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1. about 5 hours ago on Wizard of Id Classics

   Just in case some younger readers don’t get this, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar is a former American basketball player. He played professionally for 20 seasons for the Milwaukee Bucks and Los Angeles Lakers in the NBA and played college basketball for the UCLA Bruins as a center. He won a record six NBA Most Valuable Player awards. And btw, he was 7 ft 2 in tall.

2. 1 day ago on The Born Loser

   Not sure if it is a coincidence, but this invokes a great song by Harry Chapin ‘WOLD’.

   “i am the morning DJ on W*O*L*D playing all the hits for you wherever you may be”

3. 2 days ago on Outland

   On September 9, 1947, the world’s first computer bug was recorded. But this was no ordinary ‘software bug’. It was an actual dead moth that caused a relay to malfunction in the Mark II Aiken Relay Calculator, an early computer at Harvard University. This first actual case of bug being found was recorded by and attributed to computer scientist Grace Hopper.

4. 2 days ago on Lio

   Is the resemblance to Calvin’s snowmen merely a coincidence or the sincerest form of flattery?

5. 4 days ago on Free Range

   This is an urban myth that has been around a very long time. Factually, there is no evidence that William Tell ever shot an apple off his son’s head nor that anyone named William Tell ever existed. It’s a fairy tale.

6. 11 days ago on Red and Rover

   I get that but we have no way to know what his intended target is… none is apparent [the house?] and he didn’t hit the snow…. i.e., something’s missing.

7. 12 days ago on Red and Rover

   Is there a joke in this?

8. 17 days ago on Free Range

   John Madden?

9. 23 days ago on The Meaning of Lila

   Seems to me she looks better with wet hair

10. 23 days ago on Rubes

    For younger readers, this references a song ‘Turn, Turn, Turn’ by the group The Byrds that was a Billboard #1 hit in 1965. It was written by Pete Seeger with the lyrics taken from Ecclesiastes 3:1-8 in the King James Version of the Bible.