Recent Comments

1. almost 2 years ago on Get Fuzzy

   Ma Bell is abandoning all copper lines that are not currently in use. Once a line is disconnected, they will not reconnect copper. They will only install fiber if available (not at my new house) or cellular (except the equipment wasn’t available) so I ended up with a Consumers Cellular cell-to-landline converter box for my landline. Internet is just as bad – choice of cell or dish, neither cheap and both go haywire in bad weather. Cable company won’t run 600 feet of line to connect me.

2. almost 6 years ago on Cathy Classics

   I get my grouch-ification shots at the local tavern!

3. almost 8 years ago on Frazz

   ‘Red Right Returning’ – when you SEE red, you GO right, whether the red is a fixed buoy or another ship. If you see red on a ship, it is moving from your right to your left because you are seeing its left side. You GO right to miss it by going past its stern. As you both approach a common point, it is on your right so it has right of way to go through the common point first.

4. about 8 years ago on Frazz

   MiHorn, it’s my understanding that under Indiana law, all schools start the first week of August.

5. over 8 years ago on For Better or For Worse

   Was it W C Fields that said to never do today what you can put off until tomorrow?

6. over 8 years ago on Cathy Classics

   I’m about to retire after 43 years of preparing tax returns for a living. My bosses would never fire a client unless they didn’t pay, and even then they strung them along for multiple years many times before they did. Their thinking (I guess) is that the fired client might bad-mouth the firm and they might miss getting another client. Glad I’m retiring!

7. over 8 years ago on Lola

   An old friend (now deceased) was banned from one of those machines in several different locations because she could empty it in a couple of hours or less. She’d go home with big bags of stuffed animals that she’d then give to people in nursing homes, etc. I still miss her …