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   margueritem said, about 4 years ago

   Too close to the truth…
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   Baslim the begger said, about 4 years ago

   Those were the days, my friend! We thought they’d never end!
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   Greeneyed Texan said, about 4 years ago

   Computers may seem to have it all but there is nothing like taking the newspaper funnies into the bathroom with you to do your business. I miss that.
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   Br'er Jonathan said, about 4 years ago

   Is the rare antiquity the comics page or that kids are reading?
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   pschearer said, about 4 years ago

   I remember in the 1950s and ’60s when Sunday comics took up to a half-page per strip, with a full page for Prince Valiant.

   This makes it all the more painful that the Philadelphia Inquirer recently dropped its separate Sunday comics section by shrinking it into the back pages of the tabloid-sized TV listing section. Sad.
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   Carmy said, about 4 years ago

   I just became a first time subscriber to our city newspaper. They had lowered the rates to like half price. I even got a 10.00 gift for it too. I hope it lasts.
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   Simon_Jester said, about 4 years ago

   Even without all the newspapers going bust, the paperboy is a thing of the past.

   These days newspapers are delivered by adults in station-wagon and minivans…at least around here.
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   lohaces said, about 4 years ago

   baslim: We’d sing and dance forever and a day…
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   VermilionSparrow said, about 4 years ago

   Hm, I can’t actually type in the comment box, but I can cut and paste text into it. Weird.   Anyway, I was going to say that I turn 28 later this week, and, growing up in the ’80s watching old TV shows on cable, I always wanted to deliver the paper when I got old enough. However, in my lifetime, the paper has always been delivered by adults in cars. I remember reaching the age of 10 or 11 and finding out that you had to be 18 and have a driver’s license to deliver the paper and being seriously disappointed.
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    kfaatz925 said, about 4 years ago

    pschearer - the Philly Inquirer did that? How sad. I always loved their comic section back when I lived up there.

    Times they are a-changin’ - sometimes I have to wonder if it’s for the better.
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    bald 716 said, about 4 years ago

    something kids of today will not experience is using silly putty to make a color transfer of the comics
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    pookid54 said, about 4 years ago

    baslimthebegger & lohaces….

    We’d live the life we choose We’d fight and never lose For we were young and sure to have our way.
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    chromosome said, about 4 years ago

    Sitting here, reading these comics on my computer; thinking of how some adults have been trying to stretch their incomes by getting up at 3 in the morning to get in their vans to deliver papers…
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    The Knight Who Says EKKE Ekke ekke p!tang zoo boing (unintelligible muttering) said, about 4 years ago

    Jonathan Mayo says: Is the rare antiquity the comics page or that kids are reading?

    Oh! Oh! Just what I was thinking, Jon!
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    Doctor Toon said, about 4 years ago

    My boy had a paper route when hes was about 13. I remember getting up early with him and helping him wrap them. On Sundays I went with him to carry half because they were so big. Good times, I miss them.
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