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1. almost 10 years ago on Pluggers

   My grandpa could pull a nickel out of HIS ear! Alas, he took the secret of how to do this to his grave.

2. almost 10 years ago on B.C.

   Can somebody explain what the joke is here? The two plants look similar (and they are evidently peas), but this hardly qualifies as hilarity. Or is there a pun of some sort involved?

3. almost 10 years ago on Pluggers

   Husband: “What’s a pillow sham?”

4. almost 10 years ago on B.C.

   One of those strips where, if this were Pearls Before Swine, the characters would be assaulting the cartoonist for his bad puns and feeble attempts at humor.

5. almost 10 years ago on Pluggers

   Wishful thinking.

6. almost 10 years ago on Pluggers

   ,,, and sometimes pussycats.

7. almost 10 years ago on Pluggers

   And it was uphill. Both ways.

8. almost 10 years ago on Ripley's Believe It or Not

   It’s from Annals of Internal Medicine 15 May 2001. See:

   http://annals.org/article.aspx?articleid=714524

9. almost 10 years ago on Ripley's Believe It or Not

   There’s a handy wikipedia page “Faux pas derived from Chinese pronunciation” that explains it. The word “san” (umbrella) sounds like the word for loss.

10. almost 10 years ago on Ripley's Believe It or Not

    At the risk of pedantry, I should point out a glaring error in the strip, something known to anyone who has ever taken astronomy (and probably to lots of kids interested in it). “Canis Majoris” is not the name of a star. It means “of the Canis Major constellation” and would be preceded by the name of the specific star, in this case “VY Canis Majoris.” The wikipedia article on this star is worth reading.