Recent Comments

1. almost 10 years ago on Drabble

   He should know better than to disturb somebody while they do their NCAA brackets.

2. almost 10 years ago on La Cucaracha

   In 1837, the Mandan tribe of the north plains was wiped out by smallpox. The disease was spread by hospital blankets which were meant to be burned but somehow ended up with the Mandan. Nobody is really sure why.

3. about 10 years ago on La Cucaracha

   Heh.

   I believe that, since it’s the cockroach talking, he means that cockroaches are the marginalized group.

4. about 10 years ago on Drabble

   Alice Kramden

5. about 10 years ago on Get Fuzzy

   It’s from The Threepenny Opera by Brecht & Weill.

   The original is ‘The Mortitat die Mackie Messer’.

   If it’s threatening in English, you should hear it in German.

6. about 10 years ago on La Cucaracha

   Heh.

   He appears to be commenting on the fact that, despite horrendous rates of juvenile diabetes, the Governors of Mississippi, Alabama and Louisiana refuse to provide even a whisper of healthcare.

   Personally, I don’t care what happens to them.

   It’s like they say in everybody’s favorite holiday movie:

   “Every time a kid in Mississippi loses a foot to diabetes, an angel gets it’s wings.”

   Y’awl.

7. over 10 years ago on Drabble

   Over the years, they’ve referenced the California Delta. Galt Burgers. Lodi.

8. over 10 years ago on La Cucaracha

   Rita Moreno is an EGOT. There are only twelve official EGOTs in the world. She has been well-honored.

9. over 10 years ago on La Cucaracha

   I would have thought that honoring Billy Joel would have been the controversy.

10. over 10 years ago on La Cucaracha

    Plastic covers are not unknown in Irish homes either. It has something to do with the cost of re-upholstering balanced against a bounty of children.