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1. about 14 hours ago on Speed Bump

   Those tests are a joke. In high school I took one of those short courses in summer school. At the beginning they had us read a short story, then tested us on the content. I got 95% or so, self-corrected, i.e. we were told the answers. At the end of the course we were given a story and then told to start on “Go” and as soon as we were done, to turn the paper over and write down how long it took. When I turned it over on the “go” I saw it was the same story we’d read four weeks earlier, so I turned it back over and wrote down 10 seconds. Then they gave us the same test. I got 100% of course since I remembered all the answers. So the teacher said that proved I could read 30,000 wpm or whatever the number worked out to be with 100% comprehension. Right.

2. about 14 hours ago on Loose Parts

   There was actually a US Supreme Court argument recently about the principle of ejusdem generis. It was on the conviction of one of the Jan. 6 rioters who was convicted under a statute that made it illegal to interfere with a congressional proceeding. The court ruled that the principle of ejusdem generis required reversal because the statute said something like it was illegal to withhold documents or provide falsified documents to Congress or otherwise interfere with a congressional proceeding. The principle says when a general term like “otherwise interfere” follows specific types of conduct or items, the general term must be limited to conduct or items of the same nature as the specified ones. They ruled that smearing crap on the walls is too different from withholding documents to apply.

3. about 22 hours ago on Frank and Ernest

   He’s a bloomin’ idjit.

4. about 22 hours ago on Loose Parts

   Ejusdem generis, res ipsa loquitur, usufruct.

5. about 22 hours ago on Rubes

   I guess we know what he had in his teeth.

6. about 23 hours ago on Baby Blues

   You’re ploy wasn’t affective.

7. about 23 hours ago on Sherman's Lagoon

   CPS may have to place him in a more suitable home.

8. about 23 hours ago on Non Sequitur

   Get … naked?

9. about 23 hours ago on The Lockhorns

   I think you meant ‘destroy.’

10. about 23 hours ago on Reality Check

    Mon dieu!