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1. 3 days ago on Adam@Home

   My grandfather made me get a switch once when I misbehaved. The whipping wasn’t the issue. It was the long walk out to the bush and back where you reconsidered your life choices. The walk was the brutal part….and the point.

2. 6 days ago on FoxTrot Classics

   Red eyes in the flashes of digital cameras is pretty much a thing of the past with modern phones either not using a flash and resorting to low-light modes or using machine learning/AI to fix it after the picture was taken.

3. 6 days ago on Calvin and Hobbes

   There were still a lot of rotary phones in the system back then. And wall phones (a descendent of the earliest phone types).

4. 17 days ago on Calvin and Hobbes

   Nothing like raising a raging sociopath.

5. 23 days ago on Liberty Meadows

   Groovy.

6. about 1 month ago on In Security

   Of course, the implication she gave is that she would go out with a married man who is of better stuff.

7. about 1 month ago on Tank McNamara

   Good point. If that’s the case, then it’s coaching and the GM.

8. about 1 month ago on Tank McNamara

   People seem to forget that Indiana was a terrible team. That’s why they got 1st pick. And it often takes more than a single player to turn a franchise around in a team sport. When Michael Jordan first joined the Bulls, he scored a lot….and they lost a lot. It took rounding out the team with Pippen, Rodman and everyone else to make them a formidable champion.

9. about 1 month ago on Peanuts Begins

   Yes, Schulz often aged characters to catch up with others. But considering that at this age (roughly age 3), just a period of months can make a huge difference. I always considered Patty, Shermy and Violet to be the oldest with Charlie Brown a little younger, with Schroeder and Lucy younger still.

10. 2 months ago on Pearls Before Swine

    When I said “sturdy”, I was referring to the actual plug bolt itself. There are other places where the cable meets the plug head that are generally the most vulnerable for damage, regardless of the plug type (Lightning, USB-C, USB-mini or micro, etc).