Recent Comments

1. about 13 hours ago on Rip Haywire

   I’m not expecting this “reality” to last, but I am enjoying it.

2. about 14 hours ago on The Grizzwells

   Oh, yeah, in the better neighborhoods I always see the Salvation Army taking prisoners.

3. 1 day ago on Rip Haywire

   I was kind of hoping Breezy and Hazy and Tank Tucker were all being retconned away as something Rip had dreamed while kept being unconscious. Of course that would still leave the whole “call of the wild” topos to be eliminated from continuity and my consciousness …

4. 4 days ago on Ginger Meggs

   I can’t help it, Jason’s pictures of Aggie tied to a tree incongruously remind me of Torquato Tasso’s 1573 verse play Aminta, in which we learn that the gorgeous heroine, Silvia (an immortal nymph, presumably over 18), has been bound naked to a tree by a troll who intends to rape her. Luckily the lovestruck shepherd Aminta (a name which I believe does not mean ginger-haired) is able to rescue her in time.

5. 4 days ago on Bear with Me

   I don’t see how Apple got people to refuse to acknowledge that personal computers made by Apple are personal computers.

6. 4 days ago on The Fusco Brothers

   It’s true in Italian. I never came across that usage in English

7. 7 days ago on Frazz

   Sliced bread as we know it is less than 100 years old! It was advertised as “the greatest forward step in the baking industry since bread was wrapped.” So says Wikipedia.

8. 8 days ago on Edge City

   Sure, Len, and why not slap on some Marmite! Since matzo is itself a bread product, wasn’t the prohibition you were defying really more about yeast?

9. 8 days ago on Daddy's Home

   George Bernard Shaw, having mentioned to an interviewer that he thought a man’s judgment is (in general) superior to a woman’s, asked his wife if that wasn’t true. “Of course, my dear,” she replied. “For instance, you married me. And I married you.”

   Or so I have read.

10. 11 days ago on Edge City

    That’s what I thought.