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   Paul Smith said, 4 months ago

   Maybe she should blog and tweet about it.
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   Randy_B said, 4 months ago

   Ice caps? Not for much longer…
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   Heidi Tentee said, 4 months ago

   Actually, they were worried about global cooling in the 60’s.
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   JackButler said, 4 months ago

   @Heidi Tentee

   Actually, I am one of they and we were not worried about Global Cooling, we were worried about Nuclear Armageddon, so yeah, things are much better now.
   I would like to place a request for Jane and Starr to hop in the Magic Bus and go into the future, so they can both experience the joy of having been completely off base in their fears.
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   Fairportfan2 said, 4 months ago

   Optimism? In children of the Sixties?
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   My 14th birthday was 22 October 1962. (If that doesn’t ring a bell, check out “The Missiles of October”.)
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   I never figured to see thirty, much less sixty-four.
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   mvw said, 4 months ago

   @Fairportfan2

   I was born 11/11/1960 by the end of the decade all I hoped for was no more funerals for cousins and friends of my oldest brother who were sent to Vietnam.
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   pcolli said, 4 months ago

   I was born in 1953 and have always known that the human race will survive. There may be less of us but we’ll be here for a long while yet. There’s no religion involved.
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   Night-Gaunt49 said, 4 months ago

   Yes the ice caps are still there but 50% of the N. Pole has disappeared in 50 years.
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   The phones aren’t really ‘smart’ but they are more intelligent than they use to be. Voice recognition is working well now.
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   WF11 said, 4 months ago

   I’ve been enjoying Jane’s World in color!
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    runedune said, 4 months ago

    I’m just hoping that Starr will end up being a “straight” female character in this strip. Finally.
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    tundrasea said, 4 months ago

    @JackButler

    I am one of “they” too — but, my memory is still clear. Yes, the big worry was about nuclear war — but, global cooling was just starting to “heat up” as an issue. By the mid 1970’s, the “Coming Ice Age” was big in the popular media, and in academic circles. There were even proposals for geo-engineering solutions — spreading soot over the polar ice caps, for instance.
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    banjoaah said, 4 months ago

    @runedune

    I agree rundune. Ethan must be really lonely.
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    sal9100 said, 4 months ago

    For all of you complaining there are no “straight” women in this comic, there are plenty others out there to choose from… maybe not written by the fabulous Paige but they’re there. Let us have this one comic where there are mostly lesbians or bisexuals please without constant complaining. Been reading this strip for years and it’s my favorite! Thanks Paige!
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    Night-Gaunt49 said, 4 months ago

    I like the idea that straight men and women are scarce in this comic. A nice change of pace.
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    Clark Kent said, 4 months ago

    I was born 11 Feb 1946. I remember phones without dials, radio soap operas, riding on commuter trains in/out of Chicago pulled by steam locomotives, cars with straight 8 engines, 78rpm records then lp’s and 45’s, big TV’s with small black and white pictures, 4 TV channels with CBS, NBC, ABC and DuMont, Romper Room and Captain Kangaroo and local Chicago kid’s programming including Bozo’s Circus, the first McDonalds in nearby Des Plaines Illinois (it’s still there), getting a phone with a rotary dial in preparation for cutover to a new central office with a #5 crossbar switching system in 1952, the beginning of rock and roll, sudden announcements on TV when Ike had a heart attack, the despicable witch hunts by nixon and mccarthy.
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