Recent Comments

1. 12 days ago on Brevity

   I believe the Japanese sword is a katana, not a catan.

   As others have said, Catan (more precisely, “Settlers of Catan”) is a fairly popular board game.

2. 15 days ago on Bound and Gagged

   He was always gray. Melville had to make him white in the book for copyright and trademark reasons.

3. 17 days ago on Free Range

   I have several pair – they’re pretty much the only kind of pants I wear. I don’t like the feel of sitting on my wallet.

4. 19 days ago on Bound and Gagged

   You’ve met death (insects splattered on the windshield, beloved pets who are now gone, friends and relatives who have passed, etc.); death just hasn’t met you yet.

5. 19 days ago on The Argyle Sweater

   On a similar topic, “fuse” and “fuze” are both words but for different things. A fuse is an electrical safety device, while a fuze is the trigger for military munitions.

6. 21 days ago on Lio

   If it was more accurate, Disney would sue for trademark infringement.

7. 25 days ago on The Elderberries

   Evelyn the #1 starting pitcher but Dusty must be #2 and this is the second game.

8. 27 days ago on Rudy Park

   Maybe it’s a double-check that the syndicate sent out correct the strips for the dates, and that papers ran the correct strip?

9. 27 days ago on Over the Hedge

   More recent estimates of the Methuselah Star’s age, based on updated and improved models of stellar evolution, put its age at 13.7 billion years. That would imply it was one of the first stars formed. (Current estimates place the universe’s age at 13.8 billion years, not 13.7 billion years.) Another estimate, using a different technique, puts its age at 12 billion years.

10. 27 days ago on Day by Dave

    Of course not! It’s obvious from the cartoon that the pumpkin has pumpkin spice (probably a pumpkin spice latte) inside it!