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1. about 4 years ago on Not Invented Here

   And the S.H.A.D.O. Interceptor from UFO, the short-lived British sci fi series, in the upper right corner. (Although I remember watching the show as a child, I did have to look it up on the interwebs.)

2. almost 5 years ago on Dog Eat Doug

   It is a myth that ducks (and other animals with eyes on the sides of their heads) have no depth perception. Such critters, including ducks, may not have binocular depth perception, but they do have monocular depth perception. They sacrifice the advantages of binocular depth perception for a far wider field of vision, allowing them to better detect threats and navigate in groups. I suspect that the occasional pratfalls of ducks alighting on land has as much to do with inexperience in landing on hard surfaces as it does their lack of stereopsis.

3. over 5 years ago on The Other End

   I prefer the one-offs. They’re a better vehicle for Neil Kohney’s quirky sense of humor. Alternating with a occasional longer story lines wouldn’t be a bad idea.

4. about 8 years ago on Frazz

   Just puting it on the test doesn’t make it relevant. I took “Restoration Era English Literature” as an undergrad, and the midterm consisted solely of questions about the material in the footnotes on the political infighting of the era.

5. about 8 years ago on Clay Bennett

   @HabaneroBuck Just using the total numbers of whites vs blacks killed by the police to dismiss the rational concerns of over disproportionate police shootings of blacks is akin to dismissing the Holocaust by stating that the Nazis killed more Soviet soldiers than Jews. The observation that there are “more officer-involved shootings with whites than blacks” misses the point. The white population is much larger than the black population in the U.S. According to statistics gathered by the Washington Post, black Americans are 2.5 times more likely to be killed by the police than white Americans as a proportion of the population. (https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-nation/wp/2016/07/11/arent-more-white-people-than-black-people-killed-by-police-yes-but-no/) According to a study by the University of Louisville and the University of South Carolina, an unarmed black American was 7 times more likely to be killed than an unarmed white American. (https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/study-finds-police-fatally-shoot-unarmed-black-men-at-disproportionate-rates/2016/04/06/e494563e-fa74-11e5-80e4-c381214de1a3_story.html)

6. about 9 years ago on Beardo

   Go to May 1st. Dan explains that his first baby is due and that he’s running strips (most of which only appeared in Sherpa) from the very start. The May 2nd strip shows Beardo’s graduation from art school.

7. over 9 years ago on Beardo

   If they had children, Uncle Sam might give them more than you paid in income tax with the earned income tax credit. However, they have also paid wage taxes and state income tax, not to mention sales tax, phone tax, and so on. Even with children and the maximum EITC, they’ll still be net tax payers. If they weren’t comic strip characters, that is.

8. over 10 years ago on Big Nate

   The functional translation of P.S. would be “afterthought”. In the pre-digital age of handwritten or mechanically typed correspondence, there was no way of adding new text to the body of a letter once you had signed it. If you had another thought to add, your only options were to start over or to add a “post script” to the the completed letter.

   In the digital age, it is largely just a stylistic choice.

9. over 12 years ago on Candorville

   cdward, what is the cite for the news report/article?

10. over 12 years ago on Cow and Boy Classics

    “Kyrie” sung by the group “Mr. Mister”. Mid-1980s. Here’s a YouTube link to their music video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XNKbHJ3PTu4&feature=list_related&playnext=1&list=AVGxdCwVVULXcp-JXzT76iQT-VwnJQJG1_