Recent Comments

1. about 3 years ago on B.C.

   A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.

2. about 3 years ago on Ziggy

   Oh, to be 50 again, and know what I know now.

3. over 4 years ago on Pearls Before Swine

   There’s a story that back in the ‘80s, when Bill Gates was already rich, he went to the store one day to buy a pint of ice cream. He stood at the check-out for several minutes as he fumbled through all his pockets. "I’m sure I had a 25¢ coupon here somewhere." Finally a big, burly guy standing behind him tossed a quarter on the counter and said, “Here, big shot, now get out of the way.”

4. about 5 years ago on B.C.

   It’s a pagan fertility rite. Goes back to the druids, at least. Celebrates the Sun moving higher in the sky after the Winter Solstice.

5. over 5 years ago on Monty

   It was the Germans, not the Nazis. The “coal scuttle” design goes back to World War I, when the warring parties discovered shrapnel. When shells were fused to explode in the air, so some of the shrapnel would be blown downward into the trenches, both sides realized their soldiers needed steel helmets for protection. The Germans followed the pattern of their traditional Pickelhaube, which actually gave greater protection to the nape of the neck. The Pickelhaube, or spiked helmet, was made from leather, so didn’t really offer much protection.

6. about 8 years ago on The Buckets

   Right. Time to start thinking outside the box.

7. about 8 years ago on The Born Loser

   “The other day upon the stairI met a man who wasn’t there.He wasn’t there again today.Oh, how I wish he’d go away.”

8. about 8 years ago on The Buckets

   It’s hard to soar with the eagles when you spend all day on the ground scratchin’ with the chickens.

9. about 8 years ago on Non Sequitur

   No, “tow the line” makes no sense. You can tow a car, you can tow a boat, you can use a line to tow a car or boat, but you cannot “tow a line.”

10. over 8 years ago on Monty

    Forgot to mention, David Koch tried to persuade him to relocate to the U.S. to work at Cato Institute, but Hayek pointed out he would not be eligible for Social Security. He would get much better benefits from the Austrian government (no embarrassment at all). Instead of offering to set up a pension/annuity for him, Koch let him go. Just as well.