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1. 9 days ago on Brewster Rockit

   Hmmm. Well, at least you got me thinking about it.

   The problem, as always, is human nature. “Villaintine’s Day” would just be an excuse for trolls and haters to turn off the few social constraints they might still have. Giving them PERMISSION to be bad would just encourage more badness. (As opposed to badness remaining a transgression against others.) The trolls & haters cross those lines Willy-nilly now, but I imagine even they exercise a LITTLE self-restraint. But on Villaintine’s Day? Break out the white hoods and torches!

2. 20 days ago on Lay Lines

   “‘Dweena.” Flusssh! Brrrring!

3. 20 days ago on Lay Lines

   Aw. What’s the fun of that?

4. 21 days ago on MythTickle

   I’d say it was because Mary Ann was approachable. Imaging meeting them both at a party after they’d been rescued. You ask them each to dance. How do you think you’d do?

5. 23 days ago on MythTickle

   Yeah! The after-school lineup: Gillian, The Monkees, Sea Hunt, I dream of Jeannie…and then the inevitable battle with my friend over whether we’d switch to Star Trek, or stay on Channel 47 for for The Wild, Wild West.

   Looking back, I was just a bit too young to appreciate Ginger and what she could do to carbonate my hormones. But—still looking back—Mary Ann was the real thing, after all. Or Jeannie. (Suddenly, I want a Coors Light. I wonder why?). :-)

6. 24 days ago on Bloom County

   Pretty sure that was a Coast Guard boarding officer (I’m in the USCG Auxiliary—I tend to notice such things).

   “Alto su barco! Alto su barco!” while just wailing on that narcosub’s hatch…that was bada$$.

7. 28 days ago on Doonesbury

   We have become something new; a “broligarchy.”

8. about 1 month ago on MythTickle

   I can see where you’d get that impression, Gilbert. But that particular turn pf phrase predates “Friends” by a lot. Trouble is, “Friends” popularized it sooooo much that they now—in retrospect—seem to have ownership.

9. about 1 month ago on JumpStart

   Well, Marcus IS frugal to the point of being stingy—except he’s generous when making a donation or endowment to help his friends. What Joe doesn’t get is the fundamental difference between them: Joe loves the new shiny; Marcus loves THAT truck. Comedy is built on this kind of conflict.*

   *(Too strong a word in this context, I know. I’m referring to “conflict” in the storytelling sense.)

10. about 1 month ago on Frazz

    Oh, no—over on Doonesbury today, we’re examining the Wile E. Coyote v. Road Runner dynamic. The first question is, do the characters in Frazz (or, maybe just Caulfield) have the Cartoon Consitiution, or not?

    Caulfield will likely wind up with limbs poking out of the remnants of an avalanche at unlikely angles…but tomorrow he’ll be fine, where you and I would be dead.