Pluggers by Rick McKee for March 01, 2022

A plugge will also remember the smart aleck older brother or sister that sent him on that snipe hunt in the first place. :D

And he remembers being sent to find a left-handed monkey wrench!

Sniper….

Poor bear cub look famished.

snipe hunt ??

had a friend years ago sent on snipe hunt. found a young man, last name snipe. friend is mrs snipe. hunt was a success.

…and bring back a bucket of steam.

As a camp counselor in the late seventies, my co-counselor and I took ten 12 year olds to the dark and scary woods. Everyone had flashlights, but we were doing a dark acclimatization exercise, so we all had them turned off. (You can see surprisingly well in the dark when you let your eyes adapt.) The plan involved a shriek and some ketchup, but never reached fruition. We walked up on a screech owl, who screeched. Spent the next half hour finding all the kids.

Mine was in a cornfield abutting our property. It was twilight and I was about 8-9 years old. When I realized everyone left and it was eerily quiet I realized I had been had and walked home. I was thrilled when I did come upon my first Wilson’s Snipe a few miles from where I live. Got to view it for at least 15 minutes and observe it.

But the joke turns out to be on the prankster because there is such a bird. Snipe – A wading bird of marshes and wet meadows, with brown camouflaged plumage, a long straight bill, and typically a drumming display flight.

When I first saw this cartoon, I thought he was going to try “To Catch a Falling Star”.

Never been on one. Are they good eating?

We sent air cadets to supply for a bucket of prop wash and some hanger line.

Left handed smoke shifter.

A wily beast, the snipe, which can only be described as somewhere between mythical and apocryphal.

Anyone else NOT see any of today’s, March first, ComicsKingdom toons?

What would he do with a bag full of Snipes anyway?

I miss Strob. :(

Later in life, we sent rookie telephone switch room techs for a bucket of dial tone.

The first snipe hunt is usually the last as the hunter.

Probably only Pluggers still remember those. I think I just missed being taken for one when I was young, and I haven’t heard of anybody doing it since then.

And don’t forget being sent to the headquarters tent to bring back the cannon report.