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1. over 13 years ago on New Adventures of Queen Victoria

   Boy, am I glad that I never had to think about things like that (This is continental europe speaking…).

2. about 14 years ago on Doonesbury

   jondb said:

   You can keep your freedom to bear arms!

   My opinion (off topic): only when they are at the same time obligated to arm bears. That would make hunting season so much more interesting!

3. over 14 years ago on Garfield

   If it goes on like this, jon will someday be practising marital arts :-P

   …sorry…

   BTW, the way Liz holds her left leg is a good indicator of a G-rated comic.

4. almost 15 years ago on New Adventures of Queen Victoria

   FYI, “Bieber” is not the german word for beaver (which would be “Biber”, ok, only one letter off the mark). There is no meaning to the word “Bieber” apart from names, places or rivers. However, as a native german speaker my first thought was also “beaver”, insofar the reference to the WWII mini-submarine was not really wrong. BTW, todays german army does have a armoured vehicle-launched bridge called “Biber” and in contrast to the mini-sub it is not a pre-fab coffin…

5. almost 15 years ago on Doonesbury

   @AKHenderson:

   If GT is so terrible, why do you keep coming back? This comic is satirical and political most of the time, at least on some levels. If you don’t like it, you leave it.

6. almost 15 years ago on Jim Morin

   @Fairportfan2

   Producing energy in large quantities is always more efficient than producing it in small units (like combustion engines). This advantage might be in parts eaten up by the loss in transmission and storage, but I’m fairly sure that the overall efficiency will be better.

   Apart from that, cars with modern drives will also require modern design, e.g. less weight and less unnecessary power, and this is something that just doesn’t fit into most US-brains, isn’t it?

7. almost 15 years ago on Non Sequitur

   Look, it’s a lion!

8. almost 15 years ago on Non Sequitur

   @ cdward google it, if you dare ;)

9. almost 15 years ago on Non Sequitur

   @ Phil @POPPA

   ok, I was exagerating. The shepherds did their little cameo and were alowed to go home again. But who knows, maybe they spent the next few days trying to gather their sheep again? Just thinking…

   And for Elijah and Jonah: well, I admit that running away might not be the best idea. Maybe it would be better to kindly refuse the offer. We once had an interesting discussion among young believers about Mary and her first encounter of the angelic kind (again, “Fear not!”). Soon we started to wonder if Mary was really the chosen one or only the first not to fight back too much. We even asked our priest about it and he could’t help but laugh. We weren’t even threatened with hell or something!

   Sometimes I wish the critics would just be there to witniss once in a while…

10. almost 15 years ago on Non Sequitur

    Well, I like it, even though I’m sometimes the one standing in front of the congregation, reading this very story in the Easter vigil. Nothing wrong with a good religious joke.

    It only gets offending when jokes are used as anti-religious propaganda without real background information. I’m actively roman catholic and know well enough what’s going wrong in my church, I don’t need outsiders to point their fingers.

    But as I said, jokes like this one are always welcome.

    BTW, learning from the Bible, what do you do when an angel appears and tells you not to be afraid?

    RUN!

    There is not a single occurence like this in the Bible that doesn’ mean work or trouble or both!