I remember the Katzenjammer Kids from the comics in the ‘50s! And somewhere sometime I saw Smokey Stover, but never more than one or two examples. Little Nemo, though was from around 1900, and I don’t think it got rerun like modern comics.
Doggone substitute teachers! A classmate of mine was known as Craig, until an oh-so-precise substitute called him out (so to speak) as Timothy Craig__. He had a strong enough personality to overcome the temporary setback.
I think Darby has been studying Pearls Before Swine to set up strange& silly wordplay! Well done, sir. And “a bar too low to limbo under” is proof of your own high-quality writing.
I grew up with Bosco — it was our chocolate milk of choice in the ‘50s. I didn’t even know that Hershey made a similar (inferior) product until I was 10.
I worked for a tech startup in 2000, 8 or 10 people in a double garage sized space. All our furniture was old and random. But we did create actual physical products and sold them.
I bet Newton and Einstein both dealt with the issue of lunch.