Recent Comments

1. about 20 hours ago on Pearls Before Swine

   I’ve offended the nannybot with words I never considered obscene.

2. about 20 hours ago on Speed Bump

   Vinegar in place of liquid fabric softener and wool dryer balls in the dryer.

3. 2 days ago on Arlo and Janis

   I used to embroider a blue X on the corner of “my” handkerchiefs so my husband wouldn’t take them if he decided to take stuff out of the dryer. It didn’t work.

4. 2 days ago on Herb and Jamaal

   Someone said if god wants us to believe in him, all he has to do is show up.

5. 2 days ago on Non Sequitur

   Ah! Punctuation!

6. 2 days ago on Pluggers

   The “o-u-no”.

7. 4 days ago on Aunty Acid

   I’ve worked for the City of Grand Rapids as a library page, 20 hours a week, for over twenty years, and can’t join the city workers’ union because my job is considered “seasonal.” I like my job, and when I started working there, I was making more than I did working retail. At 75, I doubt that I could get another job.

8. 5 days ago on Arlo and Janis

   I knew a couple of boys who got their heads shaved every June. One haircut a year.

9. 6 days ago on Arlo and Janis

   Way back before Michigan had a 10-cent deposit on bottles and cans, the lady who owned Lutinski’s Market would give us 2 cents for every pop bottle kids brought in. She didn’t charge 2 cents on the nickel bottles of pop she sold. She also had a penny gumball machine that had a few special gumballs that we could exchange for a candy bar.

10. 6 days ago on Broom Hilda

    I “ruined” Christmas for my in-laws one year. I wrapped everyone’s present in white paper, wrote “GIFT” on the packages with a black marker, wrote “contents: something for Jane or something for Ann” and drew a fake barcode on the back. Even though the gifts were things they asked for, my sisters-in-law (women in their 20s) were not amused.