Herman by Jim Unger for March 01, 2022

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    suv2000  over 2 years ago

    GOOGLE IT

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    Liverlips McCracken Premium Member over 2 years ago

    Wow. this one must be really old.

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    Cornelius Noodleman  over 2 years ago

    I ride the school bus

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    mourdac Premium Member over 2 years ago

    I thought encyclopedias went the way of rotary phones.

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    monya_43  over 2 years ago

    Since when is an encyclopedia a mode of transportation?

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    Zebrastripes  over 2 years ago

    Why can’t he do both?

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    Doug Taylor Premium Member over 2 years ago

    He may have walked to school in his day but some how I don’t think he ever went inside.

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    sandpiper  over 2 years ago

    He mispronounced the model of car the kid wants. Easy to do. They are all over the place for names.

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    WCraft Premium Member over 2 years ago

    Kid: What is an encyclopeida?

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    Linguist  over 2 years ago

    " What’s an encyclopedia, Grandpa? "

    " A set of reference books, I used to sell door-to-door, son. "

    " What’s a reference book, Grandpa? "

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    mindjob  over 2 years ago

    My childhood encyclopedia was my proudest possession. It was about 1 foot thick and had its own stand. Then came my 3D chess set.

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    Diat60  over 2 years ago

    I had this one growing up in the 40’s and 50’s. Loved it! https://www.amazon.com/Book-Knowledge-Childrens-Encyclopedia-Carpet/dp/B000YBK0FA

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    oldlady07 Premium Member over 2 years ago

    I get the impression that dad did not get a great education, just a lot of exercise.

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    paranormal  over 2 years ago

    Slept all the time at school, huh?

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    Local 574 Premium Member over 2 years ago

    The drawings are 50% of the hilarity for Herman.

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    Mentor397  over 2 years ago

    I wish we had a proper encyclopedia set when I was growing up. We had a set – literally! from 1919. Sigh.

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    Bill D. Kat Premium Member over 2 years ago

    Aside from the library, a home encyclopedia was the only useful source of information when I was growing up. When the local supermarket began selling the Funk & Wagnall’s set one volume at a time for a dollar each, my mom had the foresight to buy them on her weekly shopping trips. It was a real God-send to a poor family such as ours to be able to retrieve information for our schoolwork or just out of curiosity. It was a much simpler world back then, and it may just have been a better one.

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    David Huie Green LoveJoyAndPeace  over 2 years ago

    Get the finest, most comprehensive, up-to-date encyclopedia in the world in the morning and something will be out of date by the afternoon.

    Find the oldest encyclopedia in the world and some parts will still be pertinent.

    Get the internet and you may have it all — as well as all the garbage.

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    cuzinron47  over 2 years ago

    Who needs one when you have wikipedia.

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    schaefer jim  over 2 years ago

    Yeah like back in the 50’s

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    Doug Taylor Premium Member over 2 years ago

    Thirty years ago the local grocery store had a deal on encyclopedias. Buy a hundred dollars worth of groceries and buy one encyclopedia volume for a buck. I got the entire set of 26 volumes and they are in mint condition on my book shelf next to my 52 year (and counting) collection of National Geographic magazines in their gold embossed pleather book cases.

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    Sailor46 USN 65-95  over 2 years ago

    Uphill both ways, in the snow.

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    DaBump Premium Member over 2 years ago

    Next, the kid will be asking for a thesaurus!

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