Nancy Classics by Ernie Bushmiller for January 13, 2020
January 11, 2020
January 14, 2020
Transcript:
Sluggo: Hey, Nancy-- FLYING SAUCERS. Nancy: I've heard of those things. WHERE? WHERE? Sluggo: Over here. Building reads: DINER
Pretty fast work. This strip was published less than three years after the first known use of the term “flying saucer.” Soon, pretty much every report of unknown flying objects used the term. But the pilot who was the source of the term“saucer” never used it to describe the shape of the things he’d seen. He was describing their movement, which he said was like “a saucer if you skip it across water.”
Power of suggestion on a mass scale?