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1. 1 minute ago on Kliban's Cats

   Also eggs-iting

2. about 19 hours ago on Tom the Dancing Bug

   Has no one put up a personal windmill and/or added solar panels to generate electricity in Ecuador?

3. about 21 hours ago on Doonesbury

   they never really developed out of the tribal phase, just got better toys.

   Also true of us.

4. about 23 hours ago on Ripley's Believe It or Not

   I’ll probably live another 20 years! (I’m 72)

   We can hope so, anyway

5. about 23 hours ago on Doonesbury

   Not only by extremists. It is a standard Muslim religious assertion and is paralleled in such phrases as “you shall have no other gods before me”

6. 2 days ago on The Knight Life

   :-)

7. 2 days ago on Ripley's Believe It or Not

   eeeuUUuuu

8. 2 days ago on Kliban's Cats

   Picture yourself in a river with the cat on your head keeping dry

9. 2 days ago on Doonesbury

   You’re quicker on your mental feet than I’ve ever been on mine. Even today, in your place, I would have blurted it out.

   My brain stumbled when I first heard the term used as a racist slur – the word has never had that meaning for me and still doesn’t. It only meant ghosts and spies (we used it all the time – about ourselves!), and hearing that it could be used as a weapon was like stepping off an unexpected edge, leaving me mentally windmilling, wondering what pillock could ever have come up with THAT – the color association alone is 180° off.

10. 3 days ago on Doonesbury

    That’s the (rather racist) reference to hostile territory favored by spooks.