THE DOMINOES ARE LINING UP
Bud Hancock’s alert mind gives a new slant on your human world. It takes many years of diligent work, experience, and study to acquire wisdom such as Bud’s. Gibber! Gibber! Chugley PS: If these articles are helpful to you would you consider buying me a banana by clicking the icon on the landing page right hand side? Amounts start at $5, and, if you help us, we can help our contributors, like Bud, and others. Many thanks to those who have helped so far – many thanks and a big Gibber! The Dominoes are Lining Up By Bud Hancock Introduction When I was just a kid, back in the 40’s and early 50’s, before TV was a household name and radio was still the king of entertainment, with only music and voices coming from a box, we had to use our imaginations to “see” what was happening on the programs we listened to. One might think that experience limited our development, but it encouraged us to develop and use our imaginations. Besides listening to great radio programs, such as “Burns and Allen”, “Jack Benny”, “The Shadow”, “Fibber McGee and Molly”, “The Inner Sanctum” and others, we had other games and pastimes to keep us busy in the evenings, especially when the programs on radio were not especially interesting. Dominoes was one of those fun games to play. We started with a set of “double-six” dominoes and then advanced to the much more challenging “double-twelve” set, which certainly dates me since there are now domino sets that are “double-eighteen”, possibly even higher. In any case, our whole family would sit around a table and try to win the game; it was a lot of fun and calculating a specific score as a new domino was added to one of the lines…