It’s for the same reason TV phone numbers start with 555.
That’s not an exaggeration. In 1990, a 40 MB hard drive would set you back about a thousand dollars. http://www.mkomo.com/cost-per-gigabyte
Many years earlier.
Mr Peirce is a big fan of classic old time comic strips. This vulture is right out of E. C. Segar’s Popeye comic strip.
They live in Maine. That’s about a 3 or 4 day drive each way.
That is Offissa Pup from the 1920s comic strip Krazy Kat on the wall.
Caesar, not ceasar.
1997 was the first year this was done in a big way. 46 cartoonists participated. There is a lot of information in Wikipedia under “Comic strip switcheroo”
Yes, but your math skills are better than Nate’s.
So, you want to read a strip where Nate is 38 years old, married to Gina and working as an assistant manager at OfficeMax?
It’s for the same reason TV phone numbers start with 555.