Recent Comments

1. 9 days ago on Monty

   I had a newer Elton John song lyric running through my brain for MONTHS with pauses. “We were crazy, wild and running, blind to the change to come.” Except that I couldn’t quite make them out, so I couldn’t figure out where the lyric came from.

2. 15 days ago on Over the Hedge

   To be honest, what I think is

   nothing really rhymes with “Twinkies.”

   Even kids who play with Slinkies

   know that nothing rhymes with “Twinkies.”

   Velma, Scooby’s pal’d say "Jinkies!

   I know zero rhymes with ‘Twinkies.’"

   Even babies, sucking binkies,

   know you can’t find rhymes for “Twinkies.”

   So “spatula” will just have to do the job.

3. 16 days ago on Betty

   Well, of course do-it-yourself is a lot more work. By definition, it entails doing stuff yourself even though you usually wouldn’t have.

4. 16 days ago on For Better or For Worse

   All “n-word” jokes aside, the issue here is that you’re setting the kids up for the tricky task of knowing which words actually begin with an N.

   Sure, knock-kneed knaves know, and knights with knitwear know, but kids lack the knack of knowing this knotty problem’s answer—which N-sounding words actually begin with an N?

5. 24 days ago on Cathy Classics

   Diet soda? Eh. No point, unless you prefer the flavor. Cut down on the soda entirely, and when you do allow yourself some, go for the real stuff.

6. 28 days ago on Bozo

   3: No, friend, but it might be Chinese. Mandarin is a spoken dialect, and it’s written just like, say, Cantonese. :)

   (Source: Read it on the Internet.)

7. about 1 month ago on Edge City

   “I know that Rosh Hashanah is the Jewish New Year, Abby. This isn’t my first rodeo.”

8. about 1 month ago on Bozo

   I’m not sure why GoComics should give Bozo attention based on the comment-to-follower ratio. Based on its high quality, sure, it deserves that. But the comment-to-follower ratio seems irrelevant.

9. about 1 month ago on Bozo

   I keep seeing it in old comic strips… I do wonder how often real people tried to look in through a knothole. It’s hard to tell here, on another continent in another century, what was real and what was a common comics trope. Like the organ grinder with a monkey. How common were they, I wonder…

10. about 1 month ago on Luann

    I try to bring a crossword magazine with me, or a novel, wherever I go, to have something to do when this happens. It’s not to be passive-aggressive, though I can’t deny that it doesn’t bother me if that’s the effect that ends up occuring.