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1. 20 days ago on Sherman's Lagoon

   Or maybe just be a bit less obvious about eavesdropping?

2. 2 months ago on Peanuts

   Yes, the “figure” in “figure skating” comes from the compulsory figures, a.k.a. school figures, that skaters used to have to do in competition, drawing figures on the ice that the judges would then closely inspect. These showed the athlete’s skating skills and body control, but they weren’t very audience friendly, and so gradually faded in importance until they eventually disappeared.

3. 2 months ago on Stone Soup

   Why would you do that to Max?

4. 3 months ago on Stone Soup

   Back when I was in college, I worked part-time at a fast food chain named for a famous actor/country singer. Usually the sound system played instrumental versions of country classics, which was fine. But at Christmas we had to stick to just one tape playing badly “country-styled” versions of Christmas carols. Fake Southern accents, too much vibrato, steel guitars all over the place. On a ninety minute loop. For six weeks. I got REALLY good at tuning it out. And that means I can tune out background music basically anywhere now. Feels like a superpower.

5. about 1 year ago on Fowl Language

   The job of the first child is to teach you to be a parent.The job of the second child is to make sure you understand everything you learned was wrong.

6. over 1 year ago on [Deleted]

   See how he’s hugging the pillow? I think he’s not entirely OK with it.But he has loving people around him, and a more stable home than he had with his parents. He’ll get through this.

7. over 2 years ago on [Deleted]

   On the bright side, at least they’re playing other teams of hormonally challenged thirteen-year-olds.

8. over 4 years ago on Doonesbury

   Of course, BD originally joined the Army to get out of a term paper…. which maybe wasn’t the smartest thing to do at the time.

   But that was so long ago it’s almost another universe.

9. over 7 years ago on Doonesbury

   In “The Great Gatsby”, one of Gatsby’s guests remarks to the narrator that Gatsby took this a step further and actually bought the real books. But anyone who cared to look closely could see he’d never read any of them, as the ends of the pages were still uncut.

10. over 10 years ago on Stone Soup International Sundays

    Joan! Tell Holly about how the Industrial Revolution made clothing cheaper, and was the first step in making fashion affordable for ordinary people! That might actually interest her in a way the development of the steam engine won’t.

    (OK, so Joan can’t hear me because she’s a comic strip character. This is for parents and teachers who might be struggling with a Holly of their own.)