Recent Comments

1. 10 days ago on Over the Hedge

   I remember someone put out a parody answer to that song: a normal housewife saying “I’ve been to me, and believe me it’s no thrill.”

2. 18 days ago on Arlo and Janis

   Thank you! This is a case where explaining the joke actually made it funny.

3. about 1 month ago on Pearls Before Swine

   That sounds possible, and I speak as someone for whom cilantro ruins every dish it’s in. Licorice is one of the few things for which my wife’s tastes and mine diverge widely. She absolutely hates licorice and I love it. My two favorite Jelly Belly flavors are licorice and cinnamon, and she also loves cinnamon.

4. 3 months ago on Arlo and Janis

   He missed the boat figuratively and literally. Not only was he oblivious to her come-on but, for the geeks out there, anything that’s still the same after four billion years does, indeed, “never get old”.

5. 5 months ago on Get Fuzzy

   They made a movie out of Battleship.

6. 11 months ago on For Better or For Worse

   We named our Bichon Pooka, after the mischievous Irish spirit. The name turned out to be all too accurate. He’s now going on 15, which is 3 years beyond the average life expectancy for Bichons.

7. almost 1 year ago on Pearls Before Swine

   I remember noting at the time when teenagers were challenging each other on social media to eat Tide pods that the company’s response was to make the package harder to open for small children and old people. It did include instruction on how to open it on the package but it was still a strange response the problem.

8. over 1 year ago on Over the Hedge

   The thing is, a CD is just a physical storage medium for the music’s digital file, which can be stored anywhere, including your phone. An audiophile who wants to listen to the analog version of the music has to listen to it from either a vinyl disc or a high quality tape. Hence the declining interest in CD’s and the steady or increasing popularity of vinyl among a certain audiophile community.

9. over 1 year ago on Betty

   One professor characterized AI written papers as impressive sounding gibberish that would be convincing to someone who didn’t know the subject.

10. over 1 year ago on Arlo and Janis

    Reminds me of a line from a comic I heard many years ago: “We live in an age where people keep their $40,000 piece of precision machinery on their driveway so they can keep $400 worth of junk in their garage.”