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1. about 10 hours ago on That is Priceless

   Annie Get Your Gun, “Doin’ What Comes Natcherly”. It was me as hotelier Foster Wilson she and sibs were singing it to, just before I backed her in a shooting match against Frank Butler, in a 2011 production.

2. 1 day ago on That is Priceless

   Almost missed the Lake District last September because our captain had trouble parking at Liverpool. Did end up with just an hour less time.

3. 3 days ago on Cleats

   It’s the only way I like organ meat.

4. 3 days ago on Mutt & Jeff

   © in Panel one says 1993

5. 3 days ago on That is Priceless

   “The hussy!” – Aunt Eller looking in Will’s “Little Wonder,” Oklahoma!

6. 4 days ago on Pickles

   A Backspace key is what I keep wanting.

7. 4 days ago on Brevity

   There’s a meme out there identifying various bees and wasps as friends. Yellow jackets are “Friends with anger issues.”

8. 4 days ago on Brewster Rockit

   Mad once had “If Comic Strip Characters Were Psychoanalyzed.” Beetle Bailey was one patient, concerned about always screwing up, and was advised to change his attitude. He did so so successfully that, as Sarge told him, the Army had taken notice. “You mean they’re promoting me to Corporal?” “No, they’re sending you to Viet Nam.”

9. 4 days ago on That is Priceless

   Have seen ads for “Bear Whiz” beer. (DID trust that they were joking – did taste better than that – when we bought some wine in the French Pyrenees called “Pipi du Marmot”.)

10. 4 days ago on Ripley's Believe It or Not

    Reminded of one of my favorite I Love Lucy scenes. She’s been arrested in Marseilles for passing counterfeit francs. She only speaks English; the desk sergeant only speaks French. But one of the gendarmes also speaks German, and they have a drunk who speaks German and Spanish (Ricky’s native tongue) in custody. So you have this string of translations going back and forth, with emotions being exaggerated at each exchange.