Recent Comments

1. about 7 hours ago on Frazz

   I’m pretty sure that I can re-derive the quadratic formula if I need it.

   I rarely use above the algebra I learned in high school, or at least what I should have learned in high school. (I use algebra when sewing surprisingly often.)

   In college, the “how to teach math” course met immediately after the first-year algebra class.   The first-year students had used the same book in high school and thought they knew everything, so we got treated to some war stories.

   One day we came in to find that the blackboards covering three of the walls were covered with mathematical notation.   We said “What happened?” and the instructor said, with satisfaction, “They asked a question and I answered it.”

2. about 7 hours ago on Wizard of Id

   And pit toilets generally have pits underneath, not green grass.

   I once attended an air show run by people who did not know that.   They did scrape a small patch of sod off.

3. 1 day ago on Frazz

   " bike lanes that aren’t being used or being used improperly."   Using a bike lane at all is using it improperly.

   The proponents of these death traps openly admit that the purpose of “bike lanes” is to lure inexperienced riders into situations that they can’t handle.

4. 2 days ago on Sherman's Lagoon

   The top may have more oxygen .

5. 2 days ago on B.C.

   I used to climb the tree under my neighbor’s bedroom window every sunset, bring my rooster down, and put him in a box in the basement.

   You can sneak dawn past a rooster.

6. 4 days ago on Frazz

   One day I was exploring new territory on my bike, and needed a place to eat lunch without stepping on any crops.   I found a field with a patch worn by vehicle traffic and pulled off there.   The cows in the adjoining pasture began drifting toward the fence and lined up to watch me.

   It wasn’t until they began yelling at me that I realized that the vehicle that had worn off the grass was their food truck.

7. 5 days ago on Brewster Rockit

   The “turn” was the period shortly before and shortly after.   It doesn’t need a precise middle.

8. 5 days ago on Brewster Rockit

   Because we can’t hear the data over the shrieking of people who are using climate change to push their favorite agendas.

   Hate something?   It’s obviously the primary cause of climate change.

   And, of course, all change is bad with no silver linings.

9. 5 days ago on MythTickle

   The hoof rumor probably started with calf’s-foot jelly.   It’s easy for a city feller to confuse feet and hooves.

10. 7 days ago on Phoebe and Her Unicorn

    Which civil war?