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1. 3 days ago on Doonesbury

   Pittsburgh Post-Gazette ran another replacement strip today. They seem really touchy when Doonesbury is about tfg.

2. 17 days ago on Doonesbury

   Same for the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. They’ve done it a lot this year.

3. 23 days ago on Baby Blues

   When I was in high school (way back when we rode dinosaurs to school), somebody in one of my math classes asked if we could use calculators on a test, kind of as a joke. The teacher said, “Sure,” and everybody was like, “Wait – are you serious?” He went on to say that he was, and there was no point in fighting technology, that it should be used and embraced, but…if you just wrote down an answer w/o showing your work, you’d get no credit because he’d have no way of knowing if you knew how to solve a problem. He said the important thing was showing you understood the concept.

4. 24 days ago on Doonesbury

   Same with the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.

5. 29 days ago on Pearls Before Swine

   He didn’t miss the plane, he gave up his seat. The tour bus heater kept failing, and Buddy Holly chartered the plane for himself and the Crickets were supposed to join him. Big Bopper asked if he could switch with Jennings because he was ill. Buddy told Jennnings, and as they were parting, Holly taunted Jennings, yelling, “I hope your bus freezes!” Jennings yelled back, “Yeah? Well I hope your plane crashes!” He said he clearly didn’t mean it, and he never thought Holly thought he meant it, but he felt guilty about it the rest of his life.

6. 2 months ago on Lio

   Reminds me of a joke I saw recently.

   I asked my daughter to get me the phone book. She just laughed and said, “OK, boomer. Maybe use this.” Then she tossed me her iPhone.

   Well, the spider’s dead, but the phone’s broken and my daughter is p*ssed.

7. 3 months ago on Doonesbury

   The story, as I recall, was that Ringo wasn’t in New York. Paul said they considered doing it because the amount of money showed that it wasn’t a cash grab, it was more in the spirit of “let’s just do it for the hell of it.”

   The next week, George Harrison did a backstage cameo that showed him talking to Lorne Michaels, who said, “The deal was $3,000 for four Beatles, not $750 for one.”

8. 3 months ago on For Better or For Worse

   I went on one of those years ago. When I stood up, I heard two young women in bikinis talking, and one said, “I don’t know what you’re complaining about. When I stood up, I looked like a pirate!”

9. 4 months ago on Bloom County

   No editing needed. Not even remotely offensive. Or insensitive.

10. 5 months ago on Pearls Before Swine

    Because you might pinch your junk in the door?