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1. 1 day ago on Buni

   Back about 45 years ago, a lot of older people in Spain didn’t use deoderant and didn’t change their clothes very often. Especially older men, they’d leave a stela of stink behind them on the street or in the supermarket. It made me very aware of my own odour; I still buy perfumed solid soap bars (harder and harder to find here) and cologne. Not to cover stench (I wash every day), just to make sure I’m pleasant.

2. 1 day ago on Calvin and Hobbes

   Maybe it’s an homage to Charlie Brown’s dad who was a barber.

3. 1 day ago on Pearls Before Swine

   At least in Spain most people have learned it’s cheaper and better to split your vacation time. Nowadays people don’t have the money to pay for exorbitant summer rentals. They take a week or so in July, maybe two weeks in August, and more and more try to keep the week of Christmas to New Year or New Year to Epiphany free.

4. 2 days ago on Buni

   I don’t know if he had some kind of physical problem (like the people with triethlyaminuria who always smell like fish) or just a hygiene problem.

5. 2 days ago on Peanuts

   Back in the day when Snoop Dogg’s albums were being banned from department stores he went by Snoop Doggy Dogg.

6. 2 days ago on Buni

   I’d rather smell soap than shite any day. It was hard to sit next to this guy for 90 minutes several days a week.

7. 2 days ago on Buni

   I had a student like this. Not kidding. He worked in HR for a supermarket chain, and he’d come to English tutoring sessions smelling like a toilet. Designer clothes, made to order shoes, and a reek of gas station toilet at 10 AM. I couldn’t bring myself to say, “Dude, you stink” but I did wonder how or why no one in his household ever mentioned it.

8. 2 days ago on Peanuts

   If he did, you wouldn’t want to eat it, Snoopy. It would be poisoned, or have Ex-Lax icing.

9. 2 days ago on Pearls Before Swine

   Bob lives to work, Pig works to live.

10. 3 days ago on Peanuts

    Never start by telling people “here’s what you did wrong” if you really want to help them learn. Try something like “It might help if you…”