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1. about 1 month ago on Arlo and Janis

   My wife and I love BBC programs, but we have to have close caption on, to not miss anything. Even then, we have to pause it to discuss some of the hilarious figures of speech the Brits use.

2. about 1 month ago on Arlo and Janis

   @bobbyferrel I always thought it was Oscar Wilde. But apparently there are other contenders.

3. about 1 month ago on Pearls Before Swine

   That reminds me of the old joke about the student who was trying to remember the names of poets using image association. To remember “Bobby Burns” he pictured an old English policeman, a bobby, who was on fire. Seemed an easy way to remember the name. Unfortunately, when he took the exam and to got the question whose answer should have been “Bobby Burns”, he wrote “Robert Browning”.

4. 3 months ago on Frank and Ernest

   I think this is the first time I have seen Frank and Ernest with a PG-13 style joke. Usually their comic is very family friendly. I don’t mean that to be a harsh criticism, it just surprises me.

5. 4 months ago on Edge City

   Didn’t your mama ever teach you, “if you can’t say something nice, don’t say anything at all!”

6. 6 months ago on Frazz

   Jef’s comics are always good. But sometimes they are just brilliant. They make you think first, then they make you laugh. I know Mo Rocca from his guest panel appearances on “Wait, Wait, Don’t Tell Me”, but haven’t read any of his books. I will add them to my list. If you haven’t read any of Frank McCourt’s books, my favorite is Teacher Man. Since I am a parent, I have read the whole “Little House” series to my children.

7. 7 months ago on FoxTrot Classics

   Although it is true that a moth was stuck in a relay in the Mark II computer in Harvard and ended up being taped in the log book, and the writer made a joke about it being the first actual bug in a computer, the term “bug” for an engineering fault had been around for a long time before that. It was in use in Thomas Edison’s time in the 1870’s. Here is an interesting article about it, just to source one: >

8. 10 months ago on Frazz

   “The secret to happiness is low expectations.”

9. 10 months ago on Frank and Ernest

   I love the Frank and Ernest comics’ love of puns and play on words. My only criticism, if it is fair to call it that, is the way the comic is drawn sometimes makes the joke harder to see. The joke here is that they are looking at a Building Directory, where each office has an office number associated with it. The last one is the Accountant, and his office number is the sum of all the other office numbers! Just like you expect an Account to have! Excellent joke! But it would have been easier to see the joke if they had formatted the Building Directory so the lines were written in block letters or some font you would expect on a Building Directory, instead of the chicken scratch font they used. As a result, it looks like a handwritten sign instead of the Building Directory, and the joke is lost.

10. 11 months ago on Doonesbury

    Just yesterday I was driving along one of our county roads and noticed four turkey vultures perched in a tree together. So I looked around, and there it was, a dead deer on the side of the road. The vultures were just waiting for traffic to clear so they could begin to feed off the deer. It is not a pleasant part of nature, but a necessary one. As for the business context of the comic, if a company is going belly-up, they should be selling off their assets in order to pay back their creditors. Creditors who lend money to companies so they can do business are taking a risk, sure, but if companies never paid back what they owe, then there would be no creditors. Nobody would be in that business.