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1. 3 days ago on Doonesbury

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

2. about 1 month 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.

3. about 1 month ago on Brewster Rockit

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

4. 3 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.

5. 3 months ago on Gasoline Alley

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

6. 3 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!

7. over 6 years ago on Bloom County 2019

   adding: …for her age!

8. over 6 years ago on Wizard of Id

   I live there. And there never was a king, but several dukes of Schleswig.

9. almost 7 years ago on Wizard of Id

   I do remember the time before TVsets were everywhere. When I was born there were just about 3000 receivers in my native country (then about 4 mio. inhabitants) as broadcasting had just begun two years earlier. My family didnt get a set until 1961, but early enough to follow the erection of the Berlin Wall. A few american series reached us (Perry Mason, The Flintstones, Maverick and The Lucy Show most notable). Thus I sometimes have difficulty understanding TV-references, but thanks to google I learn still more English.