Recent Comments

1. over 2 years ago on Ginger Meggs

   But if you tell an Aussie that, they all say the same thing—“Yeah, but you have BEARS!”

2. almost 4 years ago on Non Sequitur

   I grew up in suburban Milwaukee mid-20th century and I REALLY get this. Everyone bowled. One of my classmates’ families owned an alley. We even watched “Bowling with the Champs” on TV. My brother keeps my Dad’s old bowling ball as a sentimental souvenir. The joke is good…if you’re from that very limited time and place.

3. over 4 years ago on Frazz

   I get tired of “I hate math” jokes and statements. Kids hear them from too young an age and it feeds prejudices against math. No one in cartoons ever says “I hate reading class”; we know that would be a bad example, so why are we doing that to math?

4. almost 9 years ago on Arlo and Janis

   If I remember correctly from my days in North Carolina, the hat is a TOE-boggan, whereas when I grew up in Wisconsin the sled was a toe-BOG-gan. I’ve also lived in Minnesota, Michigan, Iowa, Colorado, Illinois, Florida, and Australia, and hey, you just learn the local lingo and go with the flow. And did our Wisconsin friends know Australia also has bubblers?!!

5. about 9 years ago on Agnes

   I hate anti-math “jokes” coming out of girls’ mouths. So old. So wrong.

6. over 9 years ago on Luann

   Ayers Rock (Uluru) is nowhere near the Australian Alps. There’s a Wikipedia article on the Australian Alps—they actually ski down there, but my back yard in Colorado is higher.

7. over 9 years ago on Luann

   I arrived in Sydney the day after the 2008 election and our cabbie asked whether we’d flown through Hawaii—“that’s where your new president was born.” Obvious comments to be made here, right?! And I think it’s Panadol, not Padadol. The PM is Tony Abbott, who wears budgie smugglers ( that piece of slang ought to amuse everyone). And yes, I’m American.

8. almost 10 years ago on [Deleted]

   It’s in a closet at my parents’ in Florida, so no picture. It’s gold with white lettering—even our school colors were kind of washed-out and lame.

9. almost 10 years ago on Gil Thorp

   If only the Popes had won, I could have started a bidding war with all of you for my old Pius XI sweatshirt (yes, I have one). Here’s hoping the Lady Popes show up in basketball season somehow, some year.

10. almost 10 years ago on [Deleted]

    Agree, could be random…I can imagine surfing school names and choking with laughter on seeing the Popes, “gotta use that…” Wonder whether the Lady Popes will ever surface?!