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1. 14 days ago on Mutt & Jeff

   ““I never did drink anything stronger than water for a chaser, and I never spend my money foolish unless I’m by myself or with somebody.”Woody Guthrie

2. 15 days ago on Pearls Before Swine

   Yes, indeed . . . I think a few people have dreamt it up independently, or borrowed it from someone else.

3. 15 days ago on Pearls Before Swine

   As Spike Milligan said, I often take an instant dislike to people. It saves time. (Or was it Groucho Marx?)

4. 15 days ago on Arlo and Janis

   In Britain there’s a very tasty beer, a bitter, called Old Speckled Hen. This won’t put me off drinking it.

5. 20 days ago on Mutt & Jeff

   Maybe it’s a hybrid? An kimu, or an ewi . . . Or a cassowary!

6. 21 days ago on Mutt & Jeff

   Artistic licence?

7. 22 days ago on Mutt & Jeff

   That’s an enormous kiwi — are you sure it’s not a young emu?

8. 24 days ago on Frazz

   And it’s just occurred to me that the ‘elliptical’ orbits actually precess due to tie dilation at the perihelion.I think I need to lie down!

9. 24 days ago on Frazz

   Not all plants follow the Fibonacci sequence, though it does pop up in all kinds of unexpected places.

10. 24 days ago on Frazz

    But your reference origin has to be chosen arbitrarily, as General Relativity tells us the universe has no centre or preferred direction. And even without Bilan’s observation, the paths relative to, say, the centre of the local galactic cluster are very, very complicated.