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1. 1 day ago on Phoebe and Her Unicorn

   “…and Morgul, the friendly Drelb.”

2. 4 days ago on Frank and Ernest

   On 15 November 1997, Frank and Ernest did a one-panel in which a flying saucer landed, and dinosaurs came out. “Hello, everybody! We’re back! …Hello, hello…!” (Yes, I know a TV cartoon in ’87 used a similar concept.)

3. 4 days ago on Frank and Ernest

   He and his wife were hiding behind the furniture in Dilbert’s place. Their species was “Nobodysaurus.”

4. 10 days ago on Phoebe and Her Unicorn

   Not meaning anything is NOT the same as not mattering.

5. 10 days ago on Peanuts

   A Frank and Ernest strip from 1978 – meaning it isn’t available on this site unless it was later redone – showed a newscaster announcing, “The streets were quiet today in Tokyo, Athens, and Grand Rapids. —Elsewhere, fighting continued…”

6. 12 days ago on Baldo

   A story I ran across once (I can’t recall the author, title, or most of the plot) included a bit of one character worrying aloud that when he died and appeared before God for judgment, God wouldn’t ask him, “Why weren’t you Moses? Why weren’t you Isaiah?” Instead, the question would be, “Why weren’t you [the character’s name]?”

7. 12 days ago on Shoe

   Some cartoon – I think it was The Far Side – showed Holmes working out Watson’s taxes for him. “Brilliant deduction, Holmes!” Watson exclaimed.

8. 12 days ago on Phoebe and Her Unicorn

   By the time I was eighteen, the longest I’d ever lived in any one house was approximately five years … and I was on my fifth residence. We moved around a lot; it was usually “never again see people from the old neighborhood” moving, so I came to consider “friendship” a very transient thing.

9. 14 days ago on Sherman's Lagoon

   In Terry Pratchett’s Small Gods (1992), the god Om incarnated as a tortoise. An ongoing joke was that he’d hear people planning to eat him, with some variation on the words, “There’s good eating on one of those….”

10. 14 days ago on Over the Hedge

    “He who sits in the heavens laughs; the Lord has them in derision.” Psalm 2:4

    So, from the horse’s mouth: It’s a biting sense of humor, but it’s there.