B.C. by Mastroianni and Hart for August 04, 2020

Back in BC days they knew what words really meant.

Remember the old school days of having to do Duck and Cover Drills??? I do. But I was a Dumb Little Kid who few liked to listen to. I was always confused by this Drill. What good is it to Duck and Cover when one whole… 8 foot (plus) tall window… was a wall in the classroom. Each classroom was like this! So if a blast went through the school… Everyone would be getting hurt very, very badly. Dumb Kid wanted to know about the reasoning behind all of this.

In college in late 1950s and early 1960s there were classroom signs to point out path to Civil Defense shelter. “In case of attack…”. Some wag wrote over, “In case of attack, study Russian.”

LOL! Got to love the English Language!

There was a sign on the Marine Parkway Bridge connecting Brooklyn and Rockaway. It read, “In case of air attack, drive off bridge.” I hope they meant to continue driving and NOT take a sharp right turn.

In some parts of the world Pig in a blanket is known as pig in kilts…..

I was in first grade during the Cuban Missile crisis. We actually didn’t go under our desks….we went out into the hallway and sat against an inside wall of the school and covered our heads with our hands. “Civil Defense Drills”, they were called. I really didn’t know exactly why we were doing this. They never explained. For me, at that age, that procedure was akin to a fire drill. Just took it all in stride. A distraction and break from the classroom lesson. In hindsight, if NYC were obliterated, we (in the NYC suburbs) would probably also be dead.

Okay, that there’s funny, I don’t care who you are. So now I’m sort of craving a duck sandwich. I have no idea where to get a duck sandwich. …huh.

So, duck tastes like pig? I thought it tasted more like chicken.

“Duck with a goose down duvet” sounds improper.

Then shouldn’t it be “down and out”?! :D

Was mainly to ease worries for kids and parents that they could recover from a nuclear bomb. Much like today, by doing certain things at schools kids and their parents and grandparents could survive the corona virus.

My wife and I argue about the meaning of “Pig in a Blanket”. I say it’s hot dogs wrapped in croissant roll dough. She says it’s more along the line of stuffed cabbage rolls. Who wins?

The duck and cover exercise wasn’t supposed to protect you inside the blast zone. For people further away it could protect you from flash burns coming through the windows and debris falling from the ceiling.

If that “lunatic” in North Korea ever pushes “his” red button, everything from Seattle to Baja will be toast. People won’t know what hit them, even without all the warnings that might come forth.

It’s like our POTUS brown-nosers who still think he would never tell a lie, or half truth, and stubbornly support everything he wants including the next election.

During those grade school days, I also enjoyed the sudden mass multiple dosages of goiter pills, and loved the strontium-ninety laced milk. Later, after earning science laced degrees, I enjoyed learning the folks in Las Vegas loved to watch the clouds from our nuclear tests.

Sounds like it might be tasty….except for the feathers.

In Vietnam, duck and cover worked.