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1. about 15 hours ago on B.C.

   Amazing!

2. about 15 hours ago on B.C.

   Nitrous oxide initially failed its demonstration to the medical fraternity, as it is not a very powerful anesthetic, although it has moderate pain relieving ability, hence its use with oxygen to ease pain at childbirth. (Epidurals are infinitely better, but not always available), N2O [NOT NO2, nitrogen dioxide] was soon followed by di-ethyl ether, which was much more successful (at ‘The Ether Dome" at Mass. General, in Boston, administered by William Thomas Green Morton). Ether is highly flammable, slow in onset, and very nauseating. [Chloroform is more dangerous, however]. There is a statue commemorating ether’s introduction to anesthesia in Boston Public Garden, near the eastern end of Marlborough Street. Its use, and other drugs and techniques that followed, were the beginnings of vast improvements in surgical abilities and techniques, with which we are able to benefit today.

3. about 15 hours ago on B.C.

   See Bob Hope’s picture “The Paleface,” with Jane Russell, I think, and Roy Rogers, followed by “Son of Paleface” (also Bob Hope, who was a Harvard student or alumnus, strangely).

4. about 16 hours ago on Andy Capp

   One of our late English relatives, on visiting us in the southern hemisphere, informed us that the Sun moves backwards across the sky in the south.

5. about 16 hours ago on Arlo and Janis

   That’s why he sleeps on that side of the bed.

6. about 16 hours ago on Arlo and Janis

   Yes, beans and cabbage can cause that. Oh, wait, you said ‘diaphanous’, not dye a rear?

7. about 16 hours ago on Arlo and Janis

   Incidentally, it is rumored that a landing team found Alice Kramden’s body on the moon.

8. about 16 hours ago on Arlo and Janis

   Norton: “Bullets! It’s you!”

9. about 16 hours ago on Andy Capp

   That happened to a pilot that I know while doing an emergency landing with an unlocked main wheel on a commercial twin-engine plane. Just after touchdown, still at speed, and not yet fully settled on the runway, a passenger sitting behind the pilot sat up from the brace position and slapped the pilot on the back, saying “You did it!” Fortunately, no-one (nor the aircraft) was damaged, although the passenger deserved to be.

10. about 16 hours ago on Garfield

    To Joe: Is it near the‘TURN LEFT HERE, BUGS’ sign?