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The Brooklyn Accent Free

Born two years after Charlie Brown's debut; mainframe geek for three decades for a great metropolitan bank, now mostly retired but doing a few gigs as a spelling and grammar geek. I've identified with Charlie Brown as a kid, Mike Doonesbury in college, Dilbert at work, and Opus in my free time.

Recent Comments

  1. about 15 hours ago on Frank and Ernest

    Hnh. That didn’t register then, but now that you mention it, the box design was updated that way.

  2. about 21 hours ago on Kliban

    Hey, it’s been part of my ears’ repertoire for half a century. Seemed only right that I share.

  3. about 21 hours ago on Speed Bump

    Goodnight, Dick.

  4. about 23 hours ago on Close to Home

    Those didn’t come along until the Flintstonian Era.

  5. about 23 hours ago on Close to Home

    First you have to invent ribbons.

  6. about 23 hours ago on Non Sequitur

    And here I thought he was an idler who spent his life just sittin’ on the dock of the bay, wasting time. I guess he deserves more respect.

  7. about 23 hours ago on Non Sequitur

    An excessive subdivision of the population has a predilection for sesquipedalian terminology.

  8. about 24 hours ago on The Argyle Sweater

    Thanks to Slartibartfast for creating such an interesting geographical feature.

    There are fjords in other places besides Scandinavia; the Hudson River is one such.

  9. about 24 hours ago on The Argyle Sweater

    All the pillagers went into the pharmaceutical business.

  10. about 24 hours ago on Speed Bump

    “It may be an electric outlet to you, but it’s a socket to me!”