Derrick Bostrom's newspaper clippings from the 1980s
Meat Puppet Derrick Bostrom has kindly scanned and uploaded a bunch of odd, funny, and frightening newspaper clippings he's saved since the 1980s. Things I Should Throw Out: Clippings From The Eighties (Bostworld)
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Ah. A classic from Bil Keane's "BAM" period.
I wonder what fast food restaurant Rick was the manager of.
Family Circle isn't usually so ...real...
Am I the only one who initially expected answers to "When was the last time you really let loose?" to be along the lines of "It was after my friend's chili party...I was on the train going home and just couldn't hold it in any longer. Had a lot of space around me after that. Good thing no one struck a match"?
Thought so.
I'm a bad person.
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Who knew drawings of men shooting at children would hold such an overwhelming international fascination?
Serves me right for using my own host for the graphics. Error remedied.
Whoa. Anybody want to find out if Asti Benoit has let loose yet?
http://www.stcmmrcls.cm/cntct.html
One of my yoga colleagues told me that she had done something incredibly shocking over the weekend. The way she whispered it, I was thinking that she smoked crack and woke up naked in a dumpster behind Taco Bell. It turns out that her crime was eating a bag of potato chips. Some people have lower standards for letting loose.
Where can I get a job as a computer operator?
I've got a few 70s-80s clippings myself:
Brady Bunch House loses its toilet---Laugh Control: a game---bad Morley Safer sketch used to sell "viaticals" (death futures)---"What would old Ike do if he was in the saddle?"
wow, I remember that "Family Circus" comic from the Sunday funnies in the late Milwaukee Journal (now Milwaukee Journal Sentinel). Weird.
Oh, and let me tell you, I really let loose at our community garden plot today as the man with magic mulch.
You had to be there.
Oops...link is:
http://tulsatvmemories.com/gb072705.html#brady
RE: The Carenbauer "kill 'em all" story
What people outside of Wheeling, W.Va., should know is that Carenbauer Distributing is the largest alcohol operation in the region.
Steve Strom--that's incorrect. My first drinking experience was tequila in Iowa. If I remember correctly, it was in a plastic bottle with a label featuring an ear of corn, and accompanied by about 6 Natty Lights.
I wonder what kind of newspaper clippings Tico Torres collected during the 1980s?
Were they less weird, or significantly more so?
Great to hear from D. Bostrom. Go team!
I wonder how that Family Circus panel would do if placed in today's paper. It's pretty dark.
Okay WTF? what is up with that Family Circus comic? What is the message? I remember the one with the hand of god coming down from the sky. This one though, That is just wierd.
Looks like this might be Rick "show me your t*ts" rasmussen :
http://rasmussenconsulting.com/about_us.html
If so, according to the dates in the article, he was a manager at Fairchild Semiconductor or LSI Logic at the time - not a fast food restaurant.
Ployntabs, it shows a mother hearing a sudden loud noise and instantly mentally inventing a worst-case scenario about one of her children. I have known mothers who denied doing this, but I'm pretty sure they were lying. (Nearly all fathers deny it, and I sure hope most or all of them were lying.)
I'm also pretty sure there's another panel for this one (though FC was usually a one-panel strip) showing her seeing a car backfiring and looking relieved. The message is "Ha ha, see how silly Mom is, worrying herself over nothing."
The greater plausibility of her invented scenario makes it seem really dark today. But those were happier* days, and actually it was just misogynist.
*for some values of the term
I dunno...that 'Street Talk' newspaper clipping looks and reads awfully like something from The Onion. Notice that the model at the bottom of the section says that no one has lit her fire for 20 years and it lists her as 22 y.o. Could be wrong though.
I'm guessing that the Family Circus panel came sometime shortly after Bil Keane read Watchmen...
Fellow Phoenician Bill Keane used to live just up the street from me when I was teenager.
For me, the cartoon fills me with warm memories of coming of age in Phoenix, when we'd all pile into the back of the pickup with our hunting caps, vests and shotguns, get high and go hunting at the neighborhood school crossing zone.
Derrick, you're a Bad Person.*
*That is, too funny. LOL