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1. 12 days ago on Adam@Home

   He’s not at all successful; his wife is!

   I beg to differ. His wife is an at-home mom. I have never seen her leave to work at a day job and it was only recently that she wrote a popular book, even though we haven’t heard much about it, or the follow-up book she started writing, lately.

   Meanwhile, they live in a very nice house, have a nice minivan and seem to eat quite well. The kids don’t seem to want for anything (except for greedy Katy who will not be happy until she gets a pony), have plenty of toys and art supplies and can afford to spend money on things like extravagant Halloween costumes.Adam can afford to spend money galore on various coffees and coffee schemes, has a fully stocked snack closet and enough money left over to spend on crazy ideas like buying a secondhand jet engine to use as the world’s largest leaf blower. All of this is on the money he has made over the years as a writer.So contrary to what you and several other commenters have expressed in the past, Adam has been very successful in his career as a writer in the same way that Laura has been successful as a mother, wife, friend and recently as a first-time author.
2. 21 days ago on Bloom County

   Hmmmm….I wonder if while eating fried chicken, he thought up the song “Love Me (chicken) Tender”? ☺

3. about 1 month ago on The Argyle Sweater

   Do you mean Carter’s Little Liver Pills®? ☺

   For those who never heard of them: southernliving.COM/culture/carters-little-liver-pills

4. about 1 month ago on 1 and Done

   Or stick them in a blender so that we can have whirled peas.

5. about 2 months ago on Ripley's Believe It or Not

   Okay, to save everyone from the drudgery of Googling it, here is the story.

   The Wiseman family were cleaning out the freezer of their deceased grandmother and found the biscuit along with a note indicating it was made in August of 1940. The family believes that the biscuit was saved by the grandmother-in-law of Wiseman’s great-uncle Harold. The biscuit was likely saved for nostalgic reasons.This is not the end of the biscuit’s story though. The family moved the biscuit to another member of the family’s freezer, so in another half century or so, there may be yet another RBION story on this.

   I now return you to your regularly scheduled program.

6. 3 months ago on Andy Capp

   After checking on Google maps, it seems that @Botulism Bob and @swguthrie are both correct. The problem seems to lie in the fact that the statue does not have an address, which makes sense since it isn’t a building. From what I see, it is next to a park bench that is located between these two addresses, so going to either would bring you within eyeshot of the statue

7. 3 months ago on For Better or For Worse

   A spare is a slot in your course schedule where you have no assigned class. It is supposed to be used as study time, usually in the library.

   Since this is a comic strip and the situation must be used to set up the storyline, I have ignored the error. A spare would not be the first class of the morning, because the first class, also known as homeroom, is when the teachers take attendance for the day and send a list of absentees to the office to have a list quickly printed up and distributed to the rest of the teachers so when they take attendance in their classes during the rest of the day, they know if a student is away that day or just skipping their class.Also, spares usually only end up on a student’s schedule toward the last year or two of high school, usually because they have already taken and passed all the mandatory subjects (such as History, Geography, etc.) that are done within a year or two and only have subjects left that span the five years in high school (Languages, Mathematics, etc.) and aren’t interested in any other classes that may be available.

   So, a first-year student shouldn’t have a spare; if they do, it would not be the day’s first class. FYI, I am Canadian but I do not live in Ontario, so perhaps they did things differently there back then.

   I realize you only asked what a spare was, but this detail has been bugging me since the story arc began. I hope I didn’t make it confusing with my above-and-beyond explanation. ☺

8. 3 months ago on Pearls Before Swine

   This is Pearls Before Swine, not Animal Farm (“No animals shall wear clothes, except pigs”) ☺

9. 3 months ago on For Better or For Worse

   Even though you don’t see many people wearing them these days, I would have thought some commenters here would be old enough to recognize a trench coat when they see one. I have to admit, the colourist did a bad job on it, but it has all the telltale signs; such as wide, tapered lapels, epaulets on the shoulders and a belt to cinch it closed on those blustery days/evenings.

10. 4 months ago on Ripley's Believe It or Not

    I don’t think it was an Olympic pool since they are 50 metres long and Pearlsbs said an article on it stated the pool was 25 metres long.