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1. about 5 hours ago on FoxTrot Classics

   I once learned a way you could beat someone in six moves. To do it, you had to be white, and they had to respond to your first couple moves a certain way (or rather not a certain way, it was really easy to defend against). I once played six or seven games in a row with the same opponent, and she never figured it out. I had to show her.

2. about 5 hours ago on Ziggy

   It’s not paranoia if they really are out to get you.

3. about 5 hours ago on Garfield

   Is it worse than Attack of the Killer Tomatoes?

4. about 5 hours ago on B.C.

   “we should be somewhere in between the two.”

   We are. Most adults are somewhere between wolves and elephants.

5. about 5 hours ago on Luann Againn

   Giraffes have the same number of neck vertebrae as humans.

6. about 19 hours ago on Back to B.C.

   I had to look it up, but Wikipedia says it’s a “Cantilever bridge (eastbound), Continuous truss bridge (westbound), and Suspension bridges (both spans)”. It was the Chesapeake Bay Bridge.

7. about 19 hours ago on Pearls Before Swine

   “When you gave someone your phone number, did you use a phrase like “Commodore 4” or “Waterfall 8?””

   When I lived in Tulsa, our phone number started with “Webster”.

8. about 19 hours ago on FoxTrot Classics

   “And what we needed was a school that required boys to take home ec as well”

   Icelandic schools require boys to take home ec. and girls have to take woodworking.

9. 1 day ago on Pearls Before Swine

   “I remember my parents phone, you had to lift the mouthpiece off the cradle and then crank the handle to connect to the operator.”

   My paternal grandparents had one like that, only you didn’t have to call the operator. Each farm had it’s own ring. For example, one farm would be 2 long rings and one short, while another farm was 3 short rings, one long and one short.

10. 1 day ago on FoxTrot Classics

    I once saw a documentary series called Jamie’s School Dinners, where Jamie Oliver taught dinner ladies (“lunch ladies” for Americans) how to cook “real” food. After that, they did study that showed that the kids’ grades had gone up as a result. There was one case where the kids were getting nothing but junk food and sweets at home, and Jamie went and taught the mother to cook. It completely fixed the kids’ hyperactivity.

    I haven’t lived in America since 1975, but from what I’ve heard, you need something like that there.