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The Brooklyn Accent Premium

Born two years after Charlie Brown's debut; mainframe geek for three decades for a great metropolitan bank, now mostly retired but doing a few gigs as a spelling and grammar geek. I've identified with Charlie Brown as a kid, Mike Doonesbury in college, Dilbert at work, and Opus in my free time.

Recent Comments

  1. about 9 hours ago on Frazz

    That should always be put off until Tuesday.

  2. about 18 hours ago on Pearls Before Swine

    The title never appears in the lyric. I thought the title was “And we will all go down together” for the longest time. [But “The Longest Time” was a different Billy Joel song.]

  3. about 18 hours ago on Non Sequitur

    The late Buddy Hackett said his mother’s cooking gave him a warm glow. Later in life, he found out it was called heartburn.

  4. about 18 hours ago on Frazz

    Never put off until tomorrow what can be put off until the day after tomorrow.

  5. about 18 hours ago on Off the Mark

    Offer to fix it, but don’t start until they agree.

    “Don’t fix it!” is one of my lady’s go-to phrases.

  6. about 18 hours ago on Super-Fun-Pak Comix

    In a patriarchal society, it’s considered normal for a wife to be controlled by her husband, so no one needs a word for it.

  7. about 18 hours ago on Kliban

    ’Tis the gift to be toasted, when the toaster is free.

  8. about 18 hours ago on Loose Parts

    How much syrup will that tree produce in the spring?

  9. about 18 hours ago on 1 and Done

    That’s the religion that teaches that when you die, your soul flies up to the roof and gets stuck there.

  10. about 19 hours ago on Day by Dave

    The parents’ lament when I was a kid was “I only hope you grow up to have kids who treat you the way you treat me!”