Pluggers by Rick McKee for December 16, 2024

And when it is really cold, & windy, with thermals underneath!

Yep. We marched to the store one winter. Thermals, parkas, boots, heavy gloves and poles. On return there was a river in front of the house. Somebody decided to drive, lost it and knocked off a hydrant.

I just figured out why some people make a comment to a cartoon when that comment has already showed up well above theirs in the comment string. They’re probably pluggers, and realize that they have to make their comment right away or they’ll forget it. Then they can go back and maybe read the comments that have been added already.

Me just figure out why some peoples making comment to a comics when that comment has already showing up well above thems in the comment streeng. Thems probably pluggers, and realising that thems has to makes thems comment right away or thems forgetting it. Then thems can going back and maybe reading the comments that has added already.

A Plugger has enough sense to wear gloves. It’s the teens that pull their sleeves down over their hands when they get cold. Pluggers also wear a jacket or coat when the temperatures drop – teens not so much

I’m still wearin’ my Ryan Seacrest brand leather gloves.

Are most Pluggers senile or just dumb? Many of these cartoons are a bit insulting. I’m 75, so I should qualify as a Plugger, but I do have enough sense to wear gloves when it’s cold.

From today’s Comics Curmudgeon:

“Pluggers don’t wear gloves outside in Minnesota in December” is I think the point where we start doing wellness checks on the pluggers in our lives. Don’t wait until they end up in the hospital getting their fingers amputated!

I wish I could still do that. I wear gloves or mittens and usually need to put hand warmers in them or my hands get so cold they ache

C’mon Ramona, you can’t get through a Minnesota winter without mitts.

What about a coat ? If ya need gloves you need a coat ;-)

The idea of pulling your sleeves down to keep your hands warm is centuries old. The big cuffs on military greatcoats were there for that very reason. It is way beyond difficult to fire a musket with gloves on your hands and by the time you get your gloves off, you might be shot dead already.

He needs a hat. I suggest one of those flannel winter hats.