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1. about 13 hours ago on Peanuts Begins

   You probably already know this, but “sticky wicket” is a term from cricket, not croquet.

2. about 14 hours ago on Herman

   My PA licence in the late 70s still had no photo.

3. 5 days ago on Gasoline Alley

   Perhaps, but it would be very unusual for tracks to be removed that quickly and leave no trace. Removal is an expensive process. In my experience, tracks are usually abandoned in place, at least for some time, and not removed until the right-of-way expires and adjacent property owners move onto the land. Near Orbisonia, PA, you can still see tracks along US 522 and elsewhere from the “East Broad Top Railroad” that were abandoned in 1954.

4. 6 days ago on Gasoline Alley

   I found the arc I was thinking of. It ran in November and December of 2019. The story was about a Christmas excursion train for the kids. There are not too many frames that show the train and the diner, but the 12-04 and Sunday strip (12-08) show the tracks running right by the diner. There is another strip (12/23) showing the train pulling away. In all three strips, it does look like the diner is out in the sticks.

5. 6 days ago on Gasoline Alley

   My thought, too. It wasn’t that many years ago when there was an arc about a steam train running on track near the diner. Of course, these old railroad car diners can be moved, but who would move a business away from the customers?

6. 7 days ago on Gasoline Alley

   Are you thinking of the line from Firesign theatre’s “Waiting for the Electrician?” “He says he can shout, don’t hear you.”

7. 13 days ago on Peanuts Begins

   There’s a reference to the first Peanuts strip today on Lio.

8. 13 days ago on Pickles

   My wife says, “if something’s out of whack, give it a whack.”

9. 19 days ago on Red and Rover

   When I first looked at this strip, I thought Red had kicked Rover outside. When I read your comment, I looked back to see the door and realized my error.

10. 20 days ago on Peanuts Begins

    The worst time-saver tool I came across was toward the end of the 50s. It was a hand-pushed grass rake-collector owned by someone whose yard we mowed. It was a substantial piece of equipment and couldn’t have been cheap. About 3 feet wide with a ground drive rotating brush that lifted the grass into the catch bag, it was virtually impossible to move by hand. If the grass were the least bit wet, it clogged. And even with perfectly dry grass, it was so much harder than the normal option of using a rake. The owners had never used it and neither did we.