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1. about 9 years ago on Pearls Before Swine

   “A pun does not commonly justify a blow in return. But if a blow were given for such cause, and death ensued, the jury would be judges both of the facts and of the pun, and might, if the latter were of an aggravated character, return a verdict of justifiable homicide.” — Oliver Wendell, Sr. Holmes (1809-94), U.S. writer, physician. The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table, ch. 1 (1858).

2. about 9 years ago on Jim Benton Cartoons

   Flavor packs are fabricated from the chemicals that make up orange essence and oil. Flavor and fragrance houses, the same ones that make high end perfumes, break down orange essence and oils into their constituent chemicals and then reassemble the individual chemicals in configurations that resemble nothing found in nature. Ethyl butyrate is one of the chemicals found in high concentrations in the flavor packs added to orange juice sold in North American markets, because flavor engineers have discovered that it imparts a fragrance that Americans like, and associate with a freshly squeezed orange.http://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/ask-an-academic-orange-juice