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1. 3 days ago on Peanuts

   In New York, we call them “hero” sandwiches. In Boston, they are “grinders.”

2. 3 days ago on Fred Basset

   It was common in New York City, too, when I was growing up. I remember seeing dogs sitting forlornly in front of supermarkets, tied by their leash to the building.

3. 4 days ago on Peanuts

   Good-looking sandwich…don’t invite Homer Simpson.

4. 4 days ago on Fred Basset

   If Jack Russell is extremely drunk, he MIGHT drink from the bowl….

5. 4 days ago on Red and Rover

   No, we have had cats walk into the house and declare it was their home.

   Nomad the cat (aka Harry A. Smith) just trotted right in and stayed with us.

   Curry the Ginger Tum escaped an SRO fire in Hoboken and tried his luck at every house on the block, trying to get in, until he reached ours. He shot in, ran up the stairs, leaped into my parents’ bed, and went to sleep. We had to keep him.

   Douglas Borg the Black Manx (he had no tail to tell) kept banging on our back door and running in. We would try to take him back to his owners, but 20 minutes later, he was in our backyard again.

   Stalky the Grouch, however, was different. She walked out of the front of our house, stared at us, and we wondered how she got in. She had to stay, of course. Two months later, she presented us with kittens.

6. 4 days ago on Red and Rover

   I constantly come back to this particular strip. Over and over and over again.

7. 4 days ago on Red and Rover

   I like this better, but only slightly…Red doesn’t get into any mischief.

8. 5 days ago on Dick Tracy

   Heinrich Himmler….one of the most evil men in history. He said that it was permissible to practice genocide, but not for profit. His satraps profited anyway.

   He was obsessed with the occult, sending people to Tibet to find the origins of the “Aryan race.” That obsession kept him socially apart from his master with the dust-bug mustache, who thought Himmler’s ideas were loony, even by Der Chef’s questionable standards.

   Himmler tried to be a tough guy, but failed. The “Grand Inquisitor” nearly fainted at watching a mass execution in Ukraine. He competed in SS sports events, and the judges inflated his scores. He buried his chin in his hand in photographs, as it didn’t make him look fierce.

   Ultimately, Himmler tried to save his own skin and Germany’s by bargaining his last prisoners to the Swedes in return for a surrender to Eisenhower (but not the Russians) and being kept in charge of Germany and its police force. Ike ignored the offer. Der Chef found out about it and fired “Der Treu Heinrich” three days before shooting himself.

   Himmler shaved off his mustache, fled to Schleswig-Holstein, and offered his services to the new Fuehrer, Doenitz. The admiral waved Himmler away. Heinrich wandered around, and was captured by a British officer of Jewish descent. While being searched, Himmler bit down on his cyanide capsule, and died. Having spared the International War Crimes Tribunal one more case, the British buried the “Grand Inquisitor” in an unmarked grave.

9. 5 days ago on Dick Tracy

   Believe it or not, this is a plotline ripped from a real and horrific kidnapping and murder case. A teenage girl was kidnapped from the driveway of her rural home. Her kidnapper forced her to write a ransom demand on a page in a notebook. After getting the ransom, they killed her.

   Cops located the home of the suspect, and searched it. They found the notebook. The girl had pressed her pencil so heavily into the paper, her words were visible (in the same way as above) on the sheet below.

   Confronted with this, the suspect led the cops to the girl’s shallow grave.

   I read about this in a book about real crime labs…I will dig it out of my shelf and get the complete story.

10. 16 days ago on Peanuts

    The song must refer to Schulz’s youth in St. Paul.