It's really hard to make anything with an etch a sketch, even their own r&d can't do it.
I visit my local food pantry regularly, so I think I have some perspective.
There's a state run mobile food pantry that makes up boxes of shelf stable foods to give out. It's wonderful, but it's always pretty much the same things every time-- canned corn, peas, tuna, fruit, spaghetti sauce, beans. They are clearly buying staples in bulk to give out, which makes sense for their process.
When I go to my local pantry, which gets a lot of direct donations, I can find a much wider variety of products. Canned chicken, nice soups, ravioli, artichokes, diced tomatoes, etc. It makes for a more varied and interesting diet.
Donating money is great and versatile, but donating canned goods can be valuable too.
Please come to my house and enjoy all the juicy voles, so they'll stop eating my beans and cukes.
Because "Indians" used to bury people this way as a form of torture, or test of bravery--only they probably didn't really, at least not as much as movies might have suggested. Here's a clip from the movie "Jeremiah Johnson" (1972), which was very well known at the time and probably inspired this strip: https://youtu.be/pYhlVR9GzjA?si=klSXoYG0m3ynJzE4
Currently, mmr is about 86% effective against mumps. It may have been less so in the 80s. Also, she may have only had one round of shots. Could be she was just unlucky, and her immune response wasn't strong enough. It's not unheard of.
I believe it's referring to a barn dance They were popular at the time of the strip, except in this case, the band booked a barn dance with actual barn animals. I think the drawing style looks different because this is an early one, 1981.
In 1982, it would have been unheard of for a pet store to be selling snakes in a window like this. Puppies, bunnies, guinea pigs, sure, but not snakes. Maybe they would have one or two in the back of the store, but it wasn't common. That makes this scenario unlikely and somewhat absurd. Plus, Larson loves snakes and probably this would have been a wish fulfillment for him.
Glade. "A small area of grass without trees in a forest."
It's a very old nursery rhyme dating from 1744. There are variations, but it's basically this:
Ladybug! Ladybug! Fly away home. Your house is on fire. And your children all gone.
All except one, And that's little Ann, For she crept under The frying pan.
Considering the resemblance, I'm surprised there are none named for a cat of some kind.
I wonder how many owls have another animal in the name? Eagle Owl, Hawk Owl, Fish Owl... Elf Owl, does that count?
I love how she looks right at the camera afterwards like, "Did you see that!"
I've voted in all three! Tough to pick a fave, though it's hard to go wrong with a good Flammy. 🦉
Spooky The Great Horned Owl
UPI Archives April 7, 1989 Spooky the Owl dead at 38
BOSTON -- Spooky the Owl, the 38-year-old mascot of Boston's Museum of Science and the oldest great horned owl in captivity, has died after a career that included 25,000 performances before delighted crowds.
Spooky, whose antics were seen by about 30 million visitors, was brought to the museum as a hatchling in 1951 and quickly became a major attraction. Officials said he died at the museum Wednesday.
'The museum has lost a very good friend. He certainly did more than his share of working here over 38 years. Spooky and the folks who acted as his interpreters did a fabulous job in teaching folks about owls. He is certainly a bird that is going to be missed,' Lewis Stevens, coordinator of the museum's Live Animal Center, said Friday.
Great horned owls normally live only 10 years in the wild. Spooky was known for sitting atop a lecturer's shoulder and turning his head 180 degrees while keeping his body motionless.
'He was a very noble bird,' Stevens said. 'In my 15 years of working with animals, on a scale of 1 to 10, he would rate a Number 10.'
The great horned owl is a powerful bird of prey. One born and raised in the wild could inflict serious damage on humans with its powerful bill and talons.
But Spooky was hand-reared after he was brought to the museum when he was three days old.
'The constant human attention that he got over the years is what made him a very tame animal. He liked to work with people,' Stevens said. 'It wasn't as much a matter of training Spooky as training people to work with Spooky. Chances of finding another owl with the same temperament are very slim.
Spooky, who had done more than 25,000 performances, was taken last week to Angell Memorial Hospital for a liver scan and was later returned to the museum.
Miosurnia Diurna, six million year old owl fossil
https://www.forbes.com/sites/grrlscientist/2022/03/29/first-ever-fossil-of-an-owl-thats-active-in-daytime-unearthed-in-china/?sh=779a77077030