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1. about 11 hours ago on Shoe

   When a teacher calls a boy by his entire name, it means trouble. Mark Twain

2. 4 days ago on That is Priceless

   Gates took credit for winning at Saratoga. However, you would have a hard time getting him to take credit for the Battle of Camden.

3. 6 days ago on That is Priceless

   There’s a song about that.

4. 6 days ago on Rose is Rose

   There is a brand of seed cake laced with hot pepper to keep the squirrels from eating it. The picture on the package is a cartoon of a very distressed squirrel with smoke and fire coming out of its ears.

5. 11 days ago on Frazz

   What Archimedes discovered was the gravimetric buoyancy technique. By measuring the mass of the kings gold crown suspended in water and comparing that to the mass of a sample of pure gold equal to the dry mass of the crown suspended in water, Archimedes could determine if the crown was less dense than pure gold and hence adulterated with a lighter metal.

6. 16 days ago on Pluggers

   The drawing looks like our Plugger has their “behind the ear” hearing aid on backwards. Maybe they put the right ear hearing aid in the left ear.

7. 17 days ago on Pluggers

   Gandalf’s eyebrows reportedly extended beyond the brim of his hat. If the hair on the sides of my head gets too long, it makes weird, scratchy sounds in my hearing aids.

8. 17 days ago on Phoebe and Her Unicorn

   A comment as funny as the cartoon!

9. 17 days ago on Monty

   Ichabod Ferguson is on the right track. The spacing of the rails here is obviously less then the 4’ 8-1/2" standard. There are narrow gauge railroads with rails spaced a bit less than 2’. Attention to grade changes and curve radii tend to be rather casual on narrow gauge track-work. Check out references to Maine Two Foot railroads.

10. 19 days ago on Frazz

    The date for Easter each year also has a lunar factor in the calculations.