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   mrbribery said, 7 months ago

   don’t be too quick to decide- can we definitely rule out Howard Hughes, or Herbert Hoover?
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   Wolind Quark said, 7 months ago

   That is true. However, 88 in that digital format looks like a B, making the clue BB. And, we have a Brian Bigelow. NOT a particularly well done puzzle.
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   Kuldip Rai said, 7 months ago

   Yup, I was guessing Brian Bigelow too, because of the 8 looking like a digital B
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   Tue Elung-Jensen said, 7 months ago

   What fine detective work… Using terms as “could be” and “actually proved to be” gives such confidence :)
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   Michael McMillan said, 7 months ago

   The clue is lame, no doubt. But, it gives a starting point for the real detective work. You couldn’t effect an arrest on that “88” but you could get an idea of which one was most worth investigating.
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   joe piglet said, 7 months ago

   Just checking the GOOGLE, it seems there are not many 88.0 FM radio stations in NA, but more in foreign countries, so the Inspector probably caught the first suspect and had the local police beat the confession out of him.
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   Darren Blair said, 7 months ago

   @joe piglet

   The author made up a completely fictional station for the sake of the strip.
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   The big clue about the station being fictional is the fact that the call letters start with “X”. Unless there’s something I missed, American radio and television stations all start with either “K” or “W”.
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   The Wolf In Your Midst said, 7 months ago

   @Darren Blair

   Not only that, but the station Alfie mentions has an even decimal (88.0). Every radio station I’ve ever heard broadcasts on a frequency with an odd decimal (101.3, 97.5, etc).
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   route66paul said, 7 months ago

   Mexican stations begin with “X”. A few border FM stations broadcast with high power and were heard all over Calif. That is how Wolfman Jack got started.
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    John Russell said, 7 months ago

    lame at best. why do I insist on reading this strip? I donotno~
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    joe piglet said, 7 months ago

    @Darren Blair

    I knew the solution even before I read it. I was just adding my 3 cents.
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    stingray74 said, 7 months ago

    Do we get to strip-search Ursula?
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    danketaz said, 7 months ago

    I was expecting a pianist reference, myself.
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    Jim Kleinhans said, 7 months ago

    The main clue was “numerologist” – Substituting letters for numbers, not looking at numbers that look like letters.
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    Bargrove said, 7 months ago

    Yes, Russo, and why do I read yours? Please go away.
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