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1. 15 days ago on Pickles

   In my family, in the past, it was considered necessary to remove footwear before entering the house.

   But the footwear were boots, and the people were dairy farmers.

2. 17 days ago on Pluggers

   “April Phurst”? I don’t see the prank.

3. 19 days ago on Over the Hedge

   Mercury has a sidereal (with respect to the stars) orbital period of 87.9691 (Earth) days. It has a sidereal rotation period of 58.646 days. In other words, It’s tide locked, but it makes 3 rotations for every 2 orbits. (Wikipedia.) Some additional funkiness is due to it having a highly elliptical orbit.

   Mercury was once thought to have a 1:1 orbital resonance, but that turned out to be incorrect.

4. 19 days ago on B.C.

   I watched it (again) recently. I spotted Lenny. Even without the foam rubber ears.

5. 23 days ago on Rubes

   Instead of Gloria Gaynor, we get Gloria Luser.

6. 25 days ago on Over the Hedge

   There were. But I doubt that they had flaming exhausts.

7. 26 days ago on Tank McNamara

   Odor for lightning? Sure. Ozone.

8. 26 days ago on Over the Hedge

   To go from 0 to 60 in 1 second would require (if constant) an acceleration of 2.74g. The car would have rocket thrusters. (I’m not deducing that. Tesla has stated it.) Not sure what the department of transportation would think of that.

   Maybe they’d make it look like the 60s TV Batmobile.

9. 28 days ago on Mother Goose and Grimm

   Drug prices are regulated in Canada.

   But some drugs in the US can vary in price enormously, depending on where you buy them from. I used to buy diclofenac eye drops for my dog. (That’s a common NSAID. An OTC version is Voltaren.) The Costco pharmacy charged roughly 4x what CVS did. (The opposite of what I expected.)

   If that sort of chaos existed in the food market, I think people would notice.

10. 29 days ago on Close to Home

    Most of the versions I’ve seen for this mondegreen, for “That’s Amore”, don’t mention pizza. Or the moon.