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1. 2 days ago on Arlo and Janis

   Churchill probably never said this. Google “brians churchill prepositions” to find the results of my research.

2. 3 days ago on Arlo and Janis

   The real pain is the smoothtop glass surface of stoves like ours which require almost daily vigorous polishing to keep them shiny clean. We’ve found for burned-on stains that a paste of baking soda and water loosens them up.

3. 4 days ago on Arlo and Janis

   Note that Janis’ usual nightgown straps are missing. That tells you what they’ve been up to.

4. 4 days ago on Alley Oop

   Really stupid. Plato disdained shadow-shows, and why would he give his puppet a Latin name? “Megalos” would be better.

5. 5 days ago on Alley Oop

   OK, so they’ve read the allegory of the cave from Plato’s “Republic.”

6. 9 days ago on Alley Oop

   Plato was all about getting out of caves. He’s not going to be hanging around in an underground labyrinth.

7. 12 days ago on Arlo and Janis

   Pronounced “mwah,” like a kiss. So there’s that.

8. 14 days ago on Arlo and Janis

   To get the point of this strip, read the first part of “The Sacred Sex and Death Rites of the Ancient Mystery Groves” at ancient-origins.net.

9. 19 days ago on Betty

   But fir coats are a lot cheaper than cedar coats—not to mention the real thing: mahogany.

10. 20 days ago on Alley Oop

    Whatever the language, the word “toga” didn’t exist yet—Greeks wore a similar garb called a “himation.” Togas were Roman.