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1. 15 days ago on Moderately Confused

   Right. Roughly the same era for me. Tuition $125/semester. Worked at Sears for $1.80/hour (not much above minimum wage), 16-20 hr/week. So I could pay for tuition working 70 hours. Tuition at that fairly low-rated state school is now $9500/semester, and the minumum wage is $7.45. So let’s say you are making $9/hour. That’s over 1000 hours to pay tuition. If you figure 20 weeks during the semester and the breaks, you’d have to work 50 hours a week — far too may to carry a full class load.

2. about 2 months ago on Real Life Adventures

   My wife did her first colonoscopy a few weeks before mine. She was worried about the temptation to get up in the middle of the night and eat, so she suggested we go to a hotel “and have a romantic evening” away from the refrigerator. But she took her first dose of the enema before the “romantic evening” part, and there most definitely wasn’t any “romantic evening” after that.

3. about 2 months ago on Big Nate

   Freud’s “Civilization and Its Discontents” is pretty awful.

4. about 2 months ago on Andertoons

   Poop jokes for April Fool’s Day?

5. about 2 months ago on Cleats

   I biked the Tour de Tucson last November, which at the top end is a race, but a participation event at my level, really. I had two timing chips — one on me, one on the bike.

6. about 2 months ago on Cleats

   Nice recovery, Dad!

7. about 2 months ago on Luann

   The whole split infinitive thing is needless grammatical nitpicking. I’ve read that it goes back to Latin, where the infinitive is one word, rather than two. But maybe that’s why Latin died :)

8. about 2 months ago on Frazz

   November 2, All Souls Day in the Catholic calendar, has a multitude of requiem masses. (They were also used for funerals, of course.)

9. about 2 months ago on Frazz

   On The Annoying Music Show, Shatner was featured more than once.

10. about 2 months ago on Frazz

    Easter Parade: “Oh, I could write a sonnet / About your Easter bonnet / And the girl I’m taking to the Easter Parade.”