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1. over 4 years ago on Peanuts

   Presumably Snoopy is yelling “Aaugh” in the second panel, but then in the third panel, although his snout is still open, that is just his thoughts we can read in his thought bubble?

2. over 7 years ago on Peanuts

   Makes me think of Dio-era Black Sabbath.

3. over 7 years ago on Peanuts

   I’ve never found the stars to be all that interesting, but I was able to see some tandem passes of the International Space Station and a space shuttle on nights a few hours after they had undocked and separated. I wonder how Lucy would have explained that.

4. over 7 years ago on Calvin and Hobbes

   Was your father’s name Curly, Larry, or Shemp?

5. over 7 years ago on Calvin and Hobbes

   — who adapted it from Memphis Minnie. At least they gave her a credit, unlike in some other instances (Do a search for the headline “Led Zeppelin’s 10 Boldest Rip-Offs” for a list of them).

6. over 7 years ago on Calvin and Hobbes

   When you’re a kid, you have to wear the clothes your mom buys for you, and you have little or no say. When I was about 8 or 9, my mom had bought me some new pairs of cheap underpants that, when I wore them, had some stitching (i think nylon or maybe acrylic?) that was very irritating in the worst possible place. When I told her, her response was “Too bad, but I just bought those, and I can’t return them and I’m not going to buy others so soon. Just try wearing them backwards.” I was in a class where half the kids were a grade higher and a year older, and of course as soon as I bent over to pick up something, one of the older kids laughed and said “Look at that stupid kid. He’s got his underwear on backwards”.

7. over 7 years ago on Calvin and Hobbes

   About 15 or 20 years ago, comedian Jim Florentine had a whole series of I think 5 or 6 CDs — “Terrorizing Telemarketers” — of him pranking telemarketers he got to call him. He would later use some of the same characters, certainly “Special Ed” (who liked to yell “Yay!” a lot), when he was part of the the Crank Yankers TV show that actually placed prank calls, I think from Nevada where there weren’t specific laws against it like in most other states. (That’s why his own CDs involved only him receiving calls instead of making the calls himself.) Sometimes the telemarketers would unintentionally add to the humor with their revolting behavior, like asking Special Ed to go find his mommy’s purse with all her credit cards!

8. about 8 years ago on Calvin and Hobbes

   Maybe a few years later Hobbes would have said they were ‘ironic’?

9. over 8 years ago on [Deleted]

   “Little-seen”? I think almost everyone over 40 who grew up in North America saw it countless times, and knows what I’m referring to when I say “That was a dirrrty bit o’ cheatin’”. I’ve heard guys on sports radio mention “the New Hebrides Open”.

10. over 8 years ago on Calvin and Hobbes

    Assuming you are a real person — you can easily go through the original run of C&H strips from the first

    www.gocomics.com/calvinandhobbes/1985/11/18

    to the last

    www.gocomics.com/calvinandhobbes/1995/12/31

    if you feel inclined to do so.