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1. about 22 hours ago on Bad Machinery

   If Alvar Aalto stools are so valuable, how did they wind up in a skip?

2. 2 days ago on Bad Machinery

   The “Wen-Tack Valley”! Now we have some idea of the topography in which this saga takes place, especially the construction of the marina and the vulnerability to flooding…

3. 4 days ago on Super-Fun-Pak Comix

   In light of the recent passing of Earl Holliman, today’s strip brings back fond memories of his role in Forbidden Planet. (But can the robot in today’s strip actually synthesize moonshine, as did the robot in the movie?)

4. 4 days ago on Bad Machinery

   The antiquarian’s tools in trade: a jeweler’s loupe, a chamois cloth, a magnifying glass, and a crowbar.

5. 7 days ago on Gil Thorp

   Do we know for sure that Goshen’s players aren’t of legal drinking age? The way that characters are drawn in the strip these days, they could be anywhere from 13 to 50.

6. 7 days ago on Gil Thorp

   The team will charge their drinks to Foxy’s tab. Free beer is the Goshen Booster Club’s version of NIL money.

7. 8 days ago on Crankshaft

   Mary, merry, and marry are all pronounced differently in large cities in the northeast, in San Francisco, and in the South. The three sounds have merged into one in the Midwest, in much of New England, and in the West.

8. 9 days ago on Bad Machinery

   The wide roundabouts have 4 or more lanes in each direction, and trying to make your way from the inside to the outside is not fun. It usually requires a couple of complete orbits before you can get to your exit.

9. 9 days ago on Bad Machinery

   I despised those figure-eight style back-to-back roundabouts when I lived in England in the 1980s. I can only imagine Tommy Binks’s frustration at having to navigate through an entire cluster of them, several times daily. His hatred of Wendlefield is completely understandable and justified!

10. 14 days ago on Crankshaft

    In other words, this band is to music what this strip is to humor.