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1. 3 days ago on Super-Fun-Pak Comix

   Good job, Percival.

2. 3 days ago on JumpStart

   All dogs have pica, by that definition. So do toddlers.

3. 3 days ago on Baldo

   The official story on WWE and Lucha Libre is that they’re “scripted.” They mean the wrestlers really jump on each other and throw each other around and so on, but it’s not spontaneous; it’s planned in advance. In my opinion, that makes pro wrestling a type of theater performance rather than a sport.

4. 4 days ago on The Meaning of Lila

   Wait. Isn’t Town Bar Tramp how Lila wants to be known?

5. 4 days ago on Breaking Cat News

   Wow. That movie would be rated R.

6. 4 days ago on Breaking Cat News

   The doll got married and divorced, too?

7. 4 days ago on JumpStart

   Rock Em Sock Em Robots came out when I was a kid. Toys were extremely violent then. Many of them were also very dangerous. Typical playthings were toy guns, toy soldiers and war machinery (tanks, war planes, battleships, submarines, etc.), BB guns, bows and arrows, firecrackers, and on and on.

   My brothers and I played a card game called “Nuclear War,” the object of which was to kill the entire population of another country.

   There’s not even room to discuss the dangerous ones. That’s a subject for another day.

8. 4 days ago on Gasoline Alley

   I’ve never seen the later incarnation of “What’s My Line,” so I don’t know if it had the same award system.

   In the 1950s, $50 was a fairly substantial sum (it was the rent for a cheap apartment, for example). But it was nothing like the big sums that some game shows award now.

9. 4 days ago on Gasoline Alley

   The guests got, I think, $5 for every incorrect guess the panel made (every question to which the answer was “no”), up to a maximum of $50. The award was eventually raised to $10 per wrong guess, with a $100 maximum.

10. 5 days ago on Francis

    There’s a lot of that in the Christian life.