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1. 3 days ago on Kid Beowulf

   from the oputside it looks liek a natrual formation but inside there’s clearly worked stone. Who was in the area before Latins and Etruscans to have risen, built then fallen so far that it is all but gone?

2. 3 days ago on Over the Hedge

   he’s a merger of the two. St. Nick was as you said bishop of Myre in what we now call turkey. A patron of children, sialors and ‘women of loose morals’ . A great deal of father xmas/santa imagry comes from a mix of various yule deities. The celebrations certainly include Saturn et al though that’s more a ‘father time’ image and drifted towards new years while nordic images Krampus/Bellsnickel/etc merged with elements of Odin.

3. 5 days ago on Dick Tracy

   sam looks kind of butch there

4. 5 days ago on Non Sequitur

   my wife and i had to go to the highland games on long island one year. as we drove up my wife declared “I suddenly realized I hate bag pipes.” “Wow are you in the wrong place.”

5. 5 days ago on Kid Beowulf

   right but other latins are goig to be more sympathetic than the etruscans

6. 5 days ago on Dick Tracy

   nothing so mellow.

7. 6 days ago on Shoe

   In Jr high I had the lead in "You’re a good man charlie brown. we used taped music and the finale is the song ‘happiness is’ with the whole cast singing what makes them happy but about half of it is CB. and half way through the performance, the tape broke and i went from accompanied to acapella in a terrible heart beat.

8. 6 days ago on Dick Tracy

   back to the clock tower story after hat rip off minute mystery (rip off because we had no chance to resolve it) and as i said before, 1) i bet they’ve got something timed for the clock for new years eve, and 2) when we first heard the name Totten I pointed out it’s link to certain german groups such as the Totenkopf.

9. 6 days ago on Kid Beowulf

   and none in the latins’ homes?

10. 6 days ago on Phoebe and Her Unicorn

    but now she’s popular with goblins she may have protectors