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1. 5 days ago on Wizard of Id Classics

   The king hired a barbarian. Conan never met a wizard he could not whip.

2. 18 days ago on B.C.

   My childood in the 50’s was much the same. But there is one big difference between now and them. In those days I would have to go a pretty long way to be out of sight or earshot of someone who knew who I was and where I belonged. These days we don’t even know our neighbors’ names. I blame it all on air-conditioning.

3. 18 days ago on B.C.

   I’d be careful about spreading that story around. These days if a 65yo man spends the day “playing nurse” with a bunch of pre-teen school girls they throw him UNDER the jail.

4. 20 days ago on Free Range

   Why? No one knows for sure if homo-sapiens was even around one million years ago but they definitely were nine thousand years ago. The earliest known remains are only three hundred thousand years old so a scene like this would be far more likely in 7000 BC than 1,000,000 BC.Were you just trying to rattle some cages and start an argument?

5. 24 days ago on Wizard of Id

   " I said that 92 Fahrenheit was 33 Celsius, In a way that was intended to be humorous." Actually that is not what you said. What you said was ambiguous and did not reference any specific benchmark, nation or temperature scale and could have referred either of the temperatures mentioned in the post to which you were responding. My interpretation was reasonable under the circumstances. I was not in the least offended and assumed that you meant your comment to be humorous. Check your own assumptions before ascribing them to others or accusing someone else of “going off half cocked”.

6. 25 days ago on Wizard of Id

   Just for the record, and because so many of you engaged is righteous argument here don’t seem to know it, water does not boil at 33 degrees Celsius. It boils at 33 Newton. The Newton scale was devised by Isaac Newton in 1701 and is no longer in use anywhere. I guess that means that, according to Mediatech, there are no civilized nations in the world today. I think you have all been had.

7. 26 days ago on Calvin and Hobbes

   I never saw the point in forcing a kid to “clean your plate”. That was the rule when I was growing up but it only caused resentment (I genuinely hate pickled beets). As an adult my rule was “This is what’s for supper. Eat it or don’t.” I never saw a kid harmed by missing the occasional meal.

   As to leaving the table early, why not? You would not require an adult to sit and watch you eat nor, I am guessing, would you object if the kid wanted to go do their homework or practice the piano. If you really want to get the kid to sit and talk then make the conversation about something they find interesting. You might even consider occasionally leaving the dishes for later and watching the TV with them. You could both learn something.

8. 26 days ago on Back to B.C.

   I have never understood this argument. Creationism and evolution are not mutually exclusive. Neither requires the other to be nonexistent. Evolution guided by a Creator is perfectly consistent with both.

9. 29 days ago on Peanuts Begins

   For the most part DDT was put away over fifty years ago. But even the WHO recognizes that, in some countries, its benefits today still outweigh its risks in controlling malaria.

10. about 1 month ago on Wizard of Id Classics

    Heinlein was often irreverent but I cannot recall him ever being sexist and I have read all his novels. His female characters were strong, intelligent and capable women. There isn’t a damsel in distress among them.