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1. about 8 years ago on Lay Lines

   There was also Henry Kuttner’s 1942 story, “Nothing But Gingerbread Left”, where an earworm jingle, bad enough in English and devastating in Deutsch, was weaponized against the Reich

2. over 8 years ago on Lio

   “Death and the Deathlings” is an homage, a tip-of-the-hat, to cartoonist Carol Lay, whose Lay Lines page is also on GoComics. On March 19. 2016, she ran a cartoon that showed a mother duck, leading three ducklings, looking back over her shoulder at Death and three “Deathlings” following close behind. The original image that so delighted Carol Lay fan Mark Tatulli that he referenced it in Lilo ten months later can be seen here: gocomics.com/lay-lines/2016/03/19.

3. over 9 years ago on Lay Lines

   Note to those who picked up on Army Nurse’s notion this is the start of a new story: I saw this strip when originally published elsewhere earlier this year and it’s a stand-alone. Sorry

4. over 9 years ago on Lay Lines

   @Darsan54: “Life-Line”, Heinlein’s first published story.@Night-Gaunt49: THINNER, a “Richard Bachman” novel. IN TIME (2011), Justin Timberlake, Amanda Seyfried.

5. over 9 years ago on Lay Lines

   @NightGaunt

   If it is unlikely “that any two complex snow crystals … have ever looked completely alike”, then think how even more unlikely it would be if matching snowflakes were found in two different places in the universe, at the same time, on two separate planets whose evolutionary circumstances were precisely parallel! This is story of odds -. odds, and those who would bet them - not verisimilitude.. (Though, for verisimilitude’s sake, I’m sure two distinct matching snowflake pairs were found, and no implication was made by the story that four alike snowflakes could possibly simultaneously exist.)
6. over 9 years ago on Lay Lines

   @nwdryadThank you ms dryad (or may I call you nw?); your comments are always such day-brighteners.

7. over 9 years ago on Lay Lines

   My brains came all to a simmer quick,With thought of yet a new limerick,, Then considered regardShowed the form too too hard:Twisting such rhymes made my innards sick.

8. over 9 years ago on Lay Lines

   The was an old lady named Spinner,Knit from dawn ‘til late after dinner.People said, "There’s no doubt,When her yarn’s all run out,Populations grow marginally thinner."

9. over 9 years ago on Lay Lines

   There once was a fog called Finnian’sAbout which were many opinions.Swallowed up by its hazeYou might wander for daysAnd, once out, you’d never go in again.

10. over 9 years ago on Lay Lines

    @Pedmar: You were expecting maybe “A Tale of Two Knitties”? Looking forward to what come next….