Recent Comments

1. about 10 hours ago on Looks Good on Paper

   Ach, you’re mother rides a vacuum cleaner. (Actually demonstrated by Cathy Najimy in "Hocus Pocus).

2. about 10 hours ago on Ozy and Millie

   “Once the (windmills) are up, who cares where they come down, that’s not my department said Werner von Braun” Thank you Tom Lehrer for that memorable lyric.

3. 1 day ago on Reality Check

   When asked where the $10 million went that he earned over his career, George Raft replied, “Part of the loot went for gambling, part for horses, part for women. The rest I spent foolishly.”

4. 3 days ago on Crabgrass

   The boys are definitely not Pluggers yet. (today’s “Pluggers” strip on Gocomics.)

5. 3 days ago on Crabgrass

   Reminiscent of the line from W. C. Fields and Me (1976) where Fields (Rod Steiger) makes a rude comment about Carlotta Monti’s (Valerie Perrine) singing "Sounds like a monsoon whistling out an aardvarks a$$hole.

6. 3 days ago on Prickly City

   Shared a bedroom with two brothers first 12 years of my life, and one bathroom for a family of five. No AC, dishwasher, one television and we survived. When I sold the first house I purchased, it went for 32 K over what I had paid but that was after totally redoing the bathroom, kitchen, master bedroom and basement family room. First thing the people who bought it did was to rip out the new vinyl floor covering in the enclosed breezeway, rip out some of the kitchen cabinets for a dishwasher and removed a high-end double side window with a French style door (didn’t like that access to back yard was through the garage). The placed the window on the curb for trash pickup (only four years old) and when I saw that, I picked it up and took it home where a neighbor saw it and purchased it for 50 bucks.

7. 3 days ago on Prickly City

   I blame HGTV and similar shows on other channels for part of the inflated size of homes and outrageous “amenities”-“We’ll buy this 6-year-old house for 1.2 million and spend 600 K renovating.” It is difficult to find the size of houses that were built in the 50s and 60s today.

8. 3 days ago on Crabgrass

   Cue Carly Simon for the joys of anticipation.

9. 3 days ago on Crabgrass

   Just wait until the Elves unionize and strike right before Christmas.

10. 10 days ago on Rose is Rose

    I learned to cook for my mother’s palate, so no spicy foods. I learned about the pleasures of adding chili powder and some of “Francis’s” hot sauce so I can season my plate to my heart’s content. (Usually buy the sauce in the quart size container which lasts about a month-I put that stuff on pretty much everything in lieu of the saltshaker (slightly less sodium than table salt).