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1. 1 day ago on Little Dog Lost

   If you mean Steve, I’m sorry to say not really. He just updates the copyrights everyday. This one caught my eye because of the extra text.

2. 2 days ago on Skippy

   Time warp moment: This was written back in the day when folks having barrels on hand was a real thing. They were the “smile” box of the day.

   The invention of the corrugated, disposable cardboard box put most barrel-makers out of business, relegated to what we think of now, mostly serving distilleries and vineyards. (When I worked in a fancy gift shop in the 70s, we still received the nice china sets from England and Europe in straw packed barrels!)

   Barrels, and wooden crates, were the original recyclables, used at home for storage, moving, and re-shipping, lasting years depending on how they were used and stored. Those old timey children merrily chasing hoops with sticks were using the staves from old, broken down barrels.

   Of course, most folks back then weren’t buying so much stuff they were overwhelmed with Chewy boxes like we are now. The disposable box not only put a large industry out of work (so ubiquitous, “Cooper” is a common last name), but our reliance on shipping products is contributing to an increase in deforestation to keep up with demand, and overwhelming our modern intentions to recycle it. Some centers are refusing to take more cardboard, there is such a backlog, so it just gets shunted to the burner or landfilled, and more trees are cut down.

   The modern fixation with “more convenient and cheaper” usually has a hidden, much higher cost, and here is another example.

3. 3 days ago on Little Dog Lost

   Oh congratulations to your parents!! I’m assuming your amendment to the copyright date is a reference to their anniversary? That is amazing! What a wonderful achievement, and testimony to I’m sure a wonderful relationship.

4. 3 days ago on Peanuts Begins

   I don’t see why not? Notes and words are just different symbols. There is no connection between them. You may not be able to read any lyrics, but someone could certainly put an instrument, like a piano, in front of you. Point to middle C on the page, hit the corresponding key, instant connection. It’s how most people learn music. Not reading words, you may not pick up on the annotations, unless someone demonstrated those bits, but you could still read the notes.

5. 3 days ago on Peanuts Begins

   Yeah, that was the jumping off point of my post. I was just riffing back to the big discussion where some folks were debating if it was a C&H situation. Obviously The Christmas Special leaves no doubt he is really playing.

6. 4 days ago on Peanuts Begins

   Another strip for those that wondered if the piano is a Calvin and Hobbes situation, the question of whether he is really playing or is just imagining he is.

   It’s kinda interesting that pre-C&H, everyone trusted he was really playing. Post-C&H it’s become a standard question.

7. 5 days ago on Phoebe and Her Unicorn

   Nice to see you back! Hope the break was restful, or fruitful if not just a vacation.

8. 10 days ago on Phoebe and Her Unicorn

   Hmmm, we’ve been in reruns for a month now. The last new one was Sunday Nov 10 about giving happiness. I missed if Dana told us about going on vacation/hiatus? I assume it didn’t end or we’d have gone back to the beginning. Hope everything is okay.

9. 10 days ago on Cul de Sac

   Come on, that’s not going to be their intended role, and you know it. And laying around being a blanket is not exactly action-packed. And sure, snowflakes are scientific marvels, as women are, but to most people snowflakes are a general background mass, indistinguishable as individuals without a magnifying glass. Look, Miss Bliss doesn’t even give them names. That is my point. Who knows? Maybe, I was being unfair thinking it was a subconscious trope and Thompson was actually making a subtle, gentle point here for us to be discussing.

10. 10 days ago on Cul de Sac

    Yes, of course I do. But they are not being CAST as Alice and Nara, are they?