It’s good to know that Mrs. Baird is not sitting alone in her nursing home room. A woman in my temple congregation recently returned home after yet another operation. Her only living relatives are in another state, and she now needs someone to help with daily chores. I wish I could, but have to work. I suspect that she needs company as much as help with housecleaning, because she will not be able to get out much. There are fewer and fewer people available to visit the ailing and elderly now…
I’m going back to the early strips and catching up, but I ran into a problem today. In the strips for September, 1979 (13, 18-21), there is a baby. If Elizabeth wasn’t born until 1981, who is the baby?
Okay, now I’m really confused. I read the strip for September 24, 1979, and there are three children present. I thought these characters aged in real time, like in Gasoline Alley. Michael was supposedly born in 1976, Elizabeth in 1981, and April in 1991. What gives?
Bingo games ARE serious business comicsssfan where I come from.My wife went to a bingo at a seniors centre this summer,and when she went to sit down the lady opposite her said “you can’t sit there”! So she took the chair next to it and the lady said that one is ok.No explanation was given,no one sat in the chair that night.And most of the players had good luck tokens like rabbits feet and funny little ornaments.When my wife was too slow to play the 8 cards she purchased,the old man next to her (playing 24 cards) jumped in with his dabbler to bail her out.
Bingo is supposedly a game of skill, therefore, it’s not gambling…technically….. in most states. When I was a kid, the State of Michigan didn’t even allow “church bingo” so my Catholic cousin went to Indiana every week to play bingo. I think church bingo is not as prevalent as it once was in places that have casinos run by Native American communities. Where I live now (still Michigan) 35 years ago each of the 5 or 6 area Catholic churches, a couple labor unions, and both major political parties ran weekly bingo games. Since the local casino started bingo about 20 years, the all the other bingo games have gone away.
Templo S.U.D. over 7 years ago
of course… bingo!
Argythree over 7 years ago
It’s good to know that Mrs. Baird is not sitting alone in her nursing home room. A woman in my temple congregation recently returned home after yet another operation. Her only living relatives are in another state, and she now needs someone to help with daily chores. I wish I could, but have to work. I suspect that she needs company as much as help with housecleaning, because she will not be able to get out much. There are fewer and fewer people available to visit the ailing and elderly now…
hcarpenter1 over 7 years ago
many people, such as my self, have little or no family left or around to help or visit them.
davidf42 over 7 years ago
I’m going back to the early strips and catching up, but I ran into a problem today. In the strips for September, 1979 (13, 18-21), there is a baby. If Elizabeth wasn’t born until 1981, who is the baby?
davidf42 over 7 years ago
Okay, now I’m really confused. I read the strip for September 24, 1979, and there are three children present. I thought these characters aged in real time, like in Gasoline Alley. Michael was supposedly born in 1976, Elizabeth in 1981, and April in 1991. What gives?
Linguist over 7 years ago
Airplane full of passengers is hurtling out of control. One of the passengers crys :" We’re going to crash. Quick, someone do something Catholic ! "
A nun in the back of the plane shouts: "BINGO ! "
hippogriff over 7 years ago
comicsssfanThe only one in my town does. They built a brick “activity center” that is bigger than their frame church.
Alphaomega over 7 years ago
Bingo games ARE serious business comicsssfan where I come from.My wife went to a bingo at a seniors centre this summer,and when she went to sit down the lady opposite her said “you can’t sit there”! So she took the chair next to it and the lady said that one is ok.No explanation was given,no one sat in the chair that night.And most of the players had good luck tokens like rabbits feet and funny little ornaments.When my wife was too slow to play the 8 cards she purchased,the old man next to her (playing 24 cards) jumped in with his dabbler to bail her out.
I Quit over 7 years ago
How much vigorish does the church take to run a gambling, err, bingo enterprise?
Night-Gaunt49[Bozo is Boffo] over 7 years ago
Bingo, the only gambling that churches allow, and I wonder why. I don’t recall any caveats to no gambling.
Dewsolo over 7 years ago
Bingo is supposedly a game of skill, therefore, it’s not gambling…technically….. in most states. When I was a kid, the State of Michigan didn’t even allow “church bingo” so my Catholic cousin went to Indiana every week to play bingo. I think church bingo is not as prevalent as it once was in places that have casinos run by Native American communities. Where I live now (still Michigan) 35 years ago each of the 5 or 6 area Catholic churches, a couple labor unions, and both major political parties ran weekly bingo games. Since the local casino started bingo about 20 years, the all the other bingo games have gone away.