Just a little humor
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Shiftless2
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My inner grammar nerd can't ignore this
"Grammar", grampar, everyone enjoys it equally, except aunt chovy.
A Guinness brewery worker travels to the home of his co-worker with bad news.
'I'm sorry Mary, but Keith died at the brewery today'.
'Oh my god!' replied Mary, 'What happened?!'
'He drown in a vat of Guinness Stout' said the worker, sadly.
'That's terrible! Was it a quick death at least?' asked Mary.
'I'm afraid not,' the worker replied, 'He had to climb out three different times to take an ultra-mega sudsy whizz.
Shiftless2
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Anyone remember these?
I was born '54. Back then the nickel, the five cent coin was the candy standard. It was the cost of a chocolate bar, and a small cardboard box of ~8 or 10 (don't remember) Chiclets chewing gum.
The chewing gum standard was Wrigley's, a package of 5 sticks for a nickel. BUT !
For bubble gum, Bazooka had about cornered the market. It was sold in small pink bars with a longitudinal score on each side, wrapped in wax paper, and included a comic plus a fortune, like that depicted in #824.
The character with the red turtleneck pulled up to or over nose always puzzled me, to this day.
I'm skeptical about whether chewing gum has contributed much to society. But ...
Shiftless2
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And it was common practice that once you've read the comic you tore it up to be sure that nobody else found it and read it - after all, it was yours and nobody else's.
