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1. about 13 hours ago on Little Nemo

   The only time in history an airship has been washed in Niagara Falls . .

2. 1 day ago on FurBabies

   Yes, Dennis! Thank you! And I was thinking of P. C. as I was typing my reply . .

3. 1 day ago on FurBabies

   I do too! This is just wonderful . .

4. 1 day ago on FurBabies

   Yes! The 16th. I thought so. A bit like Peppermint Patty’s in the front. Lovely!

5. 1 day ago on FurBabies

   True. But both Schulz and Beiman have had a lot in common. They both have known a lot about the business—technique but also, most importantly, meaning. (Ha! I’m now thinking that, very rarely, Linus combed his hair. I wonder about Kate. I’ll go back and look.)

6. 1 day ago on Little Nemo

   I can hardly believe Mr. McCay found a way to even draw these soot-filled panels. What a tour de force!

7. 1 day ago on FurBabies

   Kate’s hair sure beats Linus’s.

8. 1 day ago on Dogs of C-Kennel

   Also, not all is lost. Almost the same thing, but not quite. I wonder if one is blue and the other red!

9. 1 day ago on Back to B.C.

   How do you know? Reputation . .

10. 1 day ago on Arlo and Janis

    A. McKay, in the “History of Kilmarnock” (1880), wrote, “This bell was gifted by the Earl of Kilmarnock to the town of Kilmarnock for their Council~house.”

    And even earlier, we have, “If they object, that tithes, being gifted to Levi, in official inheritance, can stand no longer than Levi. . . .” This is from 1619. It is in J. Sempill’s “Sacrilege Sacredly Handled,” on p. 31.

    Or this, from 1801: “Parents were prohibited from selling, gifting, or pledging their children.” That’s in A. Ranken’s “History of France,” vol. I, on p. 301.

    We’ve been “gifting” things for almost as long as we have people “gifted” in mathematics, gifted in medicine, or gifted in operating heavy equipment—we can be gifted, in rthat sense, in anything. But “gifting” a present is old and long established, it certainly seems.