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1. 18 minutes ago on Super-Fun-Pak Comix

   First television broadcast: The Queen’s Messenger, on WGY, Schenectady NY; Sept. 11, 1928.

2. 27 minutes ago on FoxTrot Classics

   Beer. It seems that these days only Red Stripe comes in that kind of bottle, but they were ubiquitous for a few decades.

   And really, John – liking your own comment?

3. 33 minutes ago on The Buckets

   “Idiot box” still works. And is even more accurate with games.

4. about 19 hours ago on Frazz

   “It ain’t bragging if it’s true is not what I said.

   If he were saying it to his peers (as if any of the other kids could claim to be that), or to the teacher in a different context or in a different way, it could be bragging. In the statement he made, in the context in which he made it and the audience to which he made it, it was a simple statement of fact.

   Yes, words do have meaning – and need you are misunderstanding the meaning of his – and my – words.

5. about 20 hours ago on Reality Check

   There is a big difference between toggling off or on in response to a pre-entered set of parameters, and making an actual decision based on rapidly and constantly changing data. No computer can remotely approach the human brain for that.

6. about 20 hours ago on Frazz

   Though I did try it in my youth; more wired than I ever was with amphetamines.

7. about 20 hours ago on Frazz

   Well, perhaps; one of my great-grandmothers spent the day chewing coffee beans, and even I am not that much of a purist!

8. about 22 hours ago on Frazz

   Not bragging; just a statement of fact.

9. about 22 hours ago on Frazz

   I reject the idea of hyperdescent in either folks or bean.

   Though I will insist that the addition of any adulterants negates any claim of coffeedom; either it’s pure or it ain’t coffee!

   And no – in order to preserve the domestic tranquility, I am not showing this post to The Lovey & Charming Mrs. Cowboy, a cream-and-sugar girl………

   (See, mixed marriages can work!)

10. about 22 hours ago on Agnes

    If we could still do attachments here, I’d provide you with “Blues Rules”.