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1. 7 days ago on For Better or For Worse

   When my parents took a trip to Mexico, my dad came back crowing about all the bargains he’d gotten on gold and silver jewelry. After he passed, we inherited it. When we took it to have it appraised, literally none of it was actually gold or silver.

2. 11 days ago on Luann

   It looks like she ended up with Bernice.

3. 16 days ago on For Better or For Worse

   My in-laws had a timeshare in the US Virgin Islands. When they tried to sell it, we discovered that the deed to them had never been signed. I had to get the US Attorney’s office involved to get it straightened out. They told me that stuff happens all the time. It’s a very sleazy business.

4. 20 days ago on Super-Fun-Pak Comix

   I kept waiting for the comic to load because these looked so real.

5. 20 days ago on For Better or For Worse

   No, but they can really put on the pressure when they get you in that room for the time-share pitch. I had to threaten to call the cops on one sales guy who tried to block us from walking out. It ain’t worth it.

6. about 2 months ago on Luann

   Ox is a good guy.

7. about 2 months ago on Andy Capp

   Someone should probably get Andy to the hospital.

8. about 2 months ago on Brewster Rockit

   There’s an award-winning sf short story called “Think Like a Dinosaur” wherein the transporter device, invented by a lizard-like race of aliens, does just that: create a copy of the traveler at the other end and, once “reception” is confirmed, the original is killed. In one instance, confirmation is delayed. Once it’s finally confirmed, the original, shall we say, objects to being disintegrated. Hijinks ensue.

9. about 2 months ago on Brewster Rockit

   I’ve read about a test simulation of a potential military AI a few years ago. The AI was going to call down an artillery strike on a village where there were enemy troops, but which was also full of civilians. The human commanders ordered it not to. The AI’s response was to call down an artillery strike on the commanders.

   Good thing it was just a simulation.

10. about 2 months ago on Calvin and Hobbes

    Reminds me of the armed robbery case in my county where the Defendant decided to represent himself. Prosecution witness on the stand pointed out the Defendant as the one who’d held him up. Defendant begins his cross examination with “isn’t it true you couldn’t tell who it was who held you up because I was wearin’ a mask?”

    Of course, sometimes even having a lawyer doesn’t help. In another armed robbery case, a colleague of mine had one of those clients who just would not stay quiet. When the witness testified that the masked man who held them up was wielding a black handgun, the client told his lawyer, in a whisper so loud the whole courtroom could hear, “She’s lyin’! That gun was silver!!”

    I actually was in the courtroom for the second one.