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1. about 1 month ago on Brewster Rockit

   Happy PI π Day. The Greek Letter π was first used as shorthand for π by Welsh mathematician William Jones in 1706—more than three hundred years ago. Also somewhat ironically, Albert Einstein was born this day in 1879, and Stephen Hawking died this day in 2018—Hawking was born on January 8, the day Galileo died. Quite a pair of bookends to Hawkings life.

2. about 1 month ago on Pearls Before Swine

   Have you read the poem? Frost is saying just the opposite. It is the neighbor, who the narrator is helping, who says that. The narrator does not agree. Though the narrator comes together with his neighbor to repair the wall, he regards it an act of stupidity. He believes that in fact both of them don’t need a wall. He asks why should there be a wall, when his neighbor has only pine trees and he has apples. How could his apple trees go across the border and eat his neighbor’s pine cones. Moreover there is no chance of offending one and another as they don’t also have any cows at their homes. While the narrator tries to make his neighbor understand that they don’t need a wall, his neighbor is a stone-headed savage, who only believes in his father’s age-old saying that, “Good fences make good neighbors.”

3. 4 months ago on Lola

   None before just finding this—According to Wikipedia:

   “The cat’s meow,” an expression referring to something that is considered outstanding; coined by American cartoonist Thomas A. Dorgan (1877–1929)

   Dorgan is generally credited with either creating or popularizing such words and expressions as “dumbbell” (a stupid person); “for crying out loud” (an exclamation of astonishment); “cat’s meow” and “cat’s pajamas” (as superlatives); “applesauce” (nonsense); “cheaters” (eyeglasses); “skimmer” (a hat); “hard-boiled” (tough and unsentimental); “drugstore cowboy” (a loafer or ladies’ man); “nickel-nurser” (a miser); “as busy as a one-armed paperhanger” (overworked); and “Yes, we have no bananas,” which was turned into a popular song. In addition to his humorous and sports-related cartoons, Dorgan also drew political cartoons, such as this example, “The Road to Dividends”, in which a young child is weighed down by a heavy burden while several wealthy men march behind her.In the New York Times obituary, he was bracketed with George Ade and Ring Lardner as a popularizer of “a new slang vernacular.” His obituary also credited him as the originator of “Twenty-three, Skidoo,” “solid ivory,” “Dumb Dora,” “finale hopper,” “Benny” for hat, and “dogs’” for shoes.1 W. J. Funk, of the Funk and Wagnall’s dictionary company, placed Dorgan at the top of the list of the ten “most fecund makers of American slang.”

4. 4 months ago on Lola

   Perhaps, but he said “rhyming animal parts.”

5. 4 months ago on Luann

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6. 5 months ago on Frazz

   Which “The New York Saturday Review” published on November 18, 1865. And this last Saturday happened to be the eighteenth.

7. 6 months ago on Moderately Confused

   See “ The Meaning of Lila” today.

8. 6 months ago on Arlo and Janis

   Check top left corner.

9. 7 months ago on Prickly City

   Except Carmen – “a ‘feisty’ conservative and a Republican. For a brief time, she had a crush on Tucker Carlson. Carmen made her first appearance at least 4 months before the strip began, in one of Stantis’s editorial cartoons.“

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10. 7 months ago on Broom Hilda

    Indeed it is, and he meant it ironically, fences doing just the opposite of making good neighbors.

    “Before I built a wall I’d ask to know

    What I was walling in or walling out,

    And to whom I was like to give offense.

    Something there is that doesn’t love a wall,

    That wants it down.’ I could say ‘Elves’ to him,

    But it’s not elves exactly, and I’d rather

    He said it for himself.“