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1. over 1 year ago on Mother Goose and Grimm

   The mugger was played by Sheldon Leonard, who also played the racetrack “tout” on both the radio and television show, as well as the “heavy” on several other movies. He played Nick the bartender on “It’s A Wonderful Life”. Leonard went on to produce many television shows including “The Danny Thomas Show”, “The Andy Griffith Show”, and “Gomer Pyle, USMC”, and was the namesake for Sheldon Cooper and Leonard Hofstadter on “The Big Bang Theory”.

2. over 1 year ago on Mother Goose and Grimm

   WELL!

3. over 1 year ago on Mother Goose and Grimm

   Well!

4. over 1 year ago on Mother Goose and Grimm

   You see, kids, there was this great performer back in the 20th Century by the name of Jack Benny, who was perpetually 39 years old.

5. almost 2 years ago on Broom Hilda

   Harlow Wilcox was the announcer. Bill Thompson did play Wimple, along with Droopy, Mr. Smee from Disney’s “Peter Pan”, the White Rabbit from Disney’s “Alice in Wonderland”, and many other cartoon characters.

   Wallace Wimple was the henpecked neighbor whose wife, “Sweetie Face”, was very abusive towards.

6. over 10 years ago on Calvin and Hobbes

   You need to hold the salmon; weigh it. Inspect it closely. Cut into it. Take a couple of bites. Take a few more bites. Then decide if it’s worth sacrificing Calvin. Claim you weren’t satisfied with the salmon. You get free salmon, and Calvin lives.

7. over 10 years ago on [Deleted]

   Actually, cable did exist back in the 1980s. There weren’t as many channels available as there are now, and some either had original programming or syndicated programs. However, most networks didn’t run current programs in syndication; it was mostly the more older or “classic” programs, those that have long ago ended one way or another. You would have been more likely to see a rerun of “Three’s Company” than “Roseanne” on one of those cable channels.

   Now, cable wasn’t as widely available back then as it is now, and it was really a lot more expensive. And if you added the premium channels (HBO, Cinemax, Showtime, Disney), you were in for a world of financial hurt. And yes, Virginia, the Disney Channel used to be part of the Premium package. I can still remember them doing preview weekends like HBO and Cinemax tend to do, often airing mainly classic Disney cartoons, shows (like “Mickey Mouse Club”) and movies to sucker you into calling the local cable company to add Disney to your lineup.

   Also, there were VCRs, which were used to record programming. Early VCRs were a lot more painful to set to record than later models, and compared to DVR systems of today. When on-screen menus first came around on VCRs in the early 1990s, there was a huge cry of relief. Early VCRs didn’t have on-screen menus, so those were a lot harder to set. Also, you had to make sure you had a recordable tape in the VCR, and it wasn’t something you wanted to keep.

   Of course, Calvin’s parents being who they are, especially Dad, I highly doubt they had cable or a VCR at the time this strip originally ran.

8. almost 11 years ago on Calvin and Hobbes

   I clearly see a career as a defense attorney for Calvin. Or a Senator.

9. over 11 years ago on Calvin and Hobbes

   I think this is where Calvin is like Sheldon Cooper: Can’t detect sarcasm.

10. over 11 years ago on Calvin and Hobbes

    Was more than likely a wasp, and I know that’s probably a honey bee, I kept thinking it was more of a yellow jacket. Those little buggers are more related to wasps than bees, and they can sting.

    I’d been “harpooned” once by a wasp. I was under the back deck, getting my bicycle (it was high enough off the ground I could just bend down to get up under there) and I didn’t see the wasp’s nest under construction right overhead. Next thing I know there’s this sharp stinging in my left shoulder, and I run inside. My dad grabs the spray and kills the wasp, then applies some ointment for the stinging. We had been cleaning up my great-granddad’s old farm house, and he had an old double-wide in the back for storage. Wasps had taken up residence, and my dad, who was doing most of the cleaning, had been stung a few times. After getting the spray and ointment, he bought a few bug bombs and bombed the ever-lovin’ blank out of that trailer. We used it as a makeshift “barn” when we moved into the old farmhouse and had a few horses.