Nancy Classics by Ernie Bushmiller for October 06, 2018

Steamin’ tootsies!

What part of “no” don’t you understand?

Looks like an awesome idea for us folks who have perpetual cold feet.

Ah! Nancy is making…

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Hot dogs.

EEEEEEEYEAHHHHHHH!!!

If that’s a cure, I’ll take it!

Good thing Fritzi didn’t tell her to take a butt bath.

nice

Ah good old 50’s home remedies. My head is all stuffed, my nose is running, I’ve got a terrible cough and can hardly breathe. I know I’ll warm up my feet. D’uh.

Never try to argue logic with a kid.

Do people do hot foot baths anymore? I can’t imagine it does anything real, but it probably feels good.

The original hot foot.

I wish Go-Comics was still publishing the original date on the Nancy Classics. All of these “hard winter” strips make me wonder if they could have appeared originally in the wake of the winter of 1948-1949. During that year, a severe blizzard blanketed several western states – mostly Nebraska, Kansas, Wyoming and Colorado – and so much livestock perished that there were serious concerns that there would be a dangerous meat shortage in the United States. The Air Force participated in Operation Hay Lift – dropping hay to stranded herds of cattle, sheep, etc. They also rescued farmers with medical emergencies who were stranded in farmhouses without telephones, electricity, central heating, etc. Steady winds blew snow drifts up around the first floors of many 2-storied homes – so the only way for the residents to leave was through windows on the second story of their homes. Some snowdrifts completely covered telephone poles. They was a movie called Operation Hay Lift focused on that time period and is still occasionally aired on :Turner Classic Movies. The first blizzards began as early as November, 1948 – but the majority of blizzards took place during the last couple of weeks in December and the first couple of weeks in January.

With today’s knowledge of epidemiology Nancy’s therapy would work about as well as Fritzi’s

If a hot foot bath cures a cold, I’m all for it. I seriously doubt it.

Pouring steaming water into her boots would have scalded her feet.