Memory, ancient memory

Dragon Mood? -- letting out a "Remember?" roar

On Nov. 10, 1871, journalist-explorer Henry M. Stanley found missing Scottish missionary David Livingstone in central Africa and delivered his famous greeting: ''Dr. Livingstone, I presume?''

And more recently -- today, I heard someone say something about next Tuesday, and some ancient cog in my ancient mind turned to recall this:

Wimpy, said to the character, Bluto: "I'll have two hamburgers, for which I will gladly pay you next Tuesday."

Ahhhh, yes . . . now I remember! Good ol' Popeye and Saturday morning cartoons. All in black-and-white, I might add. That was lonnnnggg before the advent of color television.

Ah yes, the stuff of my childhood!