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   Margueritem said, 3 months ago

   About time he took that thumb out of his mouth. He was developing a callus.

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   ejcapulet said, 3 months ago

   I don’t know, Marg, if it keeps him from talking.

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   pschearer said, 3 months ago

   Nine is higher than most people can manage. Testing of this sort of thing has been going on for over a century, and the range, varying by individual, is normally 5 to 9, with 7 showing up so often that it has been called “the magic number”.

   Novelist and philosopher Ayn Rand used the insight of the finite capacity of human perception and memory to explain the need for conceptual thinking. It makes no difference that you can only hold a few, let’s say, apples in your mind at one time if you have the concept of “apple” which applies universally to all apples that are, were, or ever will be. It is this conceptual multiplier that allows us to advance from apples to an understanding of atoms and galaxies.

   On the other hand, for the residents of this cartoon, I suspect the magic number is closer to 4.

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   Ray C said, 3 months ago

   pschearer: …and for the readers?

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   MisngNOLA said, 3 months ago

   Wait, what?

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   nighthawks said, 3 months ago

   did anybody spot the eyeball ?

   channel selector, mayhab?

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   terrabeth7776 said, 3 months ago

   I think it must be the channel selector.

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   reocare said, 3 months ago

   agree, terrbeth

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   WARREN JONES said, 3 months ago

   TV knob is eyeball

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    nirmalamac said, 3 months ago

    I vote the television knob, as well.