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1. 2 days ago on Adult Children

   My nearby store is going through that remodel hell. It’s like playing “Where’s Waldo” just to find the peanut butter. Grrr.

2. 26 days ago on Speed Bump

   A Canadian comedian observed there was one good thing about zombies staring at their phone while they walked. It gives drivers a chance at seeing them on a dark winter morning, since they’re usually dressed in black.

3. 30 days ago on Pearls Before Swine

   I can’t even laugh. One unsubstantiated rumour about someone goes viral and the mob goes frothing berserk. The digital pitchforks and the cyber torches burn the poor chump to the ground.

4. about 1 month ago on Adult Children

   Well, if their store is anything like local stores, seeing a free-roaming staff member is like spotting a sasquatch. Of course they get stopped by bewildered customers! (Hopefully not with questions as stupid as in today’s strip)

5. about 1 month ago on Non Sequitur

   (Thank you for using “hypothesis” correctly!)

6. about 1 month ago on Strange Brew

   Back in the once upon a time, I took a call job flogging newspaper subscriptions. I quit two hours into a four hour shift. Absolutely vile on every angle you can think of.

   (One cringe memory is the shift supervisor yelling and banging like a coach at hockey game, demanding we show hustle and results)

7. about 1 month ago on Adult Children

   I was visiting a town once that had a similar event happening. They sold the books at $1 a kilo!

8. about 1 month ago on Adult Children

   Been there! I worked in the shipping-receiving of a bookstore and every other day was like opening presents. I needed “Moderation” tattooed on one hand and “Restraint” on the other.

9. about 2 months ago on Pearls Before Swine

   Folks like Rat also have to deal with unimaginative casting directors (especially in American shows): “Is the slender blonde fashion model the prime suspect?” “No, that’s the slender blonde cop.” “Who’s that, then?” “The slender blonde cop’s slender blonde sister.” Yeah, some of these casting directors really have a Type.

10. about 2 months ago on Pickles

    “You only had a ‘man-look’.” is so ingrained in our society that here we have a comic about it. Yet, since I’ve been married, there have been about an equal number of times my wife can’t find something that I do in about three seconds. If you want to see sparks come out of a woman’s ears, say: “You only had a ‘lady-look’.”