Recent Comments

1. about 5 hours ago on Off the Mark

   St Patrick is the Patron Saint of engineers. He drove the snakes out of Ireland, thereby inventing Worm Drive.

2. 26 days ago on Arlo and Janis

   I used to be able to ignore the drug ads, but when one comes on now, Siri pops up on my iPad and says: “Here’s what I found on the Internet.”

3. about 1 month ago on Doonesbury

   I thought he was only going to be a dictator for one day.

4. 2 months ago on Brevity

   If you don’t like the way I drive, stay off the sidewalk!

5. 3 months ago on Loose Parts

   “George, where is Ursula?”“Who?”“Your wife, Ursula?”“Oh, him.”“No, no, George; Ursula, your mate.”“Oh, you mean soft fellow… doesn’t shave?”

6. 3 months ago on Brevity

   Look behind you.

7. 3 months ago on Mike du Jour

   I’m reminded of a Gahan Wilson cartoon presenting a stereotypical, American tourist couple, negotiating the purchase of a severed hand wearing a golden ring set with a large ruby in a box furtively held open by a fellow of disreputable appearance, who appeared from a dimly lighted alleyway in some Middle Eastern setting. The husband drolly asks, “How much for just the ring?”

8. 4 months ago on Doonesbury

   Everybody seems to have forgotten how Reagan “went up in his lines” during his “Shining city on a hill” monologue during the last debate in his 1984 reelection campaign, and rambled-on aimlessly until time ran out. Hardly what would be called articulate.

9. 5 months ago on Off the Mark

   If she’d have been drinking coffee at the time, it would have come out of her nose!

10. 5 months ago on Off the Mark

    I had to ask the waitress at Perkins for assurance that the “Krispy Tots” weren’t made from actual little children.