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1. about 20 hours ago on Bloom County

   Lisbon, 1755.

2. 2 days ago on Bloom County

   Uncomfortably. Agonizingly. Schnozzbendingly.

3. 7 days ago on Speed Bump

   Cattle do. All of their communications are low bandwidth.

4. 9 days ago on 1 and Done

   Not likely to happen… there’s all that “Thou shalt have no other gods before me” jealousy getting in the way. Humans have been worshipping cats since early Egyptian times and we don’t seem to be giving that up any time soon.

5. 9 days ago on Over the Hedge

   He should have used silicone gel lubricant. It’s non-flammable and would have drowned out the fire, helping Santa avoid both abrasions and second-degree burns.

6. 13 days ago on 1 and Done

   But he’s not mentioning how you have to get off of your horse and lead it, because its unfinished head has left it completely blind.

7. 16 days ago on Wizard of Id

   Smoke from the castle kitchens. The lu in ch menu calls for broiled jumbo shrimp… and it’s always darkest before the prawn.

8. 16 days ago on F Minus

   The burglar is in a super position to find out!

9. 18 days ago on B.C.

   Anachronisms R Us, of course.

10. 18 days ago on Wizard of Id

    I recall reading of an elaborately faked V-1 “buzz bomb” launching site the German army built from wood and canvas, hoping to decoy the British air force away from the real installations. Launch rails, buildings and sheds, even a dummy V-1 were constructed.

    It worked… sort of Shortly after the fake site was completed, a British bomber flew a mission right over it, and dropped a single large bomb on it… a wood bomb with no explosives in it.

    (True story! I’m tempted to claim that the bomb was made of rotten wood, and that this was the origin of the word “punked”, but that just wouldn’t be right.)