Recent Comments

1. 16 days ago on FoxTrot Classics

   If it was irrational, it would be HUT √-1

2. about 1 month ago on Luann

   I thought that to be a cheerleader, you had to have a tight “end”.

3. about 1 month ago on Cathy Classics

   Dad’s innocent face and diplomatic silence!

4. 2 months ago on Luann

   Almost nobody uses cheques in the UK. We use contactless debit cards or Apple Pay, so the PIN number is only needed for large transactions.

5. 6 months ago on Frazz

   In pagan Northern Europe, when the days were shortest and there was no certainty that they would lengthen, the new year started when the days were getting longer and new life was starting, so hope was growing; if the New Year started in June, the reverse would be happening and there would be no reason to celebrate. In Anglo-Saxon England ‘Gēol’ (pronounced ‘Yule’) was the first day after the winter solstice that was perceptively longer and hence the celebration that Christianity stole. In the Anglo-Saxon calendar, our December was ‘Ærra Gēola’, which means ‘before Yule’. Our December 24th was Modraniht (Mother’s Night), where the Mothers, the female ancestral spirits that watched over their families were worshipped. Our January was called ‘Æfterra Gēola’ (after Yule’).

6. 6 months ago on Frazz

   The idea is that you make your mistakes in worksheets and homework, the grades show you what those mistakes are, so you learn from them and don’t make them in the test.

7. 8 months ago on Shoe

   Unfortunately, it’s pronounced Goch (rhymes with loch), not Go.

8. 8 months ago on Arlo and Janis

   The Incas called the moon goddess Coyolxāuhqui. Does that help?

9. 10 months ago on Arlo and Janis

   Janice, if you ever come to England, please don’t say that. Over here, the ‘fanny’ is not a euphemism for the rear, it means the female front.

10. 12 months ago on Calvin and Hobbes

    December 25 is the old Anglo-Saxon pagan midwinter festival of ‘geol’ (pronounced “yule”), following ‘modraniht’ (mothers’ night). Christianity stole it on the basis that if people were going to have a feast anyway, they might as well do it for Jesus. rather than Woden.