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1. 3 days ago on Brewster Rockit

   Last time she goes to that decorator….

2. 8 days ago on Dick Tracy

   Tracy said, “Probably used a silencer” (11th). Is it possible the shot was silenced by a cushion or would that need to be a closer shot? (Or is that an invention of mystery writers anyway?)

3. 12 days ago on Pickles

   Can’t you negotiate with them to empty bins delivered to the end of the road? That’s what our collectors did during five weeks of road works.

4. 14 days ago on Breaking Cat News

   That sounds like Rebanadas de Mantequilla, though it usually has just granulated sugar rather than sprinkles. I believe the bread is a sweeter variety especially baked for the purpose rather than a regular loaf as in fairy bread.

5. 24 days ago on Brewster Rockit

   I would have thought it would be really hard to disguise incompetence as an engineer – harder even than, say, a doctor or a teacher, because they are dealing with unpredictable humans.

6. 28 days ago on Pickles

   Old adage: The price of having a friend is being a friend.

7. about 1 month ago on Doonesbury

   Eye roll.

8. about 1 month ago on For Better or For Worse

   Okay: it comes from “Exchequer”, the department of Royal Revenues, so called because money counters were arranged on a cloth marked in squares like a chessboard (French eschequier, a chessboard). From there, a counter representing money was called a “cheque”.

9. about 1 month ago on Dick Tracy

   It refers to the famous clock of the original building, which has two foxes on the clock face. The clock is to be preserved in the Plaza (see October 27 strip).

10. about 1 month ago on Doonesbury

    When isn’t the End of Days coming on us?