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1. 20 days ago on Frazz

   Not randomly in the streets, though. For a smile, look up the video “togs or undies” for a modern equivalent.

2. 20 days ago on Frazz

   Plus, think of the macaques of jigokudani (sp?) who like to sit in hot springs… “We” have probably been willingly sitting in natural water pools since before we were homosapiens.

3. 20 days ago on Frazz

   Google minoan queen’s bath knossos. The Minoans had sub-floor heating (not entirely unlike the traditional korean version?) and tubs for those few who could afford them.

   Plus there’s a reason that dunking oneself in the ocean (river, stream, pond etc) is also called “bathing.” Full immersion was an element of cleanliness, And bathing as a concept was a thing, long before constructed bathtubs were invented (which had to wait for the technology of concrete /water tight mortar / Making and moving large ceramic objects without cracking / metalworking etc).

4. 21 days ago on Frazz

   The act of getting into the bath Is what led to his understanding of water being displaced by solids, and thus giving a way to precisely measure the volume of irregular solids.

   There’s also the bit about buoyancy (where density of an object vs the water it displaces) determines whether it floats or sinks. So maybe he looked down while getting in?

5. about 1 month ago on Get Fuzzy

   She was an herbalist / healer /nutritionist as well. People have written cookbooks from the recipes and precepts scattered throughout her writings.

6. 2 months ago on Pearls Before Swine

   The history of east and west liberty are interesting- -a “liberty” was like a British “commons.”

7. 2 months ago on Pearls Before Swine

   In pittsburgh it’s mild, though the derivation is presumably the same. In some parts of the UK, wanker is similarly fairly mild.

8. 2 months ago on Rudy Park

   Google, “read-the-1985-comic-strip-that-inspired-the-bechdel-test”

9. 2 months ago on Rudy Park

   This has only the most tenuous connection to the original formulation of the test. >

10. 3 months ago on Breaking Cat News

    So either he decided it wasn’t funny, if the reverse of"writing desk" wasn’t also somehow incorporated…or he forgot his own joke…or he wasn’t actually the source of the (supposed) correction…or it was an error from the start, which was allowed to pass in the original because lucky placement transformed it into wordplay???