1+ week, 14+ hour ago   (749+ words) Advertising signs come and go, but few remain over the long haul. In the mid-20th century, for example, Burma-Shave limericks nailed to fence posts along highways, greatly outnumbering what we call billboards today. Birthed in the minds of two brothers who…...

2+ week, 22+ hour ago   (522+ words) Maybe folks started listening for goofs when radio became a luxury during the Great Depression. (Until then, I suppose they occurred most often in simple, face-to-face communication, or maybe with megaphones.) For the longest time, Harry von Zell’s alleged foul-up…...

3+ week, 15+ hour ago   (565+ words) Allen Saunders, an obscure Canadian cartoonist, is cited for an inscription in his 1956 “Mary Worth” comic strip. No doubt it had local impact, but much more the next year when repeated in the Reader’s Digest. “Life is what happens to…...