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1. about 1 month ago on Pearls Before Swine

   Hmmmm… I’ve never though of the “U” sound in Utah, union, or urine as a non-vowel sound…

   It sounds like “y”

2. about 1 month ago on Pearls Before Swine

   People learn proper phrases from reading books. Since no one reads books anymore, I can sort of understand why something ends up being changed to something it sort of resembles. Anyone familiar with it in print would not make such a mistake.

3. 4 months ago on Non Sequitur

   “I assume that Messiah is some incarnation/relation of Mephisto” Actually, Adolf Hitler died several months before Trump would have been conceived. My guess is his soul spent some time in hell, then found the perfect family to join on his return to this earth.

4. 7 months ago on Non Sequitur

   “If you’re given a choice between ax and guillotine — go guillotine”

   Actually, between the choices for most of the modern execution methods – which often seem to get botched one way or another – I’d still choose guillotine. No doubt it will be over with quickly.

5. 7 months ago on Peanuts

   One thing to remember is that at the time Peanuts was popular, there was a lot more familiarity with the Bible. In my circle of people, almost everyone went to church regularly and was thus fairly familiar with the Bible. A character like Linus quoting it would not seem as some sort of pressure tactic to convert anyone, but more as part of his theological side (and if you know anything about theologians, they definitely NOT Bible thumpers, a lot of them are more skeptical of the thing than your average true believer).

   In any case, as people have drifted away from regular church going, perhaps Linus seems more out of place these days. But I’ve never seen his character as a Bible thumper, but rather someone who is rather philosophical about life and willing to point out what has been written and leave it up to the reader to interpret.

6. 7 months ago on Pearls Before Swine

   “For all intense porpoises”

7. 7 months ago on Calvin and Hobbes

   “If Trump is so dumb, why aren’t you as rich?”

   Because I did not inherit millions from my rich father, that’s why.

8. 7 months ago on Doonesbury

   They probably wanted to know if you would obey without question.

9. 7 months ago on Pearls Before Swine

   Travelled with a couple friends to a poorer country, where meals were dirt cheap. About $1 for an meal at any given restaurant. They suggested we’d rotate who picked up the tab, which seemed fair at first. But I would only order 1 meal – they’d order about 2-3 each, “because its so cheap.” But essentially where I’d be eating only 3 meals a day, I’d be paying for 8-9 when it was my turn to pick up the check. And even though the country was cheap, I had not budgeted extra cash for meals I was not gonna eat (and there was no using credit in this place in those days).

10. 7 months ago on Wizard of Id

    If you’ve never heard the radio series for “Star Wars” which came out in the early 80’s, give it a listen. I was surprised at how good it was, despite not having any of the visuals.