Editor’s note: We don’t have an issue this Sunday, but we’ve collected a few lighthearted reader reactions to Globe Magazine stories this year for your entertainment. (Please keep the comments coming.) You can find the crossword and Sudoku in the Metro section of today’s Globe. As always, thanks for reading!
READER REACTIONS
A rockstar run-in
Last month we looked back on the legacy of the band Boston, whose first album launched 50 years ago. The story prompted one online reader to share an encounter with another local rock star:
I remember waiting at the Watertown registry with my girlfriend to get our licenses renewed. It was 1980 (ish). The lines and wait seemed even worse than it is today. My GF says: “this sucks, what do famous people do – come here?” Almost on cue, I hear “Seth Justman” on the loud speaker system used to call the next person to get their license picture taken. I turn and see him preening his beyond shoulder length hair for the pix. Ya see!!! The keyboard player for the most famous rock band [J.Geils] in the world is here for his license. Who knew!!!
Brooklineliberal Posted 9/16/26 on bostonglobe.com
Sci-fi in Southie
Over the summer, we got our Star Wars lore wrong on a story that went behind the scenes of the Conley Terminal port in South Boston. One reader called us out:
“The gargantuan machines evoke something otherworldly, like the Empire’s military walkers in Star Wars.”
Military walkers?
How about Imperial Walkers.
Incredible1
Posted 7/22/26 on bostonglobe.com
Missed the memo
Our May story on Boston’s term paper mills of the 1970s brought back memories for some of how students cheated before the days of AI. One upstanding scholar, though, had never heard that term papers could be bought.
I was in college in the 70s.............and Now I am made aware of this:)))))))))))))))))))))))))))))
BrooklineExplorer Posted 5/25/26 on bostonglobe.com
I loved nearly every minute of single parenting – even the year my New Year’s resolution was to get at least 6 hours of sleep each night. My kids were so concerned about me as they went off to college. I was going to miss them too much! I'd be miserable! I assured them I’d miss them, but I'd be just fine. In my head, I had a long list of things I couldn't wait to do again – or for the first time. To everything there is a season!
Nicely worded. Camping has been as commercialized as Christmas and other holidays. But I write this sipping coffee from my Nespresso at our campsite 🤭
Lobsterlover26 Posted 7/20/26 on bostonglobe.com
CONNECTIONS
Dad jokes
And in response to a June Connections column on dad jokes the writer’s father told, readers replied with their own memories:
My late father also told great groaners, and yet the extended family couldn’t get enough of them, especially the younger kids, who would giggle themselves silly. That gave him the freedom to slip in the occasional zinger, as cousins and I reminisced recently with the prospect of another family reunion upcoming: Dad used to say with a laugh that at family affairs, the “Jones” branch left when the food ran out, while the “Smith” clan departed when the booze ran out! Happy Father’s Day!
This sounds like the start of a romcom where [they] actually end up together.
SouthieYuppie Posted 4/10/26 on bostonglobe.com
Or at least where the cat and lizard end up together.
Localman Posted 4/10/26 on bostonglobe.com
And finally, two comments on another failed Cupid date, this one in August, between thrill-seeking twentysomethings kind of say it all about attitudes toward dating.
Why not get to know each other a bit better before shutting the door?
Anna4 Posted 8/14/26 on bostonglobe.com
Why waste your time when you know it’s not going anywhere?
6thGenNHGal Posted 8/14/26 on bostonglobe.com
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