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1. over 1 year ago on Tom the Dancing Bug

   “I thought the US system was supposed to be managed capitalism, at least since FDR. "

   As Homer Simpson said to Marge when she informed him, “Earl Warren was never a stripper!”, “Now who’s being naive?”

2. over 1 year ago on Doonesbury

   Jimmy Thudpucker… now there’s a name I’ve not heard in a long time.

3. about 2 years ago on Thatababy

   I had no idea Thatababy was based on Stephan Pastis’ childhood.

4. about 2 years ago on Prickly City

   “How obviously and unashamedly evil do they have to be before people stop voting for them?”

   Trump could grow a mustache and twirl it whilst tying sweet Polly Pureheart to the railroad tracks to force her to turn over the deed to her family’s farm so he could build Mar-a-lago West, and he’d only lose about half a percentage point overall.

   It might actually gain him some support in some quarters once it’s revealed that Polly’s great grandfather voted for FDR in 1944, not long before losing a leg during the Battle of the Bulge, thus qualifying Snidely Trumplash’s scheme as “owning the libs”.

5. about 2 years ago on Nancy Classics

   And Leslie Odom, Jr, who played Burr in Hamilton, remade the commercial.

   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z-KoAi3Nl9Q

6. about 2 years ago on Tom the Dancing Bug

   I can’t say I’d be perfectly happy if Ruben Bolling made Tom the Dancing Bug “All Lucky Ducky All The Time”, but I also can’t say I’d mind terribly.

7. about 2 years ago on Rabbits Against Magic

   I miss being an FAQ on rec.arts.comics. :)

   You see, my real name is the same as a notable comics artist. As an active commenter on comics, I’d often get asked if I was him. (I like to say if I had a dollar for every time I’ve been asked I am him, I could afford to commission a nice drawing from him.) Since this was well before the days of universal internet access, the rule of thumb was that if someone had the same name as a comics writer, it was the writer. But if someone had the same name as a comics artist, it was not the artist. My name was one of the examples given.

8. about 2 years ago on Super-Fun-Pak Comix

   All of the above.

9. about 2 years ago on Rabbits Against Magic

   I can’t decide what the “all downhill from there” point for UseNet was — either the “Green Card Lawyers” or the “perpetual September” when AoL users got access.

10. about 3 years ago on Peanuts

    Willy, perhaps.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iQiDCm3HVyg