Recent Comments

1. about 2 months ago on Pearls Before Swine

   Why does the USA only have two candidates? Is it not possible to have more? In the UK, it’s rare for any election to have less than 4 different candidates/parties to choose from.

2. 3 months ago on FoxTrot Classics

   Not at all. It’s ensuring you don’t endanger other road users by driving badly – the next step along the road from speed and red-light cameras.

3. over 4 years ago on Wizard of Id

   Since when did Id become independent, and from whom?

4. over 4 years ago on Get Fuzzy

   Grafting means working hard.Pants is modern (London? My early-twenties kids would use it) slang for not-good, bad.

5. almost 5 years ago on B.C.

   The only film I’ve seen which showed a Nazi execution using the guillotine was one where some young German people were trying to oppose the rise of Hitler politically. They were captured, tried and then taken and executed immediately, face down. Sorry, can’t remember the name, but it was supposed to be based on real events.

6. almost 5 years ago on For Better or For Worse

   …and it means she can just carry on reading the article that absorbed her so much she didn’t see Farley lying there.

7. almost 5 years ago on Get Fuzzy

   Our local IKEA now has maps all over the place showing where you are and all the short-cuts to get between departments. A massive, massive, improvement – I can get in, find what I need and get out again in less than 30 minutes.

8. about 5 years ago on Dilbert Classics

   Depends on the context and use, I suppose. I was working in the software and IT services industry and we only labelled assets that had to be controlled because they were integral to the product or service we were delivering. Bottles of water weren’t.

9. about 5 years ago on Dilbert Classics

   That sounds like one of the many anti-EU lies being told in the UK for the last four years. As a retired ISO9001 auditor, I know both stories are complete nonsense.

10. almost 6 years ago on Dilbert Classics

    No. He’ll fly in Air Force 1, but close all the blinds on the emu principle that if he can’t see out, nobody can see him. He did this on his “secret” trip to Iraq and the plane was spotted over eastern England, enabling the plane to be tracked to where it was going and the world to know where was before him!