am I to argue.

I am the oldest of seven kids. The first five are all boomers.

I’m a Boomer.

Once again the whole of life is summed up in the cartoons, much like Shakespeare

Hawthorne might be the fresh one…if eaten!!

Something tells me those kids didn’t believe Sherman in the slightest about being good at soccer.

Well, Sherman’s Lagoon started in 1991, so that would make him millennial or generation Y, allso known as digital native. But he was already married by the first step, so depending on the age in which sharks get married in cartoon land, he’s probably Gen X… or maybe Gen S (for “shark”).

I was born at the boomer gen x cusp so I’m a boomer…

I thought he was a Stone-Ager.

Gen X best Gen.

Whiny, entitled boomers to the left of me, whiny, entitled millennials to the right.

Two generations, two hands, two birds flipped, one in each direction.

“And, just like that, there was no more youth soccer team – all of the players had been eaten.”

What about us pre-boomers?

I am a “war baby”, born while WWII was still going on. They forget about us. We were the protesters who they have misnamed the “silent generation”. Hahaha! Yeah, I’ve even been out protesting some and supporting different causes lately.

I want to see Sherman—or any of them, actually—kick.