have a phenomenal memory. No, really the story jump made me suspicious. The Copyright between the last two panels is 2021. Lastly there is a GoComics app which allows searches by keywords. This was about the only A&J with WiFi, with no hyphen.
Had the reaction then – “ Remarkable resemblance. Several years ago the squirrel who shorted out our power at work adopted almost the same post mortem pose, except he was no longer upright.”
The story I heard was this was a bit of dialogue between song writers Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller. Not sure who had the opening line but the other shot your quote back. They wrote several more lines laced with the refrain “Yackety yak. Don’t talk back.” It lwas released on Atco Records and became a huge hit for the Coasters in 1958.
Candles are what we grew up depending on but today’s LED lanterns are amazingly bright.