[Verginius Rufus]

Back when Halley's Comet came around in the 1980s, there was a Family Circus cartoon where the dad is showing the kids the comet with a telescope, and one of them asks him, "Is that all a comet does?"

[yarddog]

I am trying to remember Halley’s comet. I was living in Western Kansas at the time. I remember that I bought an inexpensive telescope just to watch it but don’t think I ever even saw it.

Whatever, I do remember being disappointed.