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1. about 19 hours ago on FoxTrot Classics

   Never add water to acid, add acid to water.

2. about 19 hours ago on Ballard Street

   Looks more like she has opera glasses.

3. 2 days ago on Calvin and Hobbes

   I had that same souvenir from Dinoland! It must have been ’64, though, because I remember I was 7 when we went.

4. 3 days ago on Bloom County

   This strip is from ‘83, and the shark was jumped in ’77. I’m pretty sure the love affair was over.

5. 3 days ago on Calvin and Hobbes

   Up until the late ‘60s, Sinclair Oil gas stations had a brontosaurus on the sign. You couldn’t go 5 miles without seeing a dinosaur.

6. 3 days ago on Calvin and Hobbes

   Before Disney, there was “Gertie the Dinosaur”, 1914

   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TGXC8gXOPoU

7. 4 days ago on Cul de Sac

   So did Dante Alighieri, but his editor talked him into eliminating the 10th circle. It made for too long a read.

8. 4 days ago on Cul de Sac

   There is a perhaps apocryphal story of a banjo player who traveled to NYC and foolishly left his instrument in plain view in the back seat when he parked to get lunch. An hour later when he returned, the car’s window had been broken and the car was filled with banjos.

9. 5 days ago on Speed Bump

   Political comments in three… two… one…

10. 11 days ago on Pearls Before Swine

    In the corporate world, you must cover, but not your shoulder.