Donations

Sometimes, life can bring pleasant surprises.
One evening last week, while we digested supper by watching TV, the doorbell rang, and my wife went to answer.
Two young girls, one in grade 2 and one in grade 1 at the local elementary school, were standing there (with Mom in the background), asking for a donation to 'Muscular Dystrophy.'
I recall that when folks used to collect for the Jerry Lewis Telethon, it was usually carried out by a group of tall firefighters (members of the International Firefighters Union), and you placed your donation in the 'Boot.'
To use the current jargon, Dear Reader,: For transparency -- I have a form of muscular dystrophy: Charcot-Marie-Tooth Disease, or C-M-T, and have difficulty walking and performing some fine-motor tasks.
However, the girls' query 'passed the test,' and as my wife was handing over our donation,

The Funnies - 2

Here are more 'Funnies' that I used to see in the newspapers:
-- L'il Abner (Yokum); who was a tall, but not very bright, 'Southern Boy';' with his perpetual, voluptuous girlfriend, Daisy Mae; autocratic Mammy, (whose phrase, 'Ah has spoken!' stopped every argument in its tracks.).
One of the strangest denizens of Dogpatch, U-S-A, Joe Btfsplk, the world's worst jinx, was always drawn with a dark rain cloud over his head.
The strip, written and drawn by Al Capp, ran for 43 years, reaching some 60 million readers. In 1937, it introduced the cultural event known as 'The Sadie Hawkins Dance,' where a woman invites a man of her choice, instead of demurely waiting for a man to ask her.