Colorful Characters — Harmon Ligon

Here’s a story from the summer of 1943.

It was apparantly quite popular as filler since it was picked up by quite a few newspapers at the time.

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A Pen Point

Older newspapers often had little sections in which small, pithy comments were made. These were good for filling out column inches.

I found an interesting one from 1944.

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Snowshoe

OK, I couldn’t resist.

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A Boy in Springtime

How about another old cartoon? This one is from 1903 and shows a theme we’ve seen again and again—back then kids just couldn’t wait to be able to start going barefoot all summer long.

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You’re a Sissy . . .

if you don’t go barefoot.

Or at least that’s the message from this 1899 cartoon.

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Merry Christmas

 

 

And a song, Barefoot Santa Claus, from Sonny James.

 

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Try and Stop Me

Here’s a bit of a cute anecdote about Dizzy Dean before he became a pro pitcher.

It’s from Bennett Cerf’s column in 1959.

Dizzy Dean, one of the all-time baseball greats, tells this story
on himself. When he was pitching for an Arkansas hillbilly nine in
his salad days, a rival outfit, determined to undo him, sprinkled
broken blass around the mound. Diz, barefoot, hurled six shutout
innings without a squawk, but then he stalked over to the rival
manager and grumbled, “Joe, you just gotta get this broken
glass away from here. It’s cuttin’ up the ball!”

Try and Stop Me

 

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A Dispatch Diversion

The Columbus Dispatch ran a story on Sunday about one of the local festivals, the “Independents’ Day” festival. One of the activities caught my eye.

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Some Comic Relief From Six Chix

Six Chix is a cartoon written by six different women, and tends to be pretty woman-oriented. And not surprisingly, that sometimes involves shoes.

Today’s strip was one of those.

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Non Sequitur

Somehow, this doesn’t seem to be the way it works for us.

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You Can’t Get Drunk Through Your Feet

And now for results from a hard-hitting scientific investigation.

Did you know that there is a Danish myth that you can get drunk by soaking your feet in alcohol?

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The Microbiome

There has been a rather recent realization that the human body is colonized by a whole host of various microbes. Some estimates are that there are as many as 10 times as many microbes cells than our own cells.

And they often serve an important function.

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Flip-Flops

Over at birthdayshoes.com, Justin Owens asks Are Flip-Flops Dangerous?

What he does is look at the scaremongering of two separate articles.

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Happy 4th of July

A repeat from two years ago:

Happy Barefoot 4th of July

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Light Blogging

I’m going to be busy for the next couple of weeks, and may have limited internet access. Thus, don’t worry if you don’t see me blogging every day.

However, keep coming back to check things out. You’ll never know what day might have something new and interesting.

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