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1. 15 days ago on Wizard of Id

   They have truckers in Id?

2. 2 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.

3. 6 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.

4. 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.”

5. 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.

6. over 1 year ago on MythTickle

   Not Twain, of course, see https://marktwainstudies.com/the-apocryphal-twain-the-things-you-didnt-do/.

7. over 1 year ago on Ink Pen

   Neither Batman nor Iron Man is a scientist as such, although they both have quite a bit of scientific knowledge. There are a lot of superhero scientists, though. Some that immediately come to mind: Mr. Fantastic, Ant Man, the Flash (though he is a forensic chemist, not a research scientist), the Hulk (though only in his Bruce Banner persona). There must be many others.

8. over 1 year ago on Frazz

   Up until the 1970s, weather forecasting was basically an educated guess. And then weather satellites and sophisticated computers came into use and there was a stunning increase in accuracy. I always assumed it was the weather satellites and not the computers that were primarily responsible.

9. over 1 year ago on Frazz

   What happened to Coach Hacker?

10. almost 2 years ago on That is Priceless

    I was curious about the odd original. The running man is not George Washington but Baron Munchausen. This is a picture from Mr. Munchausen, by J.K. Bangs, which Peter Newell illustrated, https://www.google.com/books/edition/Mr_Munchausen/1vAoAQAAIAAJ.