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1. 2 days ago on Freshly Squeezed

   Magic color-changing wrapping paper!

2. 3 days ago on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal

   Somebody’s been observing the customers at Dave’s Hot Chicken.

3. 3 days ago on Agnes

   Acquired taste, originally for social purposes. I drank tea until I was 20 and worked a summer job where the lab crew visited the coffee cart twice a day; no tea, so I learned to drink coffee with cream and sugar. Seven years later I worked at a lab in France where everyone went into the espresso bar after lunch; no cream, so I learned to drink strong coffee with sugar. Still doing the same 48 years later.

4. 5 days ago on Tank McNamara

   Famous cartoon from some years ago in /The New Yorker/:

   Man sitting in a living room chair, wearing a fake arrow through his head.Wife sitting opposite in a similar chair: “I never know when you’re kidding.”

5. 16 days ago on Super-Fun-Pak Comix

   He should have made a Klein bagel, so everything was inside it.

6. 4 months ago on Ordinary Bill

   Loses his left sandal when he goes flying, right sandal is missing when he lands under the tree.

7. 5 months ago on [Deleted]

   It varies. Frank Lloyd Wright did many of his own calculations; Louis Kahn worked a lot with August Komendant. (The latter’s autobiography has a lot of “and then my brilliant solution saved Louie’s design.”)

8. 5 months ago on Bloom County

   The “grand unification” still being sought is between quantum mechanics and gravitation. Relativistic quantum mechanics goes back to Dirac in 1928.

9. 6 months ago on The City

   As a gun owner he gets a pass.

10. 6 months ago on Edge City

    I made a custom ringtone for my cell phone – the opening bars of Crossroads, from Cream’s Wheels of Fire album.

    And our mp3-capable door chime plays the opening bars of Blue Condition from Disraeli Gears.