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1. 3 days ago on Crabgrass

   You didn’t need any siblings – I had none growing up – you just needed to be “uncivilized” enough to enjoy inflicting pain on friends and neighbors – I have a cousin that refused to play the game and he grew up totally rejecting violence – I fully expect him to reveal himself as a serial killer with a back yard or basement full of bodies – but so far – nothing! he’s a marriage counsellor for petes sake and in his late 60s so he may NEVER REVEAL HIS true NATURE – but I keep expecting – he has no bad habits AT ALL – DOESNT SMOKE, DOESN’T DRINK – DOESNT SWEAR – MARRIED TO HIS HIGHSCHOOL SWEETHEART – TEACHES SUNDAY SCHOOL -sheesh…

2. 6 days ago on Stone Soup

   I concede the point, but I would also point out that Jan has obviously NEVER Seen the results of a “broken” C.R.T. IN THE FLESH those tubes were “filled” with vacuum and made quite the mess when they were broken – the “implosion” was ALWAYS quite spectacular, a few glass shards in the corner of the table or floor were NOT what it looked like – I speak from experience …

3. 6 days ago on Stone Soup

   If you look closely, it is NOT one of those “tube type” monstrosities but a fairly modern “television” of the flat screen variety – the broken glass on the floor indicates that, as well…

4. 6 days ago on Non Sequitur

   I have never understood why it’s referred to as “reality” television since it has NO relation to “reality” at all…

   My wife was “briefly” addicted to " the biggest Loser" which supposedly was about people losing weight, but I referred her to various articles about the show and now there was nothing “real” about the living nor their weight loss and how most regained all their weight over time and point out that most people can accomplish weight loss if constantly monitored – but that “reality” doesn’t work that way over time- and as a registered nurse she should know that – she admitted I was right but the fantasy is fun.

   There is a reason that all “successful” women’s magazines are an equal mix of diet plans and dessert recipes and that every “successful” male program has virile males attracting beautiful females and every successful “reality” program has vieerings that think that "I could do that, too…

   We live in a fake world of UNREALITY where unreality is not ONLY possible, but probable – Trump is not a fake in most people’s world he is how his minions would LIKE their world to work – with all the money in the world and NONE of the “nasty” realities of reality – Donnie John is not reality, he is the antithesis of reality…

5. 10 days ago on Crabgrass

   Mike, the “fun” ensues because “sitting” in the backseat of the family auto is boring after the first five minutes and “smacking” your seatmate helps to relieve the tedium…

   And besides, you KNOW that your Brother/Sister/Cousin/Neighbor really deserved it, anyway…

   As long as we were fairly quiet about it, the grown-ups never stopped the action, thereby teaching the kids a very important lesson – all thing were allowed – as long as we were “Quiet” about it…

6. 10 days ago on Crabgrass

   In my youth it was “four-hole” Buicks and “three-star” Pontiacs – the idea was SOMETHING you could slug your brother, sister or cousin while calling out…

7. 10 days ago on Daddy's Home

   I remember “Queen for a Day” and never could understand the female breaking down over a new clothes washer – I have a somewhat clearer understanding of human nature these days, and the lives of quiet desperation most people lead, but I STILL find it “unseemly” to weep over a “thing”…

8. 10 days ago on Prickly City

   “Contrition” does NOT INDICATE never doing something again – it merely indicates knowledge of “incorrectness”…

9. 10 days ago on Speed Bump

   I like your answer, Dobber, much better than the one the Reverend gave me all these years ago – unfortunately it’s much too late to correct the problems his unfortunate bit of stupidity caused – and anyway, over the years I’ve seen too much evidence that contradicts EVERYTHING the good reverend tried to inculcate in me and the rest of his flock to ever have a chance of what he called “redemption” – my “imagination” works well enough that I know ANYTHING would become boring after even the first thousand years or so, let alone untold millennia…

   I think the basic problem is that the majority of “believers” has no concept of exactly WHAT “IMORTALITY” really entails and can NOT actually conceive of what eternity truly means…

   The remote possibility of being able to live “forever” should scare any right-thinking person to death – literally…

   Unfortunately, I’m now old enough now that ANYTHING other than death looms more of a THREAT, than a promise if I REALLY stop and think about it…

10. 12 days ago on Rabbits Against Magic

    Since when did Donnie John start wearing a “top hat”?