[Nancy, May 23, 1950.]
In today’s yesterday’s Nancy, we behold the world in which all kinds of packages were tied up with string. The grocer’s casual attitude — he’s turned his attention elsewhere, even as he replies to Nancy — changes in the strip’s final panel (what Ernie Bushmiller called “the snapper”), as the string unspools through the store window, past a hydrant, across a street, across a lawn, and into the sky, at the end of a kite.
I knew I’d seen this grocer before: he appears in the December 19, 1949 installment of Nancy, in which he obliges Nancy with some wrapping paper. (Some!) In a post about that strip, I wrote: “I hope the grocer has an enormous roll of string suspended from the ceiling with which to wrap packages.” He — and Ernie Bushmiller — haven’t let me down.
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Thursday, May 18, 2023
World of string
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I've always been curious about how people will say, "May I borrow ...?" when they have no intention of returning it, nor does the "lender" have any expectation that it will be returned. It's an oddity that I've never been able to understand.
BTW, Mike's Pastry on Hanover Street in Boston's North End still has those string dispensers, and the boxes of pastries are still tied up as they've always been.
I’m sure Nancy has every intention of returning that string (eventually). But the wrapping paper, that’s hers.
I think Modern Pastry has a string dispenser too. The last time I was there we just took the box as it was and immediately ate the cannolis.
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