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1. about 20 hours ago on The Dinette Set

   This reminds me of an encounter a well-known celebrity had in DC one summer. He tried to cut in line at a popular ice cream venue in Georgetown. “Do you know who I am?” he shouted. The answer, almost universally, was “Yeah, you’re a rude moron. Don’t expect us to wait in line to see your movies, either.”

2. about 20 hours ago on Peanuts

   That’s a difficult post to like, because of some of the issues involved, but I do understand what you are saying. We should be encouraged that the nature of Wikipedia allows for their ‘facts’ to evolve.

3. 3 days ago on Peanuts

   From my in-laws, we inherited a lot of old history text books from the 1920s through 1950s. It is appalling how racist and elitist some of those books are. Conversely, most Wikipedia articles I’ve read have been more balanced. One reason for reading older books is to get an understanding how the printed-word slanted public opinion. For example, one would never find mention of the Tulsa race-riots in those old text books, but one does find a lot of Uncle Tom and Uncle Remus attitudes.

4. 3 days ago on Peanuts

   Or… Patti could ask for a library pass.

5. 3 days ago on Frazz

   Exactly. Stores tend to carry a limited number of styles and very few sizes (usually the smallest ones.) Also, finding a person to help you has become more and more difficult. “What you see is all we have” might be true or it might mean the sales person doesn’t want to look, or (sometimes) doesn’t know where to look.

6. 3 days ago on The Dinette Set

   If Gene Kelly, Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers could all dance on roller skates, why not Michael Flatley on ice skates?

7. 3 days ago on Cathy Classics

   Yup. I’ve been in that store. Now, I steer clear of it. It’s much easier to abandon online shopping carts.

8. 8 days ago on Frazz

   Thanks, I thought I typed that but …pesky auto correct.

9. 8 days ago on Rose is Rose

   Our local crows always wash their food in our birdbaths. There’s nothing quite like soaked peanuts and cheezits and bits of old pizza to sully the water.

10. 8 days ago on Ben

    Around our house when we were kids, rainy days in April always meant playing in the woods and fishing trips for trout.