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1. 1 day ago on Richard's Poor Almanac

   My dad fought in the Pacific. I gave him a copy of The Greatest Generation for a birthday present. He couldn’t get past the first line in the introduction about how 11,000 WWII vets were dying every day.

2. 2 days ago on Get Fuzzy

   The latest Chinese-made product I’ve encountered with a poorly-translated instruction manual was a commercial hot dog steamer. I wish I had it handy so I could share some of it. Still, whoever wrote it had a mastery of English that was far superior to my Mandarin.

3. 2 days ago on Bloom County

   I skimmed through a few of those books. They teach that if you die with Lord Krishna’s name on your lips, you go directly to the top plane of enlightenment, Heaven, Nirvana, wherever. No more reincarnations – you got the Golden Buzzer. That’s why they recommend singing or chanting the Hare Krishna mantra nonstop – even when you’re asleep, if you can manage it. Also, they teach how the planets are physically aligned with stages of enlightenment, and everything secular astronomy teaches is a lie. So in that way, they have something in common with Bible believers.

4. 4 days ago on Little Nemo

   Three whole years before the income tax …

5. 7 days ago on Garfield

   Monday Garfields are the Monday of comic strips

6. 9 days ago on Bloom County

   They thought the beer drinking public would be offended by male doggie naughty bits, which, a la Lassie (really a male) you can’t hide with floof.

7. 9 days ago on Bloom County

   And I watch a You Tube channel with a bunch of Alberta gearheads, and what are they drinking? Coors.

8. 10 days ago on Kliban

   We used to try to fill a whole notebook page with one sentence. This was before video games.

9. 10 days ago on Bloom County

   40 years later, are we sure A-B parent company InBev doesn’t OWN Heineken? Molson Coors owns like 20 or so beer brands, including ones in Europe that are 800 years old.

10. 12 days ago on Bloom County

    250th – too fast for strobes