Crankshaft (9-19)

Antonio E. Gonzalez

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Sep 20, 2008, 2:38:54 AM9/20/08

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Bushka? A distant relative of Bull?:

<http://www.chron.com/apps/comics/showComick.mpl?date=20080919&name=Crankshaft>

<http://preview.tinyurl.com/43qr7e>

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Jym Dyer

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Sep 21, 2008, 10:51:14 PM9/21/08

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=v= Is that a younger 'Shaft actually ... *gulp!* ...
SMILING in the last panel of the September 21 strip?

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/comics/crankshaft.html

(Smirking, actually, but you know.)
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Jym Dyer

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Sep 25, 2008, 4:58:06 AM9/25/08

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> =v= Is that a younger 'Shaft actually ... *gulp!* ...
> SMILING in the last panel of the September 21 strip?

http://www.chron.com/apps/comics/showComick.mpl?date=20080921&name=Crankshaft

> (Smirking, actually, but you know.)

=v= It's a real live non-Batiuk-smirk smile today!

http://www.chron.com/apps/comics/showComick.mpl?date=20080925&name=Crankshaft

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aemeijers

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Sep 25, 2008, 5:14:33 PM9/25/08

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These flashbacks are starting to stretch credulity, chronology-wise. If
Cranky was in WWII, and played ball after, that means he was born in
1925 at the latest. That puts him at 83 or so. Does any state let an 83
YO drive a bus full of school kids? Even if the state still lets them
drive a POV, wouldn't the school system's insurance carrier have a word
to say about that?

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Mike B

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Sep 25, 2008, 7:14:46 PM9/25/08

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aemeijers wrote:
> These flashbacks are starting to stretch credulity,
> chronology-wise. If Cranky was in WWII, and played ball after, that
> means he was born in 1925 at the latest. That puts him at 83 or so.
> Does any state let an 83 YO drive a bus full of school kids? Even
> if the state still lets them drive a POV, wouldn't the school
> system's insurance carrier have a word to say about that?

Crankshaft has found that sometimes he wakes up and in the rest of
the world ten years or so has gone by while he hasn't aged a day...

Pat O'Neill

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Sep 25, 2008, 8:07:11 PM9/25/08

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On Sep 25, 5:14 pm, aemeijers <aemeij...@att.net> wrote:

>
> These flashbacks are starting to stretch credulity, chronology-wise. If
> Cranky was in WWII, and played ball after, that means he was born in
> 1925 at the latest. That puts him at 83 or so. Does any state let an 83
> YO drive a bus full of school kids? Even if the state still lets them
> drive a POV, wouldn't the school system's insurance carrier have a word
> to say about that?
>

Actually, we have no info on how long Crankshaft was in WW2; he could
have enlisted as late as 1944 as a 17-year-old high school grad, which
could make him as young as 80. There are some pretty sharp, spry 80
year olds in my church. Or, he could even have lied about his age to
enlist. (My dad did.)