Recent Comments

1. about 21 hours ago on Working Daze

   My first “real” job was in a paper cup factory. For Thanksgiving and for Christmas each, we got a small turkey, and irregular (leaky/misprint, etc) paper cups.

2. 3 days ago on For Better or For Worse

   The Eastern Orthodox (I’m familiar with Ukrainian) celebrated Christmas on 6 Jan. each year. I always had 2 Christmases when we would have “regular” Christmas on 25m Dec., and Ukr. Christmas on 6 Jan, when we visited the grandparents, aunts & uncles, etc.

3. 3 days ago on For Better or For Worse

   Yes, but if there was any occasion when the brakes were slammed, the driver’s right arm automatically came out to stop the forward momentum of the child in the passenger seat.

4. 4 days ago on Arlo and Janis

   I have taken some hankies that my mom embroidered as a child, and that I embroidered as a chlld, and mounted & framed them, with info on the back of the frame as to who & when they were embroidered.

5. 5 days ago on For Better or For Worse

   My brother had to have his wisdoms removed before the USAF would let him join. I guess they didn’t want to have the expense or other issues if they had to be removed after he became a helo pilot.

6. 6 days ago on Ripley's Believe It or Not

   Spell check would not have caught “wife”. Grammar check would.

7. 6 days ago on Drabble

   I grew up eating Claxton fruitcakes. My Ukrainian cookbook has 12 or 13 fruitcake recipes in it. When I was a young newly-wed, I (before I ever heard that not everyone likes fruitcakes), I made those recipes for family for CHRISTmas gifts. No one ever told me they didn’t like them. so either I was lucky in that a liking for fruitcake runs in my family, or they were thrown out. The fruitcakes, not the family.

8. 9 days ago on Working Daze

   I can’t tell if there’s one in the upper right limb of the tree?

9. 9 days ago on Pickles

   What are those lines (spikes?) on their backs supposed to be?

10. 9 days ago on Peanuts

    “For your own good” is probably the worst thing you can say to anyone!