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The Brooklyn Accent Free

Born two years after Charlie Brown's debut; mainframe geek for three decades for a great metropolitan bank, now mostly retired but doing a few gigs as a spelling and grammar geek. I've identified with Charlie Brown as a kid, Mike Doonesbury in college, Dilbert at work, and Opus in my free time.

Recent Comments

  1. about 18 hours ago on Pearls Before Swine

    Many decades ago, the late Burl Ives sang a song about a “man-eating shark” that would eat neither woman nor child. (You can find it if you search YouTube for “chivalrous shark”.)

  2. about 18 hours ago on Non Sequitur

    They aren’t ignorant of the fact that you’re not ignorant?

  3. about 18 hours ago on Non Sequitur

    “I’d rather be happy than right any day.”—Slartibartfast

  4. about 18 hours ago on Reality Check

    I rather prefer curves to angles.

  5. about 18 hours ago on Off the Mark

    “A sign lit up, saying ‘Please do not press this button again.’”

  6. about 18 hours ago on Super-Fun-Pak Comix

    But he did not overshoot the deputy.

  7. about 18 hours ago on Broom Hilda

    I don’t think so. The weirdness is mostly in the middle panel, to emphasize Broomie’s diabolical scheme. Go back to the earliest strip in GoComics’s archive (2001, though Myers has been drawing it since 1970) and you’ll see some other weird expressions on her face.

  8. about 19 hours ago on Kliban

    Some religions instruct you to turn the other cheek.

  9. about 19 hours ago on Loose Parts

    “Hey, respect a veteran! I fought in the Battle of the Bilge!”

  10. about 19 hours ago on Loose Parts

    It’s an easy way to motivate them to expand their vocabulary. It’s even easier in these days when they don’t have to get up and find a dictionary but can just search the web for unfamiliar terms.

    You consider “bilge” a big word? I hope you don’t ever catch pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis.