Recent Comments

1. about 4 hours ago on Get Fuzzy

   Baseball is actually derived from a British game called rounders.

2. about 1 month ago on Wizard of Id

   Do leaves really fall this early in the US, or is it just a cartoon thing? Here in Scotland most of them don’t fall for another month.

3. 2 months ago on Shoe

   Absolute bilge. Nearly all the mass shooters in the US have been either far right or apolitical.

4. 4 months ago on Crumb

   Not as easily as those of a porcupine, but they do moult them.

5. 4 months ago on B.C.

   There have always been hints that this is the case.

6. 5 months ago on Speed Bump

   Bay leaves are cooked in with soups and stews because they add flavour. and they also smell wonderful, but you can’t actually eat them: they’re far too leathery and bitter. It would be like trying to eat aromatic brown paper.

7. 5 months ago on Crumb

   Our cat Plush disappeared after we had a plumber in to do some work on the beth. We spent hours looking for him – and he could meow. The little sod was sitting underneath the sink, behind the panelling, listening to us calling him.

8. 5 months ago on Monty

   The famous Border collie Chaser was able to work that out. If shown a basket of objects for which she knew the names of all but one, and then told to select the [word she didn’t know], she was able to work out that the unfamiliar word must refer to the unfamiliar object.

9. 6 months ago on Pearls Before Swine

   I only see 27, but I suspect a lot of them are things not used as names here in the UK.

10. 6 months ago on The Born Loser

    Sometimes here in the UK, too. If you have lunch in Morrisons’ café a hot drink comes with unlimited refills.