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1. 3 days ago on The Buckets

   No rotary dial? Where do the kids think the phrase “dial tone” came from?

2. 4 days ago on Wallace the Brave

   Love this!

3. 5 days ago on Luann

   Blood donors saved my life. Thank you to all who donate, and thank you Evanses for highlighting them.

4. 6 days ago on Doonesbury

   Shrank, not shrunk, no matter what the name of that movie was years ago (should have been “Honey I Shrank the Kids.”) Shrank!

5. 9 days ago on JumpStart

   There was a couple in San Jose who made the news this past week because they found out there was a 40’ deep uncapped well below the living room in their condo! The HOA board refused to do anything about it and lied repeatedly about it. They eventually had a sinkhole—don’t walk in that room—and a record-breaking judgment against the HOA, which could have fixed the problem immediately for far far less than the mess it turned into.

6. 10 days ago on The Buckets

   Shel Silverstein had a poem where everyone asked a guy what was in his box… Fond memories of reading it to my kids. Thanks!

7. 10 days ago on Frazz

   I saw a firenado while driving across Nevada. You really really do not want one of those coming near you. The fire was on both sides of the freeway, thankfully at a bit of a distance, and there were hundreds of firemen working it. I was surprised the freeway was open.

8. 10 days ago on For Better or For Worse

   We went to a timeshare sales pitch once. Nice drive of about 90 minutes on a nice day to a lakeside retreat in New England. The sales guy started off with saying, I just spent nine months in the hospital recovering from a car accident. It’s great to be alive. So, if you guys just want the free microwave (it was a very cheap one but hey), just take it and go. He wasn’t going to sweat it, he didn’t sweat anything anymore, basically. We said, Nah, we’re curious; we’d like to see the place. So we got a tour of the resort, thought it was nice—but we knew we were moving across the country soon and there was no way. We’d just thought a day of driving through the back roads etc would be a good almost-last memory of living there. We liked the resort, we liked the salesman and wished him all the best. And then we took our free microwave and went home.

9. 15 days ago on Rose is Rose

   This took me straight back to the moment of the cardboard box Dad drove over when I was a kid that got wedged under the car and caught on fire.

10. 15 days ago on Stone Soup

    I got a note from a teacher once about my kid in middle school and told him I was going to come sit in his classes with him. Sent a note to the teacher (not through him) of what I’d told him. She told me, Most. Favorite. Parental. Response. Ever! and that he’d been an absolute angel ever since.