Buddy's Blog

BTW, Tom S sent me this photo a while back. Ernie and Doris in his DeSoto. I think he was just learning to drive. Thanks, Tom.

Earlier I was saying how my mother never figured out how to center photos. Here are a couple of me that I just came across:

I remember that sand box. It always had stinky lumps in it.

OK, Steve A, you asked for it. I managed to find some old papers:

BTW, this is pretty typical of scientific papers in the physics journals. Pretty boring.

OK, I’m jealous. Robert R, looks about age 6:

He had a pony! All I had was a goat.

Ok, I had computer problems yesterday. I’m going to start the toaster story from the beginning.

I think that a toaster cartoon by Jack Zeigler (New Yorker) got me interested in toasters. And there was that Kliban cartoon about the guy who sucked on his girlfriend’s toaster. I have a good single panel toaster cartoon that I’ll show you later.

I heat up leftover eggplant in my toaster.

Actually, I think it’s Sunday. Maybe, maybe not, but I’m close. First here’s yesterday’s hilarious conclusion:

Sid’s mom left a couple weeks after this.

My mother loved to short sheet peoples’ beds.

Howdy. Frau G tells me it’s date night.

I’m sure all you parents had problems with your children from time to time. You recall that Sid’s dad, Grandpa Fernwilter, spent time in Sing Sing and various other rehabilatative facilities. The apple don’t fall far from the tree. The nuts don’t fall from the tree either.

Steve A. says he had ten kids (Are you nuts, Steve? All I had is Loinfruit and that was plenty)… Here’s six of Steve’s. Ain’t they cute?

Eric P emailed me about Chief Halftown: I watched the Chief Halftown show in the 1950s. The show ran until 1999, and is very likely the longest running show with the same star ever. It has to be. I know that there is one soap that has been going for a long time, and one gal was on it for a long time, but I don’t know if she was on it for 53 years. Chief Halftown must have been mighty old when he finally laid down his tomahawk. Good for him.

Bob K told me in Comments that he used to watch Chief Halftown in the 60’s. Way long after me. My card is from 1948 or 49. Chief Halftown’s show was out of Philly.

But my biggest treasure is my 1947 Howdy Doody for President button. It was before Howdy became a cowboy. That first year he was a clown puppet. Buffalo Bob Smith did all the voices of the puppets. I met Buffalo Bob when I was about 30 years old. I showed him my button, and he called me up in front of the crowd. As he talked to me he put his arm around me just like he did with the little kids when he had his show. It was really, really special for me.