Here’s a reason to put off cleaning your house another day! Baby Blues has always been one of my favorite comic strips. (All rights belong to its creators, Jerry Scott and Rick Kirkman, King Features Syndicate. Check out their website for more fun with Wanda, Darryl, and the kids!)
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What do you think this young homemaker from the 1950s is thinking about?
“I wonder if that gold refrigerator I bought will look dated in a few years?”
“Should I hang that horse and jockey wallpaper in my kitchen?”
“If only I had a portable stereo in here!”
Write your own caption for her in the comments and tell [...]
In the 1950s, they envisioned a future that was plastic and waterproof. The teeny-tiny caption says, “Because everything in her home is waterproof, the housewife of 2000 can do her daily cleaning with a hose.”
I don’t know about you, but I’m thinking it wouldn’t be a bad idea to have a drain in the middle of my living [...]
NOTE: THIS WAS ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED AS A “GUESSING GAME” UNDER THE TITLE, “CAN YOU GUESS WHO LIVED HERE?”
Can you guess which famous literary figure lived in this Hartford, Connecticut house from 1874 to 1891? Here are your three clues:
1) He was born in Florida, Missouri, in 1835. Missouri was a slave state at the time, [...]
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