Recent Comments

1. 4 days ago on Pickles

   Drawing Room, short form of Withdrawing Room, where someone could withdraw for more privacy when the main room was busy.

2. 4 days ago on Pearls Before Swine

   The USA has also been renamed the Union of Solipsistic Americans.

3. 12 days ago on Drabble

   They should have gone to an English restaurant. Saint Patrick was British, born in Birdoswald in what is now Cumbria, England. He was captured by Irish pirates, enslaved, escaped and went back to Ireland to convert them to Christianity.

4. 12 days ago on Arlo and Janis

   You do all realise that Saint Patrick is British, not Irish? He was born at Birdoswald in what is now Cumbria in England and was captured by Irish raiders and made a slave. He escaped then went back to Ireland in an attempt to civilise the Irish and convert them to Christianity.

5. 14 days ago on Frazz

   It’s from the Greek word palindromos, which means: ‘running back again’.

6. 5 months ago on FoxTrot Classics

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

7. 5 months ago on Luann

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

8. 5 months ago on Cathy Classics

   Dad’s innocent face and diplomatic silence!

9. 7 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.

10. 10 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’).