Recent Comments

1. about 3 hours ago on Calvin and Hobbes

   When I moved to Europe I just ditched the US system along with its coinage, and figured a kilo of potatoes is so many, a litre of milk is this much, a metre is just over a yard so if you’re making seat covers you need this many metres of upholstery. Same thing when the Euro replaced local coinage; you can bet prices went up a bit, but all I did was comparison shop for a day or two to find out who had the best prices on staple products.

2. about 12 hours ago on Calvin and Hobbes

   The only song my dad could sing.

3. about 13 hours ago on Calvin and Hobbes

   I love you, a bushel and a peck, a bushel and a peck and a hug around the neck.

4. about 13 hours ago on Buni

   Well, that idea was for the birds…

5. 1 day ago on Peanuts Begins

   “You should have asked for one.” No, Violet, you should have offered one. In those days, a kid asking for a snack they hadn’t been offered in someone else’s house would have been seen as rude. A glass of water, okay, but “can I have one of those donuts”, no.

6. 2 days ago on Peanuts Begins

   Back in the old days, country kids spoke of “sods” to mean hardened clumps of earth. I know we did. We also threw them at each other. The “sods” from the cornfield in autumn were as hard as rocks, and as painful to be hit with.

7. 3 days ago on Peanuts Begins

   Confession is good for the soul; unfortunately it is often rotten for the body.

8. 3 days ago on Calvin and Hobbes

   His train of thought has gone chuff chuff chuff round the bend.

9. 3 days ago on Peanuts

   He forgot PBS, the Public Beagle Services!

10. 5 days ago on Peanuts Begins

    This is still a comic strip. Or do you think cartoon physics works IRL? Don’t get hit by a train, you won’t bounce back like the coyote.