Recent Comments

1. about 2 months ago on Arlo and Janis

   A Danish poet a couple of decades ago wrote a poem that in translation goes: “The year has sixteen months: January, February, March, April, May, June, July, August, September, October, November, November, November, November, November, December”.I you’d ever spend a November i Denmark you would fully understand the underlying emotion!

2. about 2 months ago on B.C.

   This joke is probably too wellknown, but I tell it anyways: An Aussie bought a new boomerang, but went crazy trying to throw the old one away.

3. 2 months ago on Bloom County

   Wasn’t Lassie played by male dogs?

4. 2 months ago on Doonesbury

   I read: Abolish the death penalty and the killers will go ahead – but my last French lesson was 53 years ago et mon grammaire n’avait pas bien. Excuse mon/ma grammaire, s’il vous plait.

5. 3 months ago on Doonesbury

   You must have used a wrong Google. First James Bond was Dr. No in 1962.

6. 4 months ago on Doonesbury

   Actually Bactria (now Afghanistan) was the only campaign Alexander lost. He considered it a walk-over because of the many tribes, but didn’t (like future wannabe conquerors) understand that while constantly fighting each other they always united to expel an enemy from abroad.

7. 5 months ago on Brewster Rockit

   The eternal triangle possibly was invented by Prins Paris of Troy, Helena and King Menelaus?

8. 6 months ago on For Better or For Worse

   …but in another time and circumstance. I worked 40 years as a journalist and most of the time looked like Michael. Just that my hair and beard turned from reddish-blond to grey-white. Just today I met (for the first time since retiring some years ago) with the person that took over my position at the paper and she told me how she still met people who referred to me and my work – in a pleasant way. I was of course flattered. Something I must have made right though always dressing casually.

9. 6 months ago on Gasoline Alley

   Talking to yourself is a fireproof way of getting an intelligent answer. ;-)

10. 6 months ago on Wizard of Id

    The trailers had acceptable length to sleep in provided you arranged your camouflagenet properly and had a pair of ammunitionboxes for the .50 machinegun emptied to make room for six bottles of beer in each. As the driver though you had to be aware that in case of a roll-over you sitting in the highest place of the jeep were the roll-over bar!