Recent Comments

1. 2 months ago on For Better or For Worse

   It is called Boxing Day because, in the UK, delivery people (Dustmen, Milkmen, Paper carriers, etc.) used to go round on December 26th asking for a “box” (a monetary annual gift). I was still going in the 1940s and 1950s when I was a child and teenager in London. Noting to do with charity for the poor, I’m afraid. I suppose the name still lingers on in the Commonwealth countries.

2. 3 months ago on Get Fuzzy

   Actually, he would be “Sir Stephen.” The problem would be mors acute with Duke Ellington.

3. 4 months ago on Baby Blues

   Is it just me or do the sidewalks in their town float above a body of water?

4. about 4 years ago on Get Fuzzy

   It is called an “infix” as in “fan-bloody-tastic!”

5. over 4 years ago on Get Fuzzy

   It’s “boracic” meaning broke not ‘brassic.’ British slang for broke is “skint.” Skint rhymes with “boracic lint” (a sort of medicated bandage)—hence “boracic” (pronounced ‘boreassik’). Cheers.

6. over 9 years ago on Too Much Coffee Man

   “—-incensed …”

7. over 13 years ago on Get Fuzzy

   Chimpanzees are not monkeys; they are apes.

8. about 15 years ago on Lio

   The Tribune is a ghastly right-wing rag that has become even worse by axing “Lio” “Get Fuzzy” and “Sylvia.”