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1. 4 days ago on Shoe

   Mwa-ha-ha-ha-hahhh!

2. 5 days ago on Shoe

   “Silence of the Lamb Chops” … when Shari Lewis got laryngitis.

3. 7 days ago on Fred Basset

   But wait! There on the horizon! It’s a bunch of small birds, led by a beagle, all wearing kepis! “Here’s the world-famous Sergeant Major of the French Foreign Legion, coming to save the day….”

4. 7 days ago on Bliss

   Considering that violin strings were traditionally made from “catgut,” the dog might like to hear that (although, if Wikipedia can be trusted on this one, it wasn’t actually the intestines of felines that were used). A TV cartoon from way, way back featured a cat who dreaded the possibility he’d be sent to “the violin factory.” At the end, he played Chopin’s Funeral March on a violin, then fell backwards into a violin case that closed on him….

5. 8 days ago on Adam@Home

   When I Googled it, the consensus seemed to be that it originally referred to tucking the long skirt of a tunic or robe into your belt (known as a girdle before that became an undergarment) so all that fabric wouldn’t get in the way while you did something such as fighting, running away, heavy manual labor, etc. Now it just means getting ready for something difficult.

6. 9 days ago on Fred Basset

   Waiter, there’s a Yorkshire terrier in my soup!

7. 12 days ago on Fred Basset

   “Grape juice plus,” as Zira called it in Escape from the Planet of the Apes (1971).

8. 15 days ago on Baldo

   “There’s somethin’ weird in the fridge today; / I don’t know what it is; / Food I can’t recognize.

   “My roommate won’t throw a thing away; / I guess it’s probably his. It looks like it’s alive,

   “And livin’ in the fridge!”

   — Weird Al Yankovic, “Livin’ in the Fridge,” 1993

   A later passage in the song includes the words, “You can’t stop the mold from growin’….”

9. 15 days ago on Adam@Home

   Odds bodkins, art thou saying that ye cartoonist be wrong? Heresy and blasphemy! Burn @gammaguy at ye (Monty) python snake!

10. 17 days ago on Fred Basset

    I’m pretty sure I’ve quoted this here before, but I read a story in which a fellow remarked that he’d heard early March wasn’t the best (“most salubrious”) season in England. When asked what was, he replied, “Someone told me once that it was August 23, if I recall correctly. But it may have been July 26.”