Nancy Classics by Ernie Bushmiller for December 03, 2019

Nice try Nancy,but i don’t believe that it’s going to work.

That’s a pretty sweet deal even with normal child sized hands.

back when you could afford stuff for one penny!

“What? What?! The Glove is losing his touch!” -Chief Blue Meanie

Pretty sure it has to be a human hand, sweetie. Also, am I the only one to hate jelly beans?

Oy!

Ah, 1950. When one cent would buy you a custom tailored suit. With two pairs of slacks.

It must have been wild before Stop Signs were standardized.

She pulled a street sign out of the ground with her bare hands. Is she Nancy or Pippi Longstocking?

OK…lets see how well she can “Hold” them…

1-I’m so mad at Sluggo! Always telling me how I “should” be doing things. Hey…

2-TALK TO THE HAND SLUGGO, TALK TO THE HAND.

they will roll off using that hand.

What the heck is a “stop street”? I know these strips are old, but this apparently pre-dates the introduction of the octagonal red stop sign.

If the hand means “stop”, then why do you need the stop sign?

If you can see the stop sign, why do you need the hand?

Octagonal stop signs (albeit originally being yellow) have been standard in the United States since 1922. It looks like that this wild melange of signage was created specifically for this gag.

I was wondering about this sign. I have never seen such a sign before. Here are a few that are “close” to what Ernie drew:

https://cdn0.iconfinder.com/data/icons/public-road-outdoor-signs/48/ryan-20-512.png

https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQjoRuVEuZBgkegF2xfWKs3lK_pOrr94QAhV9kZuJKTGJLisuXagA&s

https://c8.alamy.com/comp/R8AJPH/golan-israel-28th-oct-2018-israel-has-not-adopted-the-design-directive-of-the-vienna-convention-for-road-signs-and-signals-and-uses-a-hand-placed-on-an-octagonal-traffic-sign-as-a-stop-sign-28-october-2018-usage-worldwide-credit-dpaalamy-live-news-R8AJPH.jpg

https://as2.ftcdn.net/jpg/01/46/30/97/500_F_146309722_loFNYNOdNGM8vcXLDYnwdqBB3z2GGufr.jpg

None of the above are super close to what Ernie drew… so I keep thinking he may have made this up just for the joke.

Little Audrey politely declined the grocer’s invitation to help herself to a handful of cherries, but gratefully accepted the handful he gave her. He had bigger hands.

Even if you take the store sign the way it was meant, that ain’t sanitary.

These days that white hand meaning stop is within the fimbralated octagon to mean “stop” without words.

Good luck greedy.