#4 DO YOU REMEMBER Joe Btfsplk, a character in Li’l Abner by Al Capp? Joe wore black, had holes in his shoes and a drippy rain cloud hovered over his head. He caused bad luck wherever he went. And speaking of bad luck, in the summer of 1945, newspaper deliverymen in NYC went on strike and some 13 million customers didn’t get the paper. As long as the strike lasted, Mayor LaGuardia read the funnies on the radio.Blog here.