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1. about 6 hours ago on Peanuts Begins

   To quote an old Warner Bros cartoon: “There’s nothing in the rule book that says an elephant can’t pitch!”

2. about 6 hours ago on Calvin and Hobbes

   Are there tigers in S. Africa? I don’t actually know.

3. about 6 hours ago on Peanuts

   We don’t have grape jelly in S. Spain. The standard jellys are peach, strawberry, raspberry and greengage. In the 90s they were putting the excess production of grapejuice into boxed juices; you’d “peach and grape nectar”, “pear and grape nectar” but no one has ever considered grape jelly.

4. 1 day ago on Peanuts

   Then you get older and realise that zero is a powerful number if it’s in the right place at the right time.

5. 1 day ago on Pearls Before Swine

   I have friends who go to the dentist twice a year religiously. Strangely enough they are always having to have work done. We go when there’s a problem and seldom have problems. I always figure, you can’t see inside your own mouth. They’ve got you flat on your back, helpless, with a light shining right in your eyes and they start digging around going, “Hmmmm…this doesn’t look good…”

6. 2 days ago on Peanuts

   Putting classes later would just mean the kids staying up later goofing around online. Their parents have to work, it’s not just “the convenience of the teachers.” The parents know better than to trust the kids to go to school at 10 when they themselves have to leave at 7 to make it to work.

7. 2 days ago on Calvin and Hobbes

   Most kids are so self-absorbed that the world is as they see it, with other people as cardboard cutouts around the edge. Sadly many adults these days never break that schema.

8. 2 days ago on Calvin and Hobbes

   Watterson, a man ahead of his time by decades. Unfortunately.

9. 2 days ago on Peanuts

   Well, Snoopy, you can’t even fly so don’t criticise him too much!

10. 3 days ago on Peanuts

    Yes, he was banned once some time back, hence the 2.0. One would think that someone who got banned wouldn’t use the same screen name, but then considering the source the answer’s in the question.