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1. 1 day ago on Ripley's Believe It or Not

   Okay, to save everyone from the drudgery of Googling it, here is the story.

   The Wiseman family were cleaning out the freezer of their deceased grandmother and found the biscuit along with a note indicating it was made in August of 1940. The family believes that the biscuit was saved by the grandmother-in-law of Wiseman’s great-uncle Harold. The biscuit was likely saved for nostalgic reasons.This is not the end of the biscuit’s story though. The family moved the biscuit to another member of the family’s freezer, so in another half century or so, there may be yet another RBION story on this.

   I now return you to your regularly scheduled program.

2. about 2 months ago on Andy Capp

   After checking on Google maps, it seems that @Botulism Bob and @swguthrie are both correct. The problem seems to lie in the fact that the statue does not have an address, which makes sense since it isn’t a building. From what I see, it is next to a park bench that is located between these two addresses, so going to either would bring you within eyeshot of the statue

3. about 2 months ago on For Better or For Worse

   A spare is a slot in your course schedule where you have no assigned class. It is supposed to be used as study time, usually in the library.

   Since this is a comic strip and the situation must be used to set up the storyline, I have ignored the error. A spare would not be the first class of the morning, because the first class, also known as homeroom, is when the teachers take attendance for the day and send a list of absentees to the office to have a list quickly printed up and distributed to the rest of the teachers so when they take attendance in their classes during the rest of the day, they know if a student is away that day or just skipping their class.Also, spares usually only end up on a student’s schedule toward the last year or two of high school, usually because they have already taken and passed all the mandatory subjects (such as History, Geography, etc.) that are done within a year or two and only have subjects left that span the five years in high school (Languages, Mathematics, etc.) and aren’t interested in any other classes that may be available.

   So, a first-year student shouldn’t have a spare; if they do, it would not be the day’s first class. FYI, I am Canadian but I do not live in Ontario, so perhaps they did things differently there back then.

   I realize you only asked what a spare was, but this detail has been bugging me since the story arc began. I hope I didn’t make it confusing with my above-and-beyond explanation. ☺

4. about 2 months ago on Pearls Before Swine

   This is Pearls Before Swine, not Animal Farm (“No animals shall wear clothes, except pigs”) ☺

5. about 2 months ago on For Better or For Worse

   Even though you don’t see many people wearing them these days, I would have thought some commenters here would be old enough to recognize a trench coat when they see one. I have to admit, the colourist did a bad job on it, but it has all the telltale signs; such as wide, tapered lapels, epaulets on the shoulders and a belt to cinch it closed on those blustery days/evenings.

6. about 2 months ago on Ripley's Believe It or Not

   I don’t think it was an Olympic pool since they are 50 metres long and Pearlsbs said an article on it stated the pool was 25 metres long.

7. 2 months ago on B.C.

   I can’t say how often it happens to others, but it has happened to me enough times to finally learn to place the rake on the ground with the tines facing downward. That way, when I step on it, all it does is bury the tines into the grass (or dirt).

8. 3 months ago on Ripley's Believe It or Not

   I Googled “floating on the rhine to get home” and it came up with several stories and YouTube videos about this. Try doing this search and you will wonder no more. ☺

9. 3 months ago on B.C.

   You were right on the nose with that joke! ☺

10. 3 months ago on The Argyle Sweater

    And here I thought a gender reveal entailed a park and a trenchcoat.