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1. about 2 hours ago on Dick Tracy

   no reason to believe the police are looking

   Turned out not to mean a thing.

   Yep.

2. about 3 hours ago on Dick Tracy

   I don’t care one way or the other as long as the wait staff does their job. The idea behind tipping is that the wait staff is attached to the restaurant for the purpose of access and knowledge of the menu, and for tax purposes, but they work for the customers as their advocate with the restaurant. So you tip them because they are your employee for the time you’re there, and you don’t tip them until after the service is rendered as an incentive for them to serve well. The trade off is that if the restaurant paid a full wage to the wait staff and they weren’t tipped, the food would cost 20% or so more than it would otherwise and the wait staff wouldn’t have the incentive to serve the customers well being an advocate of the restaurant to the customers. It’s like adding gratuity onto every bill, not just the groups of 10 or more. You don’t just see what percentage of gratuity you’re paying.

3. about 3 hours ago on Dick Tracy

   I live in the rural South and originally come from the rural Midwest. I’ve never seen an automat. However, they loosely remind me of the canteen service in the breakroom where I work. We have coolers with drinks, sandwiches, salads, snacks, frozen foods, and ice cream as well as shelves and pegboards for various dry foods. Get what you want and take it to the kiosk to pay for it. Microwave ovens are available for heating food. An automated coffee (and tea) maker is there as well as a filtered water tap and ice machine. We also provide electrolyte drink mixes for the factory associates during the summer. The canteen is a little overpriced, but we’re told it’s for “convenience.”

4. about 21 hours ago on Dick Tracy

   The exception might be Apparatus.

5. about 21 hours ago on Dick Tracy

   Interestingly, it doesn’t make me particularly gassy unless I make the mistake of eating it with beans. At that point I’m living outside for a while so I can run off the skeeters.

6. 1 day ago on Calvin and Hobbes

   No. He’s a teetotaler. He does have one of those really cool sofas made from a restored Coke cooler, though.

7. 1 day ago on Dick Tracy

   I like kimchi. I don’t eat it often because it stinks up the house and my wife hates it. I eat sauerkraut more often. She doesn’t like it either, but it doesn’t smell quite as bad to her. (Fermented cabbage is typically good for gut health.)

8. 1 day ago on Calvin and Hobbes

   I have a friend who has an old fashioned juke box in his man cave with a complement of old singles to call up. put something on the juke box and shoot some pool.

9. 1 day ago on Calvin and Hobbes

   “Spinning Wheel” by Blood, Sweat & Tears.

10. 1 day ago on Calvin and Hobbes

    Or the end of a whip breaking the sound barrier while the rest of the whip isn’t anywhere close.