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1. about 15 hours ago on Shoe

   In the Army, in the early ’80s, the heaters we used in our tents produced lots of soot. We learned how bad it was when we blew our noses and the Kleenex came away black….

2. about 15 hours ago on Sherman's Lagoon

   I think I’d love Hawthorne cooked with a touch of garlic and lemon butter…. I can’t really imagine putting up with him any other way.

3. 1 day ago on Peanuts

   According to a strip from 14 March 1960, it’s “whirlydog.”

4. 3 days ago on Peanuts

   Musk blathered something about the SSA keeping people who’d been born 100+ years ago on its rosters. It was one of his “fraud and waste” claims, and the debunking article I read indicated payments weren’t being made to those presumably-dead people. I think that @ah-hee is being sarcastic….

5. 3 days ago on MythTickle

   There’s a 1988 novel set in Star Trek as a prequel to the Original Series, with Captain Kirk’s father as the main character. (Star Trek: Final Frontier by Diane Carey.) It comes out that Romulans are very finicky about separating their food like that – and one of the personnel in what isn’t Starfleet just yet has the same quirk, suggesting he’s a Romulan mole. And so are you! And ME!

6. 4 days ago on Over the Hedge

   In English for a long time, “proper” spelling was whatever the person writing felt like, and his/her choice of spelling sometimes changed within the same document — perhaps even within the same paragraph.

   “A foolish consistency,” Ralph Waldo Emerson pontificated, “is the hobgoblin of little minds…. With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do.” — 1841 Essay on Self-Reliance

   (Emerson needed a nun to smack his knuckles with a ruler for that statement.)

7. 4 days ago on MythTickle

   I don’t know about originally, but I saved a copy of this in February of 2019, and it was already marked as a classic.

8. 11 days ago on Phoebe and Her Unicorn

   Or the nameless city on the “fabled nightmare plateau of Leng” in Antarctica, at the mountains of madness (as discovered by an expedition from Miskatonic University in 1931)….

9. 13 days ago on Phoebe and Her Unicorn

   “It’s not good to have too much order. Unless you have some chaos, there’s no room for new things to grow.” — 30 June 2014; possibly my favorite Sam Starfall quote ever.

10. 15 days ago on Nick and Zuzu

    “Leave me out of this.” (Whatever “this” may be.)