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1. about 20 hours ago on Red and Rover

   The context is that Red had just been dropped off by the school bus (still visible in the background), so it makes sense he’s still in a suburban area of lawns and few trees. When Watterson drew Calvin standing at the bus stop, he was often depicted on a sidewalk with a lone tree in the background. Also, roller skates are an integral part of today’s story, and these are much better suited for suburban sidewalks than forest floor.

2. 3 days ago on The Barn

   And in turn, Uhura was quoting Cyrano Jones. Specifically, his sales pitch. There would have been much less troubles if they had gone with the ermine violin instead.

3. 3 days ago on Buni

   CDs are having a bit of a bounce back these days. Vinyl (both new and used) has become so pricey, a lot of the people who would like to collect physical media can’t afford them. Meanwhile, used CDs are plentiful and inexpensive. A lot of Millennials grew up with CDs and have nostalgia for them.

4. 3 days ago on Pearls Before Swine

   I saw the latest trend among Gen Alpha is to mount landline phones on their walls. Not connected of course, they just like the old-timey “granny” aesthetic.

5. 3 days ago on Pearls Before Swine

   Imagine a blue circle representing people who have used a rotary phone. Now imagine a red circle representing people who still read newspaper comics.

   Now imagine a solid purple circle. That’s the Venn diagram showing the overlap between the two groups.

6. 5 days ago on Strange Brew

   I first learned of CIDU back on the old usenet groups for comic strips.

7. 7 days ago on WuMo

   Found this pertinent footnote on the “octopus” Wikipedia entry: “‘Tentacle’ is a common umbrella term for cephalopod limbs. In teuthological context, octopuses have ‘arms’” with suckers along their entire length while “tentacle” is reserved for appendages with suckers only near the end of the limb, which octopuses lack".

   And before anybody asks, “teuthological” pertains to the study of cephalopods.

8. 8 days ago on Geech

   I recall back in the days when I actually got the dead wood version of the newspaper, it always seemed to be the comics with the “lighter fluid go boom” gags which stoked the ire of the safety-minded readers resulting in scathing letters-to-the-editor condemning them for exposing such a dangerous strip to impressionable young readers (who – even then – were not reading the newspaper but instead were in the basement playing “Grand Theft Auto”).

9. 8 days ago on Chuckle Bros

   “Time enough at last!” crunch

10. 8 days ago on WuMo

    Yes, that is the crux of the joke.