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1. almost 8 years ago on Pearls Before Swine

   Did you hear about Stephan’s home remodeling project? He’s putting in a recreation room with a pool table, full wet-bar, and a Wurlitzer juke box. But he couldn’t decide on what kind of seats he wanted for the bar, so he called up a bunch of bar and restaurant supply companies, and asked them to send him bar stool samples.I’m sorry, really, really sorry for that, but I just couldn’t resist ;)

2. almost 8 years ago on Pearls Before Swine

   Don’t you start! Pastis’s puns are all the horror I can take as it is!

3. almost 8 years ago on Pearls Before Swine

   Doing email and Text messaging on cell phones is the worst offender when it comes to accidentally sending something to the wrong recipient. Sometimes, while scrolling down a Contacts list, the phone will think I actually selected someone, when I was only swiping the screen to scroll it. My phone doesn’t show any kind of list of Recipient names or ask for a confirmation, so unless I am being extremely careful, it is too easy on my phone to send a message to someone who you are not intending to include.

4. almost 8 years ago on Pearls Before Swine

   I didn’t know that Larry The Dumb Croc had any more to his character than cluelessness in general and an abiding desire to lower the world’s population of “Zeebas”

5. almost 8 years ago on Pearls Before Swine

   Arlo Guthrie! Been a loooong time since I first heard that song. BTW, there’s a new requirement for Passport photos that just started Nov. 1 2016: you can’t be wearing eyeglasses.

6. almost 8 years ago on Pearls Before Swine

   It’s not just sports that’s ridiculously expensive. Want to see a concert? You will probably be able to buy every CD the artist ever released for less than what one ticket to the concert cost. There are exceptions, of course. Back in 2011, I saw a double show, Chicago and The Doobie Brothers, at Concord Pavillion, for only $20 for seats in the bleachers. If you bring binoculars, you’ll be able to see the musicians as good as the people in the front row, and the sound system is good anywhere, even up in the lawn area above the rearmost bleachers. That concert was worth every penny of the $20.

7. almost 8 years ago on Pearls Before Swine

   If Google Earth imagery gets any better, pretty soon, we will all be able to laugh at every poor old bald guy with a wispy comb-over or a cheap “rug”, and see everyone scratching their armpits and picking their noses.

8. about 8 years ago on Pearls Before Swine

   How can Pastis – or his publishers – sleep at night after this? I guess it’s my own fault: by the second panel, I felt that sensation of dread, the weakness in my knees, the heart palpitations, the bristling of the hairs on the back of my neck, the sudden gush of bile into my throat, that are unmistakable signals of a Pearls Pun Strip building to it’s hideous climax, yet I continued reading. Like a deer staring into the headlights of an onrushing tractor-trailer rig, or a moth being drawn to it’s doom in a bonfire, I couldn’t look away!

9. about 8 years ago on Non Sequitur

   This is my favorite Non Sequitur of all time. When I spotted it in the Sunday funnies the day it was originally published, in ‘06, I clipped it and still have it in an envelope somewhere. It’s all faded and yellowed now, so it’s wonderful to be able to see it here again, restored to it’s original colors.