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1. about 3 hours ago on On A Claire Day

   The one single-purpose tool in Alton Brown’s kitchen (per a comment on his Good Eats show).

2. about 5 hours ago on Nancy Classics

   From a review of Skiing For Beginners (1951) by Conrad Brown: “Brown’s acknowledgements give thanks not only to Spike Mignault, the lad who posed for all the action shots, but also to Spike’s truant officer for permitting him to skip school.” (Chicago Sunday Tribune, Feb. 11 1951, Part 4 Page 5)

3. about 6 hours ago on Doonesbury

   A Lebanese postdoc I worked with in 1985 told me the fighting there at the time was just old family feuds with a new excuse.

4. about 6 hours ago on Bozo

   I think it was a still from an Electric Company bit on the impact of punctuation I saw in Weekly Reader ca 1972 that showed a girl with fishing gear and a paintbrush next to a sign saying “Keep Out? No, Fishing Allowed.”

5. about 9 hours ago on Ripley's Believe It or Not

   Jack London preferred donuts to biscuits because biscuits would freeze in your pocket.

6. 1 day ago on Heart of the City

   I’m thinking pralines.

7. 1 day ago on Crankshaft

   I’ve been reading clippings (mostly from the 1940s and 1950s about Abraham Lincoln) that came down to me from my great aunt Amy, including the backs, some with social notices like that – a fascinating look at another world.

8. 1 day ago on Crankshaft

   In “Bruno the Fishing Dog” Garrison Keillor said that the Herald Star wasn’t the news – it was just an index to the news.

9. 1 day ago on Miss Peach

   “I gotta love one man till I die …” – Oscar Hammerstein II, Show Boat

10. 3 days ago on That is Priceless

    Bio-Optic Organized Knowledge – random access, unlimited power source