Recent Comments

1. about 2 months ago on Doonesbury

   You’re right, @Hidden-in-the-Trees, the pot farm is on Duke’s cabin in Colorado, according to the WaPo’s biographies of Zonker and Zipper. More precisely, it is there on Sundays, nowadays, but on weekdays, i.e. back in 2002, Zonker was working for BD & Boopsie & Sam. So @timmorton616 is right too!

   I had never noticed the connection between the farm and the orphanage! Since the orphanage appeared not so long ago on the weekday timeline, it all makes sense now, more than on the Sunday when Z & Z moved out there.

2. 2 months ago on Arlo and Janis

   I, for one, agree that “gift” should remain a noun, never a verb! So there are at least two of us (it’s not just “the sole view of the author”).

3. 10 months ago on Doonesbury

   According to Wikipedia (“List of Doonesbury characters”), Jim Andrews is “… a greedy executive who worked for Universal Petroleum, and was later employed by the administration of George W. Bush”. So that’s were we are in today’s rerun."He " … favors lax government oversight on environmental protection. He is a Walden alumnus, and was friends with the late Phil Slackmeyer. Jim was named after Trudeau’s first editor at Universal Press Syndicate. The book, The People’s Doonesbury, is dedicated to the memory of Andrews." TMI, I know, I know …

4. 11 months ago on Doonesbury

   “Tick off”? That would make sense, but JJ said “wick off”! Was that ever a thing people said, even back when this cartoon first appeared? Is there any reason why “tick off” would have been censored (I certainly can’t think of any)? A quick search for “wick off” only brings up pages having to do with candles, even if I tell Google I don’t want pages about candles.

5. over 3 years ago on Watch Your Head

   Ironic to think this is a repeat from 2013…. apparently they DON’T have to “leave this place behind sometime”.

6. almost 4 years ago on Studio Jantze

   Interesting question – what happens when he turns that wrench? He moves, the satellite moves — but does the bolt move (relative to the satellite)?

7. almost 4 years ago on Frazz

   B.CDEDABAC = 3.21014342, on a US 4 grading point scale, where 4 is an A. Strangely, not pi, which would have been B.DADAE … and I have no way of doing a 9. In any case: almost a B+ (which would have been B.BBBB…

8. over 4 years ago on Frazz

   You got it backwards. The point was that the Far Side was (is?) always funny.