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1. 18 days ago on Arlo and Janis

   Yep, they’re definitely in the South. He’s wearing a teeshirt and shorts, and neither one of them has a coat or boots on.

2. 22 days ago on Pearls Before Swine

   Once upon a time (~50 years ago) there was a brief fad in California with adults going house to house after putting the kids to bed. They’d hold out a glass and say, “Trick or liquor.”It didn’t catch on.

3. 25 days ago on Arlo and Janis

   There was something like two minutes left in the game. Shortly after the Heidi movie was broadcast and the football broadcast was cut off (Eastern and Central zones only, of course), the Raiders scored. No big deal, since the Jets still led by a few points. With less than a minute left to play, the Raiders kicked off with a darting squib kick. One of the Jets tried to pick it up and dropped it, only to have Preston Ridlehuber of the Raiders’ kickoff team pick it up and run it in all the way, putting Oakland in the lead. Then the clock ran out!(I don’t remember Ridlehuber ever doing anything remarkable again as a pro football player.)

4. about 1 month ago on Strange Brew

   In Seattle if it’s a clear day, they say, “The mountain is out” (meaning they can see Rainier).

5. about 1 month ago on Wizard of Id Classics

   No worries — he’s wearing armor.

6. about 2 months ago on Arlo and Janis

   The Janis Joplin version — ugh.

7. 2 months ago on Wizard of Id Classics

   Andrew Carnegie chose to fund thousands of libraries across the US and Canada. That’s some legacy.

8. 2 months ago on Pearls Before Swine

   They still do, in France.

9. 2 months ago on Pearls Before Swine

   Rat reminds me of the people who only get their news from MSNBC, PBS, NPR, and CNN, and who watch The View, and then complain about people and media with views opposed to theirs.

10. 2 months ago on Arlo and Janis

    From the last few strips, it’s looking as if Janis now doesn’t want to move at all, and Arlo is a bit intrigued by the idea of being in the sticks — a reversal of where they were a month or two ago.For retirees with a paid-off home mortgage, it’s not always that difficult to finance. If they started investing in their forties, they now have at least half a million in stocks, in spite of all the market ups and downs. (That’s assuming they were investors, not traders, and assuming they stayed away from the industries that were headed for the dumpster.) If they have a margin account, they can borrow on their stocks for a bridge loan to buy the land and build the house, probably at a much lower interest rate than a bank would charge. No need for a mortgage, and they can pay off the stock loan as soon as their old house sells.