tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19305198.post4016326612988264581..comments2024-03-27T03:19:11.216-04:00Comments on Assistant Village Idiot: Sunday FunniesAssistant Village Idiothttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01978011985085795099noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19305198.post-26018003498197152872018-06-17T20:49:13.688-04:002018-06-17T20:49:13.688-04:00My wife used to like to do that.My wife used to like to do that.Assistant Village Idiothttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01978011985085795099noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19305198.post-45491596650302752762018-06-17T18:22:38.438-04:002018-06-17T18:22:38.438-04:00With my own tiny hands I have been known to wrap a...With my own tiny hands I have been known to wrap a switchplate in matching wallpaper, though it's been a while.Texan99https://www.blogger.com/profile/10479561573903660086noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19305198.post-23196623167046956492018-06-12T15:03:58.103-04:002018-06-12T15:03:58.103-04:00I can't remember the last time I bought a Sund...I can't remember the last time I bought a Sunday paper.<br /><br />My parents told me that as a preschooler I liked having the comics read to me. Typical of that age group, I also wanted to have the same strip read repeatedly. <br /><br />As I liked the comic strip For Better or Worse, I ended up purchasing a number of FBOW collections.<br /><br />A number of my relatives didn't have electricity in their homes until the 1930s.<br /><br />Circa 1910, instead of installing electricity and indoor plumbing in his house, my great grandfather decided it was better- maybe even cheaper- to build a new house with indoor plumbing and wiring. Which he did.RichardJohnsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07490819511630683969noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19305198.post-16002512205206596632018-06-12T13:34:48.677-04:002018-06-12T13:34:48.677-04:00We had knob-and-tube wiring in the first house we ...We had knob-and-tube wiring in the first house we lived in 1978. The house had been built as a one-room cottage in 1906 and gradually added to. I don't know when it was wired. Assistant Village Idiothttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01978011985085795099noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19305198.post-48922345960983859782018-06-12T11:17:08.230-04:002018-06-12T11:17:08.230-04:00Newspaper?Newspaper?Dan Pattersonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18306436521768077821noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19305198.post-22866804541923372532018-06-12T10:14:11.219-04:002018-06-12T10:14:11.219-04:00I grew up in a farmhouse with those kind of switch...I grew up in a farmhouse with those kind of switches, a rotary phone, and a coal furnace. The house was wired when built which was actually a couple years before the electric lines got run to it.Christopher Bhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00396671757183163171noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19305198.post-49689566307508612522018-06-11T22:34:28.386-04:002018-06-11T22:34:28.386-04:00So long as they don't have knob and tube wirin...So long as they don't have knob and tube wiring behind the light switches...<br /><br />I'm amazed they still have a dial phone. Our local phone company changed their switching years ago and dial phones haven't worked since. They must have some kind of grandfather clause in the contract.<br /><br />A lot of the comics are same-old, same-old--and it seems that often the ones that don't quite match that template (Rose is Rose, Arlo N Janis) are the ones that get cut. I'm told this is the new golden age of comics--on the web. Anybody can get published and discovered on the web, and many thousands do. Of course on the web, not 90 but 99% of everything is trash, but that still leaves a few gems. Or did--I've not been reading much online beyond XKCD, so I don't know anymore.<br /><br />It's amazing how thin the Sunday paper gets when I strip out the ad fliers. Used to be we'd find something useful in those, but not much anymore--probably time to review the value of a subscription.jameshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01792036361407527304noreply@blogger.com