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1. about 2 months ago on Ordinary Bill

   Loses his left sandal when he goes flying, right sandal is missing when he lands under the tree.

2. 2 months ago on Rudy Park

   It varies. Frank Lloyd Wright did many of his own calculations; Louis Kahn worked a lot with August Komendant. (The latter’s autobiography has a lot of “and then my brilliant solution saved Louie’s design.”)

3. 3 months ago on Bloom County

   The “grand unification” still being sought is between quantum mechanics and gravitation. Relativistic quantum mechanics goes back to Dirac in 1928.

4. 4 months ago on The City

   As a gun owner he gets a pass.

5. 4 months ago on Edge City

   I made a custom ringtone for my cell phone – the opening bars of Crossroads, from Cream’s Wheels of Fire album.

   And our mp3-capable door chime plays the opening bars of Blue Condition from Disraeli Gears.

6. 4 months ago on Scary Gary

   Spectral And Depressed

7. 5 months ago on Prickly City

   Marines, not army. Is it out of bounds to point out that he deployed as a PR flack?

8. 5 months ago on The Norm Classics

   My favorite user manual sentence: “Consistently separating words by spaces became a general custom about the tenth century A.D., and lasted until about 1957, when FORTRAN abandoned the practice.” – Sun FORTRAN Reference Manual, ca. 1990

9. 5 months ago on Super-Fun-Pak Comix

   Pretty accurate depiction of a major aspect of the Eurozone financial crisis, actually.

10. 5 months ago on The Elderberries

    Odd simile, since after “the bloodiest and fiercest battle of the entirety of World War II—and arguably in all of human history” (Wikipedia), Stalingrad did not fall.