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1. about 8 hours ago on Tank McNamara

   I first read your comment as saying “a good pinching hitter”, and it made me think about what that might be.

2. about 8 hours ago on Doonesbury

   Hey, Dad is smiling in the last panel!

3. about 8 hours ago on Working Daze

   True, so that could be the case here. I always thought that was wrong. I remember that Bobby Kennedy’s oldest son (not the nutcase [RFK Jr.] who is trying to run for President) was Joseph P. Kennedy III, after the grandfather and Kennedy family patriarch Joseph P. Kennedy, and the oldest Kennedy son Joseph P. Kennedy Jr. (the one who was killed in WWII and JFK’s and RFK’s oldest brother – and was therefore the uncle of JPK III). So there is a prominent example of this.

4. 1 day ago on Working Daze

   Being Cornamm W. Blunk VIII (the 8th) means that there were 7 (or VII) Cornamm W. Blunks before him! They could go back to before 1800!

5. 1 day ago on Stone Soup

   Well, at least he is (presumably) being honest and not leading her on.

6. 1 day ago on Stone Soup

   My wife got kicked out of a Chinese restaurant with a bunch of friends (this was in the 1970’s) because she was playing with the duck feet (walking across the table, high kicks etc.). Of course this was after a few drinks, celebrating her divorce from her first husband.

7. 1 day ago on B.C.

   My mother would have been glad to see that the beetle, being an insect, is shown with 6 legs. One of her pet peeves was drawings of spiders having 6 legs when they actually have 8!

8. 1 day ago on Arlo and Janis

   We bought a house for $87,000 in 1984 and went with an Adjustable Rate Mortgage, starting at about 11% with a maximum increase or decrease or 5%. I felt like we were getting a great deal, since interest rates were much higher a short time before. The family we bought from had a 2nd mortgage on the house at something like 20% and were very anxious to sell! I could have gotten a fixed mortgage at 13% but decided to take a chance with the adjustable, which worked out well. The payments actually went down quite a bit over the years and my ex (I let her keep the house when we split) ended up paying it off early. My parents bought their house (where I grew up) in 1948 at 2%!

9. 1 day ago on Back to B.C.

   Part of the theme for the end credits went “It’s about time, to say goodbye, to all our prehistoric gals and guys”. For some reason I thought for a long time that it was “It’s about time, for us to go, see you next week, in a brand new show”. Maybe that perception was influenced by the famous “Same Bat-time, same Bat-channel”.

10. 2 days ago on Back to B.C.

    I remember that the daughter’s name was Mlor! Unfortunately the father in the cave family was played by Joe E. Ross (ooh – ooh!). Probably one of the worst TV shows ever, right up there with “My Mother the Car”, “The Pruitts of Southampton”, and “Camp Runamuck”.