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1. about 4 hours ago on The Buckets

   I remember seeing one of my Grandmother’s soap opera shows once when I was a kid in the 70’s- they expressed how rich the Rich Guy in the soap was by revealing that he had a car phone. The case it was in took up most of the trunk of his car. Nobody was gonna crash the car when they were using it, ’cause you hadda be stopped somewhere to do everything it required for making a call.

2. 1 day ago on The Buckets

   I actually did tell my family that they could not get another cat unless I got to name it. The cat’s name, I insisted, would be “Batman” so that my family would be out on the front porch calling “Batman! Batman!” at mealtime. They refused, and eventually I said that I’d quit arguing if the cat’s name were “Booboo B. Batman”, “Booboo” being a fellow that worked in my grandparents dental lab and everyone liked, now deceased but memorialized in a cat’s name. Not only did they agree, but my youngest suggested that the middle “B” could stand for “Beeblebrox”. Extra points if you get that reference.

3. 7 days ago on B.C.

   Yeah, but not until it’s launched into a future spacetime by some computer-savvy Canadaman.

4. 7 days ago on B.C.

   Thanks! I guess I owe Mason a meal or something at the next meeting.

5. 10 days ago on The Buckets

   The bit about the generator coming on and the checkout people using company cell phones got cut out… ‘cause it wasn’t funny. I lived through it once, though. Everyone worked very hard to make it happen.

6. 10 days ago on The Buckets

   It takes, roughly, two and a half seconds to read the average comic strip. Figuring that there’s a little time between comics that we don’t see… I figure this arc has run us abooooouuuuut… an hour. Maybe. On the other hand, I know several people who used to watch soap operas. By THEIR timescales, we’ve been in this arc about ten minutes and it’s due to last another six months whereupon we discover that everyone has amnesia, and that Eddie was adopted by Larry and Sarah, but who turn out to be his biological parents anyhow. …Hmm…That MAY have gotten away from me there a little bit.

7. 11 days ago on The Buckets

   “now”? When I was a kid a half of a century ago, my brother and I panicked when the TV wasn’t working.

8. 13 days ago on The Buckets

   If I thought there were time, and if there were a market I could put it in, by golly, I’d prob’ly give it a try.

9. 13 days ago on The Buckets

   Aaaand voila- the Day Shift are the “monsters under the beds” of the Night Shift. I now return you to your regularly scheduled comic strip, and thank you for indulging me with my Captain McCosmic fun.

10. 13 days ago on The Buckets

    Well, after all, they’re not planets… they’re TV studio sets.

    …

    One of the reasons I like Futurama is how they make silly fun of stuff like that- moon farmers living under a dome and in spacesuits, high gravity planet where pillows have to be delivered on an industrial handtruck… I figure Captain McCosmic runs along those lines.