Recent Comments

1. 5 days ago on Crabgrass

   You misspelled “nevar” in the quote.

2. 6 days ago on Crankshaft

   Why are people referring to characters as Jff and Pmm?

3. 6 days ago on Wannabe

   What would even be the point of panda contraceptives?

4. 10 days ago on Ben

   The phonograph was invented in 1877 and the incandescent light bulb in 1879, so this is sort of correct, although vinyl discs were not until later.

5. 2 months ago on Get Fuzzy

   The camera is for Bucky to film his horror movie.

6. 3 months ago on Wizard of Id

   They have truckers in Id?

7. 5 months ago on Frazz

   “E.R.” is short for “Emergency Room.” Frazz is suggesting that rugby players look like the kind of people you see waiting in the emergency room lobby.

8. 9 months ago on Lay Lines

   In the final panel, the second sign reads: “Johnny Carson – What’s the best way an aspiring starlet can get into Hollywood? Bette Davis – ‘Take Fountain.’” This refers to Fountain Avenue. The story, which has been circulating since the late 1990s, is probably apocryphal.

9. about 1 year ago on Sherman's Lagoon

   I don’t suppose that anyone really thought the word was onomatopoeic, but I was curious as to the actual origin. It derives from the Russian for “white.”

10. over 1 year ago on JumpStart

    Asimov was an educated and respected scientist. Clark was not a scientist in the traditional sense, but he was a futurist whose writings were respected and influential. Heinlein was not a scientist. He was an aeronautical engineer of no special distinction, with the equivalent of a bachelor’s degree.