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1. about 12 hours ago on Crankshaft

   “Go [reproduce] yourself, Harry!”

   — the long-forgotten third tablet that Moses brought down from Mt. Sinai

2. about 14 hours ago on Ripley's Believe It or Not

   There’s a precedent for that.

   Https://en.wikipedia.ORG/wiki/Le_P%C3%A9tomane

3. 1 day ago on Crankshaft

   Shelved next to his similarly-comprehensive Slim Whitman collection.

4. 1 day ago on Crankshaft

   I dream of a day when comments would be re-enabled for 9CWL, as the long-suppressed snark that would be unleashed would be truly something to behold.

5. 3 days ago on Gil Thorp

   He does look more than a little like Bob Crane there.

6. 3 days ago on Gil Thorp

   She’s built like a car, got a hubcap diamond star halo

7. 5 days ago on Gil Thorp

   P3: Keri is confused as to why Gregg Allman has come to visit her.

8. 7 days ago on Gasoline Alley

   I haven’t personally examined the respective filtersets of Adblock and uBlock, but it’s my understanding that uBlock’s filtersets are more effective, and that seems to be the generally-accepted consensus among most users. I used to use Adblock but once I switched to uBlock I likewise felt it was better at nuking the more insistent ads, and I haven’t looked back since (granted, that was quite some time ago). You’re already halfway there with Firefox – a lot of former Chrome users have migrated in the wake of the changes to Chrome I mentioned. At the end of the day, Google’s always going to have an eye on anything that impacts their ad revenues and their ability to monetize user data. Firefox has no such constraints.

9. 7 days ago on Gasoline Alley

   Phil’s track record isn’t that great compared to other groundhogs, but he’s certainly more famous than any of the others.

   Https://Www.noaa.GOV/heritage/stories/grading-groundhogs

   Staten Island Chuck differed from Phil in that he did not see his shadow today.

10. 8 days ago on The Lockhorns

    Yes, there are a lot of variables, which is why I said “some” docs. Certainly not all of them do this, and I’m sure docs in smaller towns get fewer samples from the pharma reps. In my experience the free samples were a net positive – my parents lived in a big city containing a very large medical complex, so samples were almost always available at the doctors they were seeing regularly. My father’s pulmonologist had him on an inhaler that would have cost hundreds of dollars a month if he’d had to pay for it, but every time he was about to run out I’d call the doc’s office, and they would invariably be able to give him several months’ worth of inhalers.