Recent Comments

1. 19 days ago on One Big Happy

   When she was about 3 or 4, our daughter called a spoon a ‘foop’. No idea where that came from, but my father tried to get her to say ‘spoon’ by constantly having her repeat the sounds ‘sp’ and ‘oon’. When he showed her a spoon, and asked her what it was, she said ‘a foop’. He gave up.

2. about 2 months ago on Shoe

   I remember one case in Army basic training where someone’s athletic supporter was accidentally starched…

3. 2 months ago on Pearls Before Swine

   Hey! I’m 77 and I resemble that alligator!

4. 2 months ago on Pickles

   My father pulled that stunt once, remembering he had to shave, after he kept pestering my mother about whether she was ready. He only pulled that ONCE…

5. 4 months ago on Get Fuzzy

   We had a German shepherd that LOVED graham crackers. He would pester us, and even go to the place where they were kept as a hint, if we didn’t give him some every night.

6. 4 months ago on Pickles

   Reminds me of the time we convinced our granddaughter that the tomato in her food – she didn’t like tomato – was really pimiento. She ate it and liked it.

7. 5 months ago on Pearls Before Swine

   So true. Try to find a contact phone number for Facebook. Ain’t there.

8. 11 months ago on Baldo

   Reminds me of the story my mother used to tell about when my sister and I were little, and we needed to ‘fairly’ divide candy. I would always do the dividing: “one for you, one for me; one for you, two for me…”

9. 11 months ago on Baby Blues

   My wife (now 70) has probably close to that number of stuffed animals. What’s the problem here?

10. about 1 year ago on Big Nate

    I realize the oboe is "the ill wind that no-one blows good’, but this isn’t the only comic to deride beginning oboists. As someone who has played the oboe for over 60 years, I resemble that alligator!