Recovering academic now in public safety. You’ll find me kibitzing on brains (my academic expertise) to critical infrastructure and resilience (current worklife). Also hockey, games, music just because.
Everett reads the paper and works in an office so we know he’s literate.
There were special tellers cages for handling bank notes in old banks. They would lock the clerks in when the bank opened and let them out after the cash transactions were reconciled at the end of their shift. This seems to be a “modern” bank with counter service rather than a cage.
Sometimes he’s just a dick.
Everett is withdrawing cash from a bank teller just in case someone is wondering about the context.
The triplets would be 11 by this strip I think.
I’ve done the Burgess Shale hike. I was surprised to hear how few anomolacaris specimens there are. Lots of pieces, but very few segments are attached to each other. The species is now being found in China and I understand that some of those specimens are more complete.
I got strapped in school, but even I’m not old enough to remember when it was OK to beat employees.
Tell me you’ve never played a Witcher game using a whole paragraph.
Try on my petticoats will you! They’re stretched beyond wear!
You beat me to it - I was going to chime in with the anecdote that I actually had to learn this as a choir boy for an Easter service. LOL.
Savage.
I feel Everett here. I married into a family of food pushers.
What’s the date on this one?
Eta: January 24 1908. So sometime in 1908 he gave up the demon drink.
New avatar incoming!
What is going on with baby mama’s hat?
Please please please let it be Lambert and Keira Metz squabbling all over the continent as they track something stupid.
Bucket hat, skinny jeans, funky socks…that’s almost a contemporary look. Lol.
I think it’s a one panel strip and the councilman has failed to provide funding for orphans.
It’s a tophat. It came into fashion in the early 1800s and had pretty much run it’s course by 1930 or so. So in this comic it’s kind of at the end of the run. Imagine someone showing up with layered polos and an Ed Hardy trucker hat and you get the idea. My own wife likes me to wear bowties out and I personally think they look stupid. And I hate to tie them. Who even wears them out anymore? me.
Eta: I notice that there is a texture difference between ET and the man in the back also wearing a topper. I wonder if it’s supposed to suggest that the one in the back is silk and True’s is beaver felt? Or maybe there is something else that I’m missing in the context.
It was a cause celebre during this period. Mostly due to Upton Sinclair. https://www.history.com/news/upton-sinclair-the-jungle-us-food-safety-reforms
Let me introduce you gentleman to Doug Prasher.
https://www.science.org/content/article/man-who-wasnt-there
He was years ahead of the field in molecular biology but was parking cars when his work won a Nobel Prize…for other people.