tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31723906.post7011748815102176082..comments2024-01-28T22:17:29.551-08:00Comments on Pappy's Golden Age Comics Blogzine: Number 1559: Funny Films funny comic book!Pappyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01977289662431694607noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31723906.post-14977370200739775462014-04-18T06:45:56.221-07:002014-04-18T06:45:56.221-07:00I wonder if Dr. Seuss named the Wickersham brother...I wonder if Dr. Seuss named the Wickersham brothers in "Horton Hears a Who" after Bob.rnigmahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01370724366178429029noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31723906.post-80358470845735312682014-04-15T11:38:50.547-07:002014-04-15T11:38:50.547-07:00Well, people who suffer from disorders of mood or ...Well, people who suffer from disorders of mood or of concentration are often willing to pay that much or more for relief. The perverse thing in the case of the aforementioned substances is that they are the very <i>cause</i> of what they relieve. The <i>cure</i> (when there is one) is to hold back, and go through considerable discomfort for months or for years. But people take the view that “In the <i>long</i> run, we are dead.” and get relief for the short term.<br /><br />(And, yes, there's an analogy to be found with economic policy here.)Daniel [oeconomist.com]https://www.blogger.com/profile/06763094285750736837noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31723906.post-33219285323230529762014-04-15T09:35:04.505-07:002014-04-15T09:35:04.505-07:00When Big Pappy died of a massive heart attack at s...When Big Pappy died of a massive heart attack at such a young age in 1967 his doctor told my mother, "He died a smoker's death." When he was autopsied the pathologist told Mom "the heart attack saved him from lung cancer." One of his lungs was cancerous...it just hadn't been detected.<br /><br />I can't believe people still smoke, if not for health reasons then for the cost. Six bucks for a pack of cigarettes? <i>Gedouttahere!</i>Pappyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01977289662431694607noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31723906.post-79696585545088504622014-04-15T09:12:20.629-07:002014-04-15T09:12:20.629-07:00Odyzeus, thanks for the link. I did not see this b...Odyzeus, thanks for the link. I did not see this blog when I was researching Wickersham.Pappyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01977289662431694607noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31723906.post-19682630916616817632014-04-14T15:07:16.050-07:002014-04-14T15:07:16.050-07:00Hi, Pap,
Don't know if you're aware of th...Hi, Pap,<br /><br />Don't know if you're aware of this posting. In and of itself, it ain't much, but read the comments section where some of Wick's family chime in.<br /><br />http://classiccartoons.blogspot.com/2007/06/bob-wickershams-woodsman-spare-that.htmlOdyzeus!https://www.blogger.com/profile/08733818326999868887noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31723906.post-35529873800656215942014-04-14T10:47:53.431-07:002014-04-14T10:47:53.431-07:00There isn't much purpose to the lead-in for ea...There isn't much purpose to the lead-in for each story unless as filler — or <i>to pitch the character to a studio</i>. (“Hey! <i>Hey!</i> We really <i>could</i> make cartoons with this character!”)<br /><br />The truth of many psychotropics, including nicotine, is that the brain adjusts so that it will be as normal as it might when they are present, and this leaves it worse-than-normal when they are absent. Meanwhile, other body systems can't necessarily make so much of an adjustment. Smokers, alcoholics, and habitual users of cocaine end-up in vicious circles or spirals, destroying their bodies in an attempt to get away from sub-normality that, as it crept-up on them, most of them have confused with the ordinary.<br /><br />Even smokers who aren't outright killed by smoking suffer a variety of ills, in exchange for little more than an ability to blow smoke and a way to waste time.Daniel [oeconomist.com]https://www.blogger.com/profile/06763094285750736837noreply@blogger.com