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1. about 11 years ago on Bloom County

   or a god

2. about 11 years ago on For Better or For Worse

   @Night-Gaunt49MY memory, too, of the general store with the penny-candy bins: why did you add ‘49’ to your username? Mine is because I had been throwing knuckleballs (on and off) for twelve years when Tim Wakefield (former RED SOX great)was born on my birthday.

3. about 11 years ago on Pearls Before Swine

   Obsolutely!

4. about 11 years ago on Pearls Before Swine

   obsolutely!

5. about 11 years ago on Andy Capp

   Ay, mate, but perhaps it wasn’t GOOD beer.

6. about 11 years ago on Pickles

   I learned, from Peter Washington, who owned property at the end of the cove south of our house, that his mule knew how to traverse a hill in the lane: it took a diagonal path, up or down. I use that approach every time I take a full recycling can or trash can down MY driveway to the street for collection.

   Peter’s comment was, “Mule knows”.

7. about 11 years ago on Pickles

   Dhyan Singh, our cook in 1969-1970 Rajasthan, India, could use a paring knife that he had bought on the used-utensils market, sharpen in on the marble counter in the kitchen, and cut potatoes so thin that when he put them into a karhai with Dalda, he produced ‘crisps’ that swelled!We were very impressed!

8. about 11 years ago on Pickles

   In 1969-’70 Rajasthan, India, we saw small children running around in the desert with little on but a rudimentary hat with a robust flap that covered their upper backs.

9. about 11 years ago on Ziggy

   No, you could have ‘gene’ or ‘eric’.

10. about 11 years ago on Wizard of Id

    And add to that the health-care benefit that they deny to ‘the rest of us’: single-payer; comprehensive…

    Thank you, Big Insurance and the T. P!