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[Hi and Lois, February 24, 2013.]

Yes, this post is the third Hi and Lois post in four days. But you know what Dr. Johnson said: “When a man is tired of Hi and Lois, he is tired of life.” Although it is true that he spoke in the earliest years of this long-running strip.

In 2008, I noticed that Trixie was riding in the front seat of the Flagston family car. Ever since I’ve kept an eye out for Hi-Lo incongruities and mishaps. In 2010, Trixie was stashed in the back of the family’s station wagon. So I feel honor-bound to note that today Trixie rides safely in a car seat.

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[I know: Lois isn’t wearing a seat belt.]

RU Post-it

A young man is covering the Rutgers University campus with Post-it Notes that bear inspiring words. I like that. Read more:

RU Post-it Anonymous (Rumblr)
RU Post-it Anonymous (Twitter)
Student behind Rutgers’s anonymous Post-it notes comes clean (nj.com)

I suppose that RU Post-it is a twenty-first use for a Post-it Note. Thanks, Rob, for passing on this story.

A pencil-sharpener problem

It’s not what you might expect though.

This Google search — write a story problem: 7,241 broken pencil sharpeners — brought a wayfaring stranger to the shores of Orange Crate Art. Her or his wish is my command. Here goes:

There are 7,241 broken pencil sharpeners in the town of Point Pleasant. If the town has 557 repair centers, can they divide the repairs equally? Show your work.

Kentile Floors

Brooklyn wouldn’t be Brooklyn without Kentile Floors.

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February 24: As Pete Lit points out in a comment, there’s a Kentile sign in Chicago. Who knew? Not me.

TAL at Harper High School

Chicago’s Harper High School is the subject of two episodes of This American Life. The toll of gun violence from the 2011–2012 school year: twenty-nine current and former students shot; twenty-one wounded, eight killed.

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Separated at birth? Ted Cruz’s resemblance to Joseph McCarthy deepens. Now with allegations of Communists at Harvard Law School.

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[Hi and Lois, February 22, 2013.]

If I were one of those people who think that their radios and televisions are sending them secret messages, I would wonder what’s going on here. But I’m not, and I don’t. Far right, that’s a Led Zeppelin poster, nothing more, nothing less. It has nothing to do with Leddy. Still, you gotta wonder.¹

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¹No, you don’t, not really.

[By the way: what is that stuff in the bottom-left corner?]

Hats off to Allaway

[Life, April 24, 1950.]

I’d like to know something about the hand that made this lovely piece of commercial art. It appears under the heading “A Chorus of Praise” in an advertisement for AC Spark Plugs. The tiny lettering in the lower left corner appears to be the artist’s name, Allaway. It took two trips to the library, the second with a loupe, to figure that out. Thanks, library. Thanks, loupe. I’ve been unable though to find out anything about the artist.

How many hat-and-glove pairings in this picture signify specific occupations? I see nine before starting to guess. You?

[Post title inspired by an old song.]

Creeping credentialism

Here’s a law firm that won’t hire anyone, for any position, who doesn’t have a college degree. Even the $10-an-hour courier has a bachelor’s.

Says one of the firm’s employees, a receptionist with $100,000 in student loans, “I will probably never see the end of that bill, but I’m not really thinking about it right now . . . . You know, this is a really great place to work.”

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[Hi and Lois, February 21, 2013.]

In the Flagston household, as in Washington, there are Cabinet (or cabinet) changes. But in the Flagston household, they’re all in a day’s work.

 

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