Shoe by Gary Brookins and Susie MacNelly for March 20, 2012

OIly cats?

They still made Persian cats, though.

They probably exported them whether we wanted them or not.

It’s “Oil”, Einsiein! Why does he and Ginger Meggs always enjoy doing that?!

The operative word is “WAS”.

Actually, a lot of great learning came from Persia after Europe was stuck in the Dark Ages. Algebra is one of their contributions to learning. Do not remember any others at the moment. Age, memory and all that stuff.

Well, for ancient Greece & Macedonia, it was invasion forces.

I believe Persians are actually a minority in Iran, with many other ethnic groups. It came up with “Who else would bomb Iranian nuclear scientists?”

Was indicates “THE PAST”. Persia is a given.

Another answer might be ‘nothing’. Again, the zero was a reexport from India, via al-Khwārizmī. And since ‘algorithm’ is a garbled form of ‘al-Khwārizmī’, that is a candidate as well.

I thought it was ulcers.

Good one.

Uh, when my son was in Iraq, most of the manufactured products on sale there were from Iran. Skylar is at least humorous, as opposed to most Americans being ignorant and humorless about anything “middle east” or Asian.

If not Algebra (al-jebr) , how about alcohol?(al-kuhl)

Pistachios.