Recent Comments

1. over 3 years ago on For Better or For Worse

   The comic strip is set in Canada and written by a Canadian. Don’t blame everything on the US.

2. over 3 years ago on FoxTrot

   Seedless grapes are grown from clones of the original mutant vine, but seedless watermelons are grown from seeds. To get seeds for seedless watermelons, they chemically mutate watermelon plants to have four copies of their genetic code (instead of the normal two) Then they cross the mutant four copy with the normal two copy, and get seeds with three copies. The three copy seeds are what you plant to get seedless watermelon.

3. almost 6 years ago on Li'l Abner

   It’s a rather impressive hat band he’s got there.

4. almost 8 years ago on Frazz

   That’s a bit misleading. They are trying to compare irrigated crop acres, not total acres. There are an estimated 40 million acres of turf grass and 94 million acres of corn in the United States. But only about 10-12% of the corn is irrigated. The comparison is only valid if you assume that all the turf grass is irrigated. I wasn’t able to find any good estimates for that number. The point of the original study was that lawns probably use more irrigation water than any other crop, but it kinda got lost along the way.