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1. 11 days ago on Baldo

   Marie: ”Because I’m a lady. That’s why.”

   Toulouse: ”Oh, you’re not a lady.”

   Berlioz: ”You’re nothing but a sister!”

2. 13 days ago on The Buckets

   I immediately thought, “The boys are cats?” Meanwhile little Eddie would totally love that, but I cannot picture Toby being happy.

3. 13 days ago on Baldo

   But she loves to read, so this comic is an odd one. That child would have bookcases full of books. I send my daughter strips fairly regularly showing Gracie’s love of books.

4. 13 days ago on Arlo and Janis

   When I was in college it was the first year they required a computer course. The one I took was basically what to look for in purchasing a computer and basic history. My teacher for the class thought it was stupid. He said as long as we showed up for class every day we would get a B. We were all so clueless that everyone of us except for one thought that “software” meant the 5 1/4 inch floppy disks and “hardware” was the fancy new 3 1/2 ones. After all the old ones could bend. That was fixed during the first class discussion. To get an A we had to write a program. That one kid went around and wrote one for each of us. We didn’t have mouses. I would end up getting quite familiar with the F keys due to my English course. We had to write an essay in the computer lab once a week. Fast forward a few years and Microsoft changed everything.

5. 13 days ago on Arlo and Janis

   These are tower desktops. I have a tablet from 2014 that my girls made me get so I could Skype with them that I have used maybe 50 times. I loved seeing the girls, but a phone is easier to hold. I still use a corded phone for most calls. I was prodded into getting a smartphone a few years ago. It sits on my desk mostly unused. I got a new number for it so that I could keep my flip phone. It is only the third one I have had in over 20 years. Each time I was forced to get a new because the old one would no longer be able to connect to the network. The last time AT&T mailed me one and said I had 30 days and the one I had had (for 8 years, just like the first one) would no longer work. It is a “fancy” smart flip phone. Too bad the buttons suck. Almost all of the reviews complained about them.

6. 13 days ago on Arlo and Janis

   My old computer is from 2011 and has Win7. They said they would no longer support in back in 2020. It still gets monthly security updates even though they said those would stop as well. Chrome stopped running a few years ago. It basically said, “Nope, not gonna do it”. Firefox still runs. I knew my old computer was slow, but wow. A game site I went to daily since 2008 started updating all of their games. It was bad enough when Flash was discontinued, but the new stuff wouldn’t play at all. THAT!! is what finally broke my resolve. The new (2022) bloody thing doesn’t have a CD dive! WTH. It is a gaming computer with Win11 pro. Way more bells and whistles than I will ever use. I had to download a legacy version of Windows Media Player so I could listen to my music using something that I understood.

   Up until last month I was still using the old computer to do the bills since all of the account were registered with it and all of my screenshots of the receipts were there. It had become increasingly bothersome waiting. What used to take a couple of hours is now done in 30 minutes. I can’t bear to get rid of it since I have so many downloaded games (over 200) on it. Those play just fine.

7. 14 days ago on JumpStart

   I was watching an old episode of The Brady Bunch. Bobby and Cindy were watching the TV in the rec room and it had a remote! I looked it up and yeah, TV’s had them back then. They were just really expensive.

8. 14 days ago on Sherman's Lagoon

   He’s like the cow from Hitchhiker’s! Then there are Thor’s goats. In one of the series that I read those idiots want to be eaten as well. Actually any death is okay with them. Of course they come back the next morning.

9. 14 days ago on Baby Blues

   I have taken apart every vacuum cleaner we owned. The first time one broke it was due to a q-tip. That one had the motor burned up, so there was no saving it. I used to have really long hair, so I learned to take apart and clean the innards. I have seen where the hair was singed on the shaft of the roller. For years I wanted a Dyson…and then we got one. Those are nearly impossible to take apart. They want to force you to go to them to fix it. It didn’t even do the job fantastically better. I went back to Bissell. They sell every part on-line, even for models that were discontinued years ago. The only reason I needed to replace my Bissell was due to taking too long to put it back together. I fell ill and it sat in pieces for so long that I kind of forgot what went where. It was easier just to get a new one. Unlike Dyson’s the Bissells don’t require a bloody bank loan.

10. 14 days ago on Herb and Jamaal

    I have gotten to were I cannot lift me foot to put on my pants. Bending over is out of the question. I hate being a nuisance.