The school nurse didn’t, however, perhaps believing that, if it didn’t sting, it wasn’t doing the job. Juxtaposition of the DayStill on today’s topic of memories, Dan Thompson pulls out an old pair of ancient characters for these puns. Del Monte has gone belly up and California farmers are chopping down 420,000 peach trees for lack of a market. Which reminds me of a story my grandfather told of going to Leadville, Colorado, in 1937 to scout the molybdenum mines on behalf of Bethlehem Steel. Mike Peterson has posted his "Comic Strip of the Day" column every day since 2010.