Recent Comments

1. 4 months ago on Frazz

   How soon we forget. There was an article in the news years ago when we moved the clock settings from the April to March dates, and it was all about the Putt-Putt Golf places and the Convenience stores wanting more daylight time so they could get customers who were afraid of the dark. If there was $$$ to be made by changing the system to whatever, it would have already happened. The fact it hasnt’t yet, means a lot of big money businesses haven’t yet got together to figure out a way to squeeze some more cash out of us.

2. 6 months ago on Arlo and Janis

   Happened to me in boot camp. 2nd day of Basic and we’re having our first inspection of uniform, locker and cot, with all our civilian clothes supposedly stored away in a group locked closet, and nothing yet in our laundry bag tied at the end of our cots. Sergeant gets to one airman and finds lumps in his laundry bag and has the airman empty it on the cot which turns out to be his civilian clothes. And he starts giving the airman demerits for each item. Got to the pair of shoes and says for each, ‘1 demerit’, the airman says back, ‘Sarge, that’s a pair of shoes, that’s only 1 demerit.’

3. 7 months ago on Arlo and Janis

   In 5th grade I sent away for a packet of things – sneezing powder – didn’t work, a few other things I forget, but 1 really worked. It was a fake ink spot to put under a fountain pen, and in class while the teacher was away, I slipped it on her open grade book putting the spot over my grades and her pen next to it. She believed it for a moment when she returned. ( A classmate friend brought in, um fake, uh, dog….ok it looked stupid even on the floor, and she guessed correctly that it was…fake) The pen spot wouldn’t work today because not only do most people not use fountain pens, but most today don’t even know or can only vaguely recollect them.

4. 8 months ago on Non Sequitur

   ok, exactly how is the /supposed/ flag pictured here even remotely the Flag of the United States of America? It has 1!!! star not 50, it has 7! stripes not 13, and it looks to me like the color of the field behind the 1 star is black not blue. And I doubt that the red in the stripes is anywhere near the official red of the official USA flag. So who exactly cares about whether or not this presentation of some random design (you do understand that it’s just a beach towel with a fancy design, right?) has any significance…other than what people with very little true knowledge of proper flag etiquette seem to misunderstand. Oh, yeah, I’m of the age where flag etiquette was still taught in school…and in my Boy Scout Troop.

5. 11 months ago on Arlo and Janis

   There’s also Burton C. of the Guess Who.

6. 12 months ago on The Buckets

   My kids are all grown now, but for both of my daughters, I put up the glow in the dark stars for their own bedrooms. For the older at that time I only found a package that had various not particularly true to life designs, for the younger when she came of age I did the whole constellation thing with various size stars matching a little their night time magnitude (Orion, Big Dipper, Cassiopeia, etc), Years later she told me unasked that she really liked it and was glad I had done it. Made my day.

7. about 1 year ago on The Born Loser

   If you’re going to talk Van Morrison, then ‘Bright Side of the Road’ is it. especially Jerry Garcia’s take

8. about 1 year ago on The Middletons

   Isn’t this a riff on a Cheech and Chong song (or was it Peter,Paul, and Mary) where they come to the order box, keep changing the order, and what comes back is nothing but garbled words and the phrase – …and a six pack? The people in car respond, we’ll take it.

9. over 1 year ago on Arlo and Janis

   Happy New Year, JJ. Absolutely love your strip, so much I can relate to, just the two of us now, kids all moved far away, but visiting does work (tho sadly our cat passed away this fall, we’ll be looking for another in the Spring).

10. over 3 years ago on The Born Loser

    Will Iola Morton be next?