A special supplement today on BirdingPI.com, featuring the first three ‘episodes’ of a comic series recently unearthed in a banker box of mostly old newspaper clippings in the basement of one of the local Erie libraries. No attribution and no conclusive evidence of publication or date. Possibly circa late 1950s.
Stayed tuned for more Jimmy McMillan, Bird Detective! in upcoming weeks!
[Editor’s note: KLEENEX is a registered trademark of Kimberly-Clark Corporation.]
[Editor’s note: The BirdingPI.com editorial staff apologizes in advance for any “non-politically correct” depictions of gender, ethnicity, social status, country of origin status, etc.; this series is a ‘strange artifact’ of mid-20th century sensibilities, presented for contemplative comparison relative to modern standards of print journalism.]
Wow! What a find! Really ‘old school…’ I can’t wait for the ‘punks’ to fly a kite… will it want to be flown by them? Or will the ‘kite’ fly them?
https://writingexplained.org/idiom-dictionary/go-fly-a-kite
Perhaps ‘facial tissue’ would not violate the Kleenex patents?
Who knows what the author(s) was up to back then. Certainly much less concerned about proper trademark usage!
Patents and trademarks, not the same thing. But, yes, ’tissue’ better than using the brand name, for sure.