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1. about 9 hours ago on Sherman's Lagoon

   But of course he IS! He learned the martial arts from Miss Piggy: “Hi-yaaaa!”

2. 2 days ago on Mike Luckovich

   “Ownin’ the libs … all Yanks an’ N__rs gotta die … Make ‘MuriKKKa Confederate Ag’in … Trump is Gawwwwd!”

   If the Johnny Reb filth are honest about it (fat chance!), I think their answers would sound rather like that.

3. 2 days ago on Nick Anderson

   “Exit, pursued by a bear.” — Stage direction, ending a scene in The Winter’s Tale, William Shakespeare, 1623 (alleged to be the most famous stage direction in any of Shakespeare’s plays)

4. 3 days ago on Nick Anderson

   I don’t think crap, at least when coming from most people, human people, is usually quite that toxic.

5. 3 days ago on Sherman's Lagoon

   Suddenly I’m remembering the time Sherman investigated the killing of his brother, shot dead with a spear gun. June of ’96, I think. Sherman put on a deerstalker cap and had a (tobacco) pipe. He asked Megan when she last saw his brother:

   …

   …

   She replied that it was when she shot him with the spear gun. “It was an accident. I was cleaning it and it went off. … Had to clean it twice – missed him the first time.”

6. 5 days ago on Shoe

   Walter Mitty and I agree with you.

7. 5 days ago on Shoe

   A few years before I retired, one of my supervisors asked what casually how I planned to supplement my retirement pay. I replied, also casually, that I was thinking about bank robbery – “knocking over banks” was the exact phrase I used. A stunned quality in her silence gave me the impression she took me seriously for a few moments….

8. 5 days ago on Shoe

   As the punchline to the old joke goes: “Morris,” God said, “at least meet Me halfway on this. Buy a lottery ticket!”

9. 5 days ago on Fred Basset

   It may not be just British. A novel back in the ’70s had a scene of the main character discovering some very disturbing personal information while aboard a French airliner. When the flight attendant asked what was so suddenly troubling him, he explained it away with the French for “crisis of the liver.”

10. 6 days ago on Frank and Ernest

    Last August, a friend emailed a version of the old joke about a truckload of thesauri spilling all over the street, and the “varied” reactions of witnesses. I replied:

    “I laugh, chuckle, chortle, guffaw, snicker, cackle, titter, snort, cachinnate (now that’s an odd one), ROFLMAO, am in stitches, split my sides….”