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1. about 1 hour ago on Gil Thorp

   Like Jane Austen I’m into naturalistic dialog.

2. about 2 hours ago on Heart of the City

   It was always blanched and buttered with a little salt and pepper growing up. Now they have hybrids so sweet I just eat it blanched.

3. about 2 hours ago on Baldo

   Cruz could ask if Rayna and Gracie want him to hold their place in line… They don’t.

4. about 2 hours ago on Ink Pen

   Fortunately one of CV lesser known powers is the inability to feel embarrassed.

5. about 2 hours ago on Luann

   Enjoy the moment.

6. about 2 hours ago on Gil Thorp

   Would a real side-line conversation be that wordy? “Pass to Banner? Really” (The coach knows Banner’s nickname.) “Pass to Butter-fingers?” (The coach knows that’s what they call Paul Banner.) Of course the point of the dialog is to inform the readers – not the fictional characters in the comic strip. But it could be done in a slightly more naturalistic fashion.

7. about 2 hours ago on Dick Tracy

   International terrorist on US soil should bring in the FBI. Murder may or may not be related to suspected terrorist activities, but FBI will be interested.

   Sorry Tracy, you might be using your ESP again – but you’re still wrong.

   Tracy appears to say that if the murder is domestic the FBI has no interest. WRONG And you wonder what makes Tracy think the murder is domestic? Apparently the fact Totten has assigned a low priority to fixing a clock that would bring in no profit…

   Wait, is Tracy exhibiting ESP or dementia?

8. about 2 hours ago on Tarzan

   “I’ve got a suggestion, old chap,” murmured Tarzan, “strip off your clothes and don a leopard skin loin cloth. I rather think you look the part of a wild man rather better than I.”

9. about 2 hours ago on La Cucaracha

   Nor will raising high tariffs on all imports. One economist suggested high tariffs would cost the average American family an addition $4,000 a year.

   But so much contradictory nonsense flew from the idiot source it is hard to know what, if any, of his lies were going to be introduced as policy.

10. about 2 hours ago on Phoebe and Her Unicorn

    “Fair” is a loaded term. Fair weather means good weather, and it pretty much always means better than average… Which some people interpret as terrible.