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1. about 8 hours ago on Pearls Before Swine

   Beat me to it.

2. about 24 hours ago on Cul de Sac

   First amendment actually doesn’t apply in this case as Mrs. Otterloop is not a member of congress and cannot pass laws.

3. 2 days ago on Get Fuzzy

   I concur, band-aid and pencil.

4. 2 days ago on Ballard Street

   Back in ’74 there was a book by Ted Nelson (who coined the phrase “hypertext”) called “Computer Lib”. Two books really – it was a large double-sided book; you flipped it over and the other side was called “Dream Machines”. Anyway, he basically talked about state-of-the-art computing as it was 45 years ago, and made a lot of predictions on where it was going. Some were spot on, some were wildly preposterous. I still dig it out every couple of years and read through it.

5. 2 days ago on Bloom County 2019

   During the cold war the Soviets presented the American ambassador with a wall clock; it was, of course, bugged.

6. 2 days ago on Calvin and Hobbes

   This, of course, is a variant of Calvinball, played with the Duluth rules.

7. 3 days ago on Monty

   How about an 1880 Morgan dollar in good condition?

8. 3 days ago on Ballard Street

   Yep.

9. 3 days ago on Monty

   Some years ago I was paying at the supermarket checkout and accidentally dropped some change. A nickel came to rest on edge like that. I was amazed, but the checker didn’t seem to appreciate how low the probability of that happening was. She just snapped her gum with a blank look on her face.

10. 4 days ago on Pearls Before Swine

    About 900. Think Rat-thuselah.