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1. about 12 hours ago on Over the Hedge

   A sufficiently motivated feline could knock RJ sideways.

   …Especially if it was one of the larger breeds.

   I’ve had cats for 35 years at this point, and can tell you that you have to respect how vicious they can be when in the middle of a fight.

2. about 12 hours ago on Over the Hedge

   Cats were never properly “domesticated” and simply cohabitate with humans by choice.

   If so motivated, a housecat can and will remind everyone of this fact.

   If it tells you anything, a cat I had some years ago actually cornered a burglar in the house. Dude was afraid for his life; the cat was just sitting there watching him.

3. about 12 hours ago on Nancy

   There are, IRL, trendy furniture companies that make oddball furniture like this, bookcases and whatnot with angled shelves.

4. about 13 hours ago on Doonesbury

   Not only has Gannett begun to drop Doonesbury from the comics section of all newspapers they own, several individual newspapers – like the Dallas Morning News – have decided that the current-era Sundays are far too spicy for their tastes and so have stopped carrying them.

   The sad, unfortunate truth is that Doonesbury is now stumbling towards obscurity because of all of this. It’s entirely possible that the general public will largely forget about the strip within the next few years.

5. 2 days ago on Brevity

   The interlude at the end of “Blue Dress” is also regarded as a hidden track, although it’s simply entitled “Interlude 3” in reference to the fact that it’s the third interlude the band has done as a hidden track; the first one was at the tail end of “Music For The Masses”.

6. 3 days ago on Herb and Jamaal

   Also, in order for a society to be healthy and strong, it must periodically test old and new against each other in order to determine the best way forward.

   The testing process rarely goes as smoothly as people think it does.

7. 3 days ago on Bob the Squirrel

   There have been other problems that have been persisting for a while, such as the “Updated Today” page actually linking to strips 1 – 2 days old and the site sometimes requiring multiple attempts to sign in. That would suggest something on the back end isn’t working properly.

8. 3 days ago on Brevity

   The “Violator” album was deliberately made to have a dark, moody, and at times sinister atmosphere. As a result, it’s quite hit or miss, especially compared to their poppy synth-driven 1980s material.

   The single release of “Enjoy The Silence” was the most commercial thing on there, although that hasn’t stopped people from grossly misinterpreting “Personal Jesus”.

   I say “single release” as the album version of “Enjoy The Silence” has an interlude appended to the end called “Crucified”. On the CD release, they’re a single track even though “Crucified” really should be counted separately.

9. 3 days ago on BFGF Syndrome

   Back in the 1990s Marvel Comics did a big story arc in which one of The Incredible Hulk’s friends got married. Since it was a friend of Hulk’s, that meant the Avengers wound up getting involved in the festivities.

   In one issue Captain America rents a VFW hall for the bachelor party, leaving the entertainment up to some of the other Avengers. They hire a stripper for the night, but deliberately use an obscure term that leaves Captain America thinking they hired a magician until such time as the stripper shows up and does her routine, much to his confusion.

10. 3 days ago on FoxTrot Classics

    There are, indeed, younger individuals who no longer understand what the origin is for various popular terms or whose lives are such that they lack understanding of what’s going on outside of whatever very narrow focus they’ve chosen or been shunted into.

    So it’s hypothetically possible that, given the somewhat fluid canon for the strip, at this point in time Jason either didn’t know what one was or had forgotten all about them.