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1. 9 days ago on Dark Side of the Horse

   I thought it was going to be the “Up” button on an ancient elevator.

2. 2 months ago on For Better or For Worse

   Check out the song “In the Bath” by Michael Flanders and Donald Swann!

3. 2 months ago on Dark Side of the Horse

   Not to mention that someone is stealing the entire final panel.

4. 5 months ago on Dark Side of the Horse

   There’s another gag on a similar theme, 2/22/2016. Horace is sitting with a French horn, and as soon as he starts to blow it, it uncoils itself across the rest of the panel like a New Year’s whistle. (I don’t have hundreds of these cartoons memorized—I just keep a copy of that one in my bassoon case!)

5. 8 months ago on Dark Side of the Horse

   I like how the last 2 panels are boundaried by the same tree, with the bird sitting on both sides at the same time.

6. about 1 year ago on Dark Side of the Horse

   Walt Kelly’s POGO had some kind of line like: “How much ground round would a groundhog hog…” etc.

7. about 1 year ago on For Better or For Worse

   For years, I had a full-face beard and mustache. When the cheek areas turned too white for my taste, off they came, leaving a goatee and mustache. The goatee was next to go (same situation), and nothing remained but the mustache. Shortly thereafter, a friend noticed something was different. “Don’t tell me”, he said, staring at my face for a few moments, then: “Aah—you grew a mustache!”

8. over 1 year ago on Dark Side of the Horse

   Joe Btfsplk, a character in Al Capp’s strip “Li’l Abner”, was the perpetually unlucky schmoe who had a permanent dark cloud above him, following him around absolutely wherever he went. I don’t know the exact dates of the strip, but it was big in the 1950s.

9. over 1 year ago on Dark Side of the Horse

   Some day autocorrect will fix grammar and spelling!

10. over 1 year ago on Dark Side of the Horse

    Three C or not three C…