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1. about 7 years ago on Clay Bennett

   Probably everybody realizes by now those were Bounty® brand towels — “The Quicker Picker-Upper.” Throw enough of those babies over PR, and the floods will be sucked right up.

2. about 7 years ago on Jack Ohman

   A cry from the desert …

3. about 7 years ago on Mike Luckovich

   Tiptoe through the two lips…

4. about 7 years ago on Jeff Danziger

   Not a problem. They each have two brains: A small nearly useless one in their head; and a much larger, ever active one in the area of their wallets.

5. about 7 years ago on Steve Breen

   Unless someone in Trump’s administration puts him in a tub filled with packages of ice, Tillerson as Secretary of State is DOOMED.

6. about 7 years ago on Robert Ariail

   Very clever! By the way, several websites have collections of “Burma Shave” rhymes.

7. about 7 years ago on Michael Andrew

   As Curly of The Three Stooges said in one of their comic episodes, “He called us idiots … heh, heh … We’re not idiots — we’re MORONS.”

   It’s interesting that certain influential psychologists classified those they diagnosed as mental deficients as Morons, Imbeciles, orIdiots — in decreasing level of IQ. This must of been in public consciousness in the 1930s and 1940s, and a source of cruel humor in general society. The following link is very interesting. Note that “morons” were considered the greatest “threat to progressive culture”:

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   http://eugenicsarchive.ca/discover/connections/53480acd132156674b0002c3

8. about 7 years ago on Two Party Opera

   In that era you couldn’t have great international prestige unless you had colonies. Philippines, Guam, and Puerto Rico weren’t ideal, but they were something to show off.

9. about 7 years ago on Two Party Opera

   Brian, you do amazing illustrations. Long ago, I used an early version of Adobe Illustrator and dreamed of someday doing these types of things. There were very slow general use computers for graphics in those days!

10. about 7 years ago on Michael Andrew

    (— You must learn to trust our president! Working in the mode of a modern chief executive, he’s just getting us used to the concepts of a slight nuclear war with North Korea, global economic collapse, and climate change effects. It’s the method of spooning out small doses of poison, then incrementally increasing the dosages to toughen us up. Pretty soon we’ll be munching on (politically speaking) arsenic-seasoned deep-fried asbestos fast food … and … LOVing it! (— (—