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1. about 1 month ago on Arlo and Janis

   I am scheduled to have a knee replacement Friday, and the hospital I will be going to is ultra-picky about avoiding infections. Anyone visiting a patient has to wash their hands first, and I am required to use Hibiclens during several showers before I go in. So predictably, this hospital (New England Baptist) has an extremely low infection rate. My surgeon does about 600 of these a year.

2. about 2 months ago on Chuckle Bros

   It can’t be a dinosaur egg. Dinosaur eggs have to be at least 65 million years ago, because that is when the asteroid or something hit the killed all the dinosaurs.

3. about 2 months ago on Lio

   It’s close enough for cartoons. Nobody looks at cartoons to study animal anatomy. Nobody complains that sometimes cartoons show dogs walking on their back feet and talking to each other.Even paleontolgists are amused by the Gary Larson “thagomizer” cartoon, even though it shows hominids living at the same time as dinosaurs. They started using the term in scientific papers.

4. 6 months ago on Pearls Before Swine

   You can’t pronounce it like the Russians do. The pronunciation of the name in Cyrillic letters is “Moskva”.

5. 6 months ago on Dilbert Classics

   Multics is the father of Unix.

6. 6 months ago on Pearls Before Swine

   There used to be a small lunch place near Harvard Square that sold something they called the “Blasphemy”: a kosher hot dog, topped with bacon and cheese.

7. 7 months ago on Wizard of Id Classics

   I guess I’m a dense American. What is the deal with Germany, April 20, and 1889?

8. 7 months ago on Eek!

   You know what happens when you don’t pay your exorcist bill? You get repossessed.

9. 7 months ago on Nest Heads

   I once lived in an apartment building with no apartment #13. I lived in #12A.

10. 8 months ago on Speed Bump

    I saw this joke on an old episode of the Gong Show, it was done by the Unknown Comic; his jokes were so bad he kept his head covered by a paper bag.