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1. 4 days ago on Wizard of Id

   On the other hand, people who live in Australia or New Zealand have to walk around upside-down. That probably keeps them too busy to even notice whether it’s spring or autumn.

2. 4 days ago on Speed Bump

   You should have paid more attention to what he actually said. “I want to light a fire. Please take this kindling and put it in my grate.”

3. 4 days ago on Wizard of Id

   It’s a good job that nobody in the southern hemisphere ever looks at these strips.

   Just sayin’

4. 4 days ago on Non Sequitur

   I note that the woman in the booth isn’t wearing a two-piece swimsuit. She’s probably never even heard of Bikini at all.

5. 4 days ago on Non Sequitur

   I beg to differ: the booth is there not only to provide information but also to ensure that anyone who wants sit under the only palm tree on the atoll pays a fee.

6. 7 days ago on Wizard of Id

   I can’t work out whether forecasts are accurate or not.

7. 7 days ago on B.C.

   In normal times, Apteryxes are especially fond of creepy-crawlies. Their mothers tell them that eating spiders will put hair on their feathers.

   But according to this strip, these aren’t normal times.

8. 8 days ago on B.C.

   Obviously, cavemen must have had dynamite! All those caves didn’t excavate themselves!

   Little-known fact: A distant ancestor of Alfred Nobel was a caveman. The ancestor’s wife, a cavewoman, was dynamite.

   Nobel himself was married to a woman named Dinah. He had numerous extramarital affairs, but was always afraid that “Dinah might find out” about them. Scientists believe this may explain the origin of the name of his most famous invention.

9. 9 days ago on Non Sequitur

   This is an amusing strip, but I feel impelled to point out that as the very existence of “crypto” depends on the existence of an internet, data centres and massive computing power, it’s extremely unlikely that a future age could have such a thing if its inhabitants had returned to the Stone Age

   Just sayin’

10. 9 days ago on Calvin and Hobbes

    I can’t help noticing that Frank, the human Calvin imagines as prey for the deer, is obviously getting to the end of his child-bearing years.If he really wanted his cartoon to pack a punch, Calvin should have shown the deer shooting a human child, thereby removing a potential reproducer from the population.Why not, for example, a certain small girl… Oh no: it just doesn’t bear thinking about!