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1. 3 days ago on Stone Soup

   During our house hunt in Chicago we visited a house in late January that had been empty for a few months; the gutters hadn’t been cleaned, but the furnace was still running, so the interior was warm. The ice dams had created a complete and total disaster in multiple rooms; walls, carpets, hardwood floors, cabinets all just soaking wet. The odor was enough to chase us out after about 15 minutes. When we drove by the property a couple of years later, it was a vacant lot.

2. 6 days ago on Betty

   I had every issue of Gourmet Magazine from 1980 until it went out of business, and moved them from house to house, 4 times in total. Heavy as could be, but I also had the index for each decade, so it was a wonderful, albeit massive, cookbook/travel planner. When we recently downsized for 5th and final move, I spent about 24 hours over several days going through each index (where I had, over the years, marked favorites/failures) and then cut out each recipe from the issue in question. Taped them up in a notebook, and voila, my personal version of The Best of Gourmet Magazine. I also kept some of the most beguiling covers to eventually frame for my new kitchen.

3. 6 days ago on Ben

   I’m the kind of gal who cries over more movies than you’d think, so I was happy to have my mood turn when, as I was waiting for my friend in the theater lobby after crying over E.T. going home, a gentleman strolled through the lobby with at least 15 feet of TP stuck to his shoe. I almost gave myself a conniption trying not to burst out laughing until he was out of my sight. Lordy, that was a funny funny night, after all.

4. 22 days ago on Bliss

   It seems to me that whenever Steve is involved in the gag, the character looks a bit like him; am I just imagining it?

5. 30 days ago on JumpStart

   I hate it in movies/tv shows, but I realllllllllly hate it live; I had an uncle you would literally turn his head to look at you in the backseat, whilst driving, to tell you something or other. Truly terrifying.

6. about 1 month ago on Non Sequitur

   Did you ever try to buy health insurance on the open market before the ACA? I worked for the BCBSA, and I guarantee you the doing so, affordably, under the ACA is possible, having done so after I took early retirement. Before the ACA, the odds were highest that you might have purchased a plan for several hundred dollars, but the insurer would have taken measures to ensure that every single claim you made was denied, likely due to a pre-existing condition. Being alive was pretty much considered one.

7. about 1 month ago on Non Sequitur

   Bet you’re p.o.’d about being fact checked right about now, huh?

8. about 2 months ago on Lay Lines

   My late mom doesn’t visit via birds, but she does so in my dreams. She once told me in a dream that I had cancer, and while she wasn’t right, she was darn close. I had a rapidly growing non-cancerous abdominal tumor that went from the size of a lemon when first detected, to over 10 pounds when it was removed 14 days later. So I pay attention when I dream of her now.

9. about 2 months ago on Pearls Before Swine

   Neither of them, dimwit. This is madness to believe such things.

10. about 2 months ago on Non Sequitur

    They’re targeting people in my area who have unclaimed trampolines, which the drone (or Google Earth) identifies. I’m not kidding. But I get it, those things are dangerous af.