Well, I'm sure glad we made it within the 48-hour time limit since I'd have hated to miss this one

! Sometimes 5 days will go by before I have a chance to look in on the board or Web-Ed's mailbox, which is unfortunate as problems could go undetected, but that's the way things are (how I long for a peaceful retirement when perhaps the pace will slow down a bit, but I don't know that it will ever happen).
Anyway, before getting to the interesting question of our gang's demographics, let's concentrate on the drawing for a moment. It has all your usual strengths, Dan, so age doesn't seem to be getting to you as far as your art goes: excellent OTK position, nice big fanny on the spankee, happy-looking spanker (who can blame him?

), subtle yet effective coloring (in your more recent cartoons, not the B & W ones decades ago, obviously), etc. B00m should like Miss Lucas's red hair while I like her red bottom

.
Blackboards and erasers were certainly the rule for all of us during our schooldays, and I well remember students having to clap them together (also using the
board cleaner, which looked like a long eraser, to clean the chalk residue from the board). I don't remember having any spanking fantasies along these lines however. When I started kindergarten, birthday spankings were still given in class (I gave one to a girl, which was terrific fun even back then

). Then when I was about 12 we moved to a school where the "board of education" did not refer to the trustees responsible for school governance but to a wood paddle. This destroyed me completely in a certain way, and I fantasized endlessly about seeing girls getting paddled, female teachers getting whacked with their own paddles, superheroines bending over for swats with the paddle (you all get the idea

). I'm afraid after that, any "clapping erasers" fantasy would have seemed tame indeed.
Of course I wasn't the only one. Most of you are basically OTK spankos, with that position (and usually the hand as implement) being an important ingredient in the overall spanking fantasy and experience. But if you've ever wondered why on earth there are so many videos out there in which a paddle (usually a wooden paddle too) is used, this is basically why. Obviously the paddle is used in some homes and in some other situations, but in our day, its use in schools was quite common and it certainly affected a lot of young spankos and may even have created a few.