Nancy Classics by Ernie Bushmiller for August 03, 2021
August 02, 2021
August 04, 2021
Transcript:
Nancy: What does your father do for a living, Alvin? Boy: Can you keep a secret? Nancy: Sure. Boy: Will you promise not to tell a soul? Nancy: SURE. Boy: He makes antique furniture.
allen@home over 3 years ago
Yea Nancy wouldn’t want that getting around.
Dr. Quatermass over 3 years ago
Yup, he makes antique furniture for present day Middlebury Vermonters who have no life.
dcandmx over 3 years ago
New furniture made old.
Charlie Fogwhistle over 3 years ago
At the time this strip came out, probably just a simple contradiction joke. Now? Purveyor of fake antiques.
Major Matt Mason Premium Member over 3 years ago
Nowadays, it’s “repro vintage” furniture, and tends to come from Asia.
jagedlo over 3 years ago
“Now remember, you promised to keep this a secret!”
Zebrastripes over 3 years ago
Dis kids fadder isn’t on the up and up…
Kip Williams over 3 years ago
I remember a sequence in Leslie Torner’s “Captain Easy” where the Kallikak family [carrying on the tradition of hillbilly humor] was being used in a scam by the wealthy McKee to make new furniture look like antiques by letting them use it for a couple of days. They found out what was happening and decided to help, and let’s just say it didn’t work out.
Carl Rennhack Premium Member over 3 years ago
COMMISSIONER REAGAN: Can you keep a secret? ASSISTANT D.A. REAGAN: Sure. COMMISSIONER: So can I!!
Not the Smartest Man On the Planet -- Maybe Close Premium Member over 3 years ago
Cool hat, Alvin.
billyk75 over 3 years ago
What’s so cloak and dagger about that?
tinstar over 3 years ago
If you think about it, nothing says his dad wasn’t making future antique furniture, since it would be, now.
brklnbern over 3 years ago
Can’t make it, can only fake it.