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Streets and San

It was never one of the top ten wishes of my life, but as a boy I kind of wondered whether I wouldn’t like to drive the street sweeper. This was a tanklike one-person vehicle with a spinning brush underneath, which went along the street sweeping the dust so that…well, I don’t know what,Continue reading “Streets and San”

Country Matters

Ah, Monday: the day when I fill your cup with jokes you can use at work through the week. Telling really old jokes is a way to impress your co-workers. Use one of these, and the first thought that will strike your listener is “Wow! I’m listening to a real historian!” Take theContinue reading “Country Matters”

Promoting Your Lunch Special

Now, as we have had occasion to mention, this is NOT a food blog. This is a blog wherein I discuss cultural matters, usually involving some of the postcards I have for sale (which none of you have rushed to buy yet. I know I have not yet optimized your blog-reading experience by makingContinue reading “Promoting Your Lunch Special”

Doctor, Doctor II

I ordinarily wouldn’t give you two joke quizzes in a row (knowing you need to rest up from the excitement of the usual Monday installment) but I am trying to post a quick blog for Wednesday, as I will be busy having what I am told is extremely minor surgery. (Yeah, if they wereContinue reading “Doctor, Doctor II”

Doctor, Doctor

Well, here it is Monday again, and time for another installment from my quizbook on old jokes. I have finally reached the Psychology chapter, in which I suggested, all those years ago, that someone should just do a whole book of the “Doc! My wife thinks she’s a…..) jokes. I assume someone has doneContinue reading “Doctor, Doctor”

No Place for Duckies

I had some thoughts about considering the role of pie un postcards of yore and easing into a discussion of my mother’s pie recipes. But pies serve only one real purpose in postcards (they are made to be stolen) and I must remind you that this is NOT a food blog. (The articles onContinue reading “No Place for Duckies”

More side issues

A few years ago, I wasted considerable time trying to track down my mother’s recipe for macaroni and cheese. This was not because I do not know the recipe. I gave the recipe memorized, and for those of you who are interested in such things, I will discuss it farther along. I just wantedContinue reading “More side issues”

On With the Dough

It is Monday again, luckless mortals, and time to examine the world of really old jokes as I wrote them out in the last century Today’s excerpt from that book is about money, and what people do with it. I am not one to salute the wisdom of my own past self, whom IContinue reading “On With the Dough”

Side Issue

I had no idea frying potatoes was such a contentious proposition. Take your basic fried potato. Well, no, don’t. There IS no basic fried potato. To some people a fried potato is a bulky object, made up of a quarter of the potato, while other people snub these in favor of thinner slicing. Continue reading “Side Issue”

Laugh In Peace

If you cast your mind back to last Friday’s column (I know: you worked so hard to forget it, but be brave; this will be over soon) you will recall my hunt through my inventory of elderly postcards in quest of Halloween-related images. This was very nearly fruitless, but on the way, I did notieContinue reading “Laugh In Peace”