Nancy Classics by Ernie Bushmiller for December 06, 2023

Just wait until that driver rubs your face in it, Nancy!!

I wonder if the old trope of making a misbehaving child take castor oil would be considered child abuse today. It seemed quaint at one time.

Laughing at a castor disaster?

My grandmother, whose I stayed the summers with, was a big believer in castor oil. We would get a weekly dose whether we wanted, which we never did, or needed, which we never did. I refused to take it. Nasty stuff.

I’m with dat Nancy! Yukky

Unnecessary and dangerous.

The castor oil threatens, “Oil be back, Nancy.”

Ah, yes. The golden era of castor oil delivery trucks.

Ah, Bushy — Wholesale Distributor of classic comic strip humor!

There’s a scene in The Fourposter in which the husband finds a whiskey bottle in his teenage son’s room (the son is out at a dance), works himself into such a fury about it that he decides he needs a drink, and discovers that the son was only using the bottle to put his castor oil in instead of taking it for all those years.

Joseph Hazelwood Sr.?

Apparently once upon a time Castor Oil was an all purpose and hated by kids remedy for what ails you.

Bet Nancy was delighted all the bottles of castor oil got broken

Would she have laughed if the driver was killed in the accident?