RUMORS WERE FLYING

Mona Lisa said that she also remembered a Fleer's Double Bubble riddle that she did not understand when she was a kid:

QUESTION:  What happened when the boarding house exploded?
ANSWER:      Roomers were flying!

She said that she didn't know what a "boarding house" was, or the saying "rumors were flying", so she couldn't possibly understand the connection.

I said, "We were so provincial but Mother loved Perry Como and he sang a song by that name, so I did know that reference."  Listen to Perry: