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1. 3 days ago on Calvin and Hobbes

   It is recommended that people that squeamish should try to avoid having kids. There will be many events like this on the road to their adulthood.

2. 3 days ago on Non Sequitur

   Also, James Thurber’s short story “Interview with a Lemming” was published on March 3, 1941 and assumes the reader has prior knowledge of the original story, which was at least 100 years old by then. Disney did not originate the story.

3. 11 days ago on Pearls Before Swine

   I’m sure I’ve just had more practice. I’ve been sewing since 1959. There are some great videos on YouTube showing how to add pockets to a side seam.

4. 11 days ago on Pearls Before Swine

   I add pockets to every garment I make, even if they’re not part of the original design. I’ve never found them to be particularly tricky. I worked for a few months in a sweatshop about 50 years ago. I had to put bound ticket pockets in the inside lining of suit coats. Now THAT was some tricky sewing.

5. 15 days ago on Pearls Before Swine

   That reminds me of a jr. high teacher I had. All his pop quizzes had 10 questions. When he couldn’t think of that many he would throw in the question: Who is buried in Grant’s tomb? Even though he asked the question frequently there were still a lot of kids who got it wrong every time, figuring it was a trick question.

6. 19 days ago on FoxTrot Classics

   That doesn’t sound right to me. I used to be a professional photographer with my own darkroom. I don’t remember what my chemicals cost exactly—I could go to my old records and look it up, but I don’t want to—but it runs in my mind that they weren’t particularly expensive.

7. 19 days ago on Doonesbury

   That’s what I was thinking. Lunch for only one?

8. 20 days ago on FoxTrot Classics

   In 2003 tablets and e-readers weren’t a thing yet. You could get quite a crick in the neck from reading that long of a document on the computer screen.

9. 20 days ago on Baby Blues

   For some of us it’s natural. I’m a 74 year old woman and my hair is only gray at the temples. Neither my mother or her mother had gray hair at 75. It’s genetic.

10. 23 days ago on B.C.

    Beware of robo-callers whose message starts, “Hello, are you there?” I get those all the time. Same voice, same inflection — obviously a recording. I never pick up. It’s a scam and they are trying to get you to say “Yes.”