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1. over 4 years ago on Wizard of Id Classics

   There was a story about Vermonter Ethan Allen. His wife was concerned about his drinking and had some friends scare him like this cartoon. He said if you be devils, then come along. I married your sister!

2. over 6 years ago on Alley Oop

   I’ve met Dr. Ron Mallett, a professor at UConn who is actually working on time travel, though not given much chance of success. He told me that a group a rich people wanted to buy his research in order to stop it, at least that was their story.

3. over 7 years ago on Broom Hilda

   That’s Harry Turtledove, master of alternate histiry fiction.

4. over 7 years ago on Wizard of Id

   There is only one “moon”. The rest are properly called “natural satellites”. They should be called moons, that’s like calling other planets “earths”. That may happen since the press like to call newly discovered earth-sized planets “earths”.

5. almost 8 years ago on Tank McNamara

   This strip did a take on the McMahon hit, with Buck Baker getting it even worse than McMahon, only his feet were sticking out of the ground. Too bad the archive doesn’t go back to the 80’s.

6. about 8 years ago on Wizard of Id

   A myth from the food nazis and the media, life expectancy is still on the increase and is not even slowing down.

7. over 8 years ago on Pearls Before Swine

   Then let’s ban motorcycles. Banning tobacco would save so much more.

8. over 8 years ago on [Deleted]

   It is in base 3.

9. over 8 years ago on Pearls Before Swine

   As a kid I would find the steepest hills and ride my bike as fast as I could. My speedometer only went up to 50 so I got at least that fast. No helmet; if I hit a pothole I could have become a missile.

   I don’t like seatbelt laws even though I wear one. I’m not hurting anyone else by not wearing one. Its just to raise revenue. Otherwise why not ban motorcycle riding, bungee jumping , mountain climbing and sky diving? Ban tobacco and you could save half a million americans per year, many times more than seatbelts.

   My boss once stuck his hand in a jammed snowblower and almost lost the ends of a couple of his fingers.

10. over 8 years ago on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal

    Comic book tropes aside, if he fought for 6 hours, that would likely be hundreds of opponents. The Joker seems almost immune to being disgusted.