Recent Comments

1. about 1 year ago on Frazz

   Our version of the jingle was “when you’re down to Schlitz, you’re out of beer!”

2. about 1 year ago on Pearls Before Swine

   Blessed are the peacemakers, for they catch hell from both sides.

3. almost 2 years ago on Cornered

   One of our wedding gifts had a sympathy card on it.

4. over 2 years ago on Arlo and Janis

   For us retirees, every weekly chore seems to come around every three days.

5. over 2 years ago on The Knight Life

   Seven years ago, for my 69th birthday, my kids took me to a minor league hockey game in Des Moines. My daughter pulled some strings so that I could ride shotgun on the Zamboni. It wasn’t quite as good as getting to drive, but close.

6. over 2 years ago on Betty

   Lazy man’s load was the term my mother used. My wife gets mad when I use it to describe her mega armloads.

7. over 3 years ago on Working Daze

   I did my first BASIC programing on a little computer made by ATARI; it was pretty simple, but it gave me a feeling of power that I could tell the machine what to do and it would do it.

8. about 4 years ago on Arlo and Janis

   About three weeks ago, we came home from the grocery store and the garage door wouldn’t open. The cause? A squirrel in the transformer. Jimmy Johnson has been looking in our windows again.

9. over 4 years ago on Frazz

   Back in my teaching days, recess duty meant that 45 degrees in the fall had the kids huddled up by the building; same temperature in the spring had them begging to take off their coats.

10. over 4 years ago on Candorville

    I live in the city with the offending Tyson plant, so I knew the story. I didn’t realize how far it had spread.