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1. about 9 hours ago on Sherman's Lagoon

   The real fightin’ words question isn’t, “Who’s gonna win this election?” It’s, “Who really won that election?”

2. about 10 hours ago on Herman

   And the old ones don’t have signal. Analog broadcasting stopped on June 12, 2009. These folks have been trying to adjust that set for almost 15 years.

3. about 10 hours ago on Non Sequitur

   The distance from the pitcher’s mound to home plate is 60.5. The diagonal of a square 90 on a side is 127.279. So the distance from the pitcher’s mound to second base is 66.779 (127.279-60.5). The line from the pitcher’s mound to either third base or first base is the third side of a triangle that is 60.5 on side side, 90 on the second side, and 45 degrees between the first and second side. That distance is 63.717. That’s a difference of only about 4%. (I used a triangle calculator found at calculator dot net to do the trigonometry on this.) So if you’re stealing while the ball is in the pitcher’s hand, there really isn’t a heck of a lot of difference between stealing second and stealing third. If you’re stealing while the ball is in the catcher’s hand, or on its way there, then obviously it’s easier to steal second. Of course, the distances aren’t the only factor; they really aren’t even the most important factor. If you’ve got a very speedy fellow on second with third open, and you’ve got a battery highly focused elsewhere, you just might get away with it.

4. 1 day ago on Non Sequitur

   Congratulations! You also got your Elizabethan right.

5. 1 day ago on Non Sequitur

   Congratulations! You also got your Elizabethan right.

6. 1 day ago on Non Sequitur

   Congratulations! You got your Elizabethan right.

7. 1 day ago on Non Sequitur

   You’ve inadvertently written a statement in the third person, as in, “He remembereth how many outs there are”, rather than a command, as in, “Thou shalt remember how many outs there are.”

8. 1 day ago on Non Sequitur

   Thou should’st scratch… “scratcheth” is third person.

9. 1 day ago on Non Sequitur

   What’s wrong with getting yourself 90 feet closer to home any way you can?

10. 1 day ago on That is Priceless

    Yes, four, but only two are nude.