GOOGILY EYES: Robert Ward of Wellsboro writes: “A few days ago,
you mentioned a few of the old time funnies. Who can forget some of
the others, i.e., Buck Rogers, Happy Hooligan, The Katzenjammer
Kids and Tillie the Toiler.”

“I remember singing the following song:

” ‘ Barney Google with the goo, goo, googily eyes.

Barney Google had a wife three times his size.

She sued Barney for a divorce.

Now he’s living with his horse.

Barney Google with the goo, goo, googily eyes.'”

Forgive us, but we must point out a bit of irony when we
received another e-mail on these old-time comics with one woman
admitting she “googled” a question we’d carried on “Jiggs and
Maggie” to come up with the correct answer.

Nancy H. Kania of North Fort Myers, Fla., used that computer
method to learn the daughter’s name was “Nora” – per the question
we had carried from a reader.

“The links to this comic strip provided much info and lots of
the old cartoons themselves, in color. I was gratified to learn
that many of the readers called the strip ‘Maggie and Jiggs.’
That’s how I remember it. Subtitle was always, ‘Bringing Up
Father.'”

Leo Frigo of Pensacola, Fla., also wrote to say he thought the
name was “Nora.”

Ferris Thompson of South Miami, Fla., dropped us an e-line and
suggested the daughter’s was “Magpie.” Perhaps she’s attached to
some other old comic strip?

IT’S WOODY: Deborah Weigner of Bradford writes, “Yesterday, I
was looking out my bedroom window at my residence on Woodland Lane
and noticed a strange black bird with a long neck and a red crest
on its head. I watched a little closer and noticed it was a North
American pileated woodpecker. I was amazed as he was working very
hard on an old tree in my backyard. I was told that they usually
travel in pairs to the same area every year.” This bird, of course,
is the model for Woody Woodpecker.

TV TIME: Phil Johnson of Bradford phoned a couple weeks ago now
to tell us he’d seen a Zippo on a rerun of “The Beast.”

Bradford got a prominent role, too, in a recent rerun of a
History Channel documentary about Buffalo’s Blizzard of 1976 in
which a local child was airlifted to Children’s Hospital in the
storm.