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1. about 1 hour ago on Crabgrass

   I remember that one… But I remember all the Westerns that included the cliché Martin was doing a riff on.

2. about 4 hours ago on Gil Thorp

   Oops. Sorry. I conflated the two. Probably what BH did as well.

3. about 6 hours ago on Adam@Home

   Adam was able to finish writing a book? Who knew?

4. about 6 hours ago on Heart of the City

   It may have been urban myth, but it was claimed that children’s cognitive abilities dipped slightly after watching Sponge Bob. True or not, I never let my daughters watch it, or any other show where stupidity was glorified.

5. about 6 hours ago on Crabgrass

   The classic two guys guarding the wagon train at night:

   “It’s quiet out there.”

   “Too quiet.”

6. about 6 hours ago on Doonesbury

   That’s still more useful than Zeke has ever been.

7. about 6 hours ago on Ink Pen

   In his defense, it is only May 10th. (Original strip ran June 21.)

8. about 6 hours ago on JumpStart

   I’ve experienced a couple machines that could out a drinkable cup of coffee. Had one at a university where I taught years ago… Administration took it out. Most machine ‘coffee’ is swill. But even the drinkable coffee doesn’t compare with hand pulled. Capresso, DeLonghi and other manufacturers of espresso machines will enjoy more business when vending machines take over… Unless average consumers forget what good coffee tastes like.

9. about 6 hours ago on Luann

   Well, we think wind flutes may go back 12,000 years. But the only thing they have in common with the instrument in today’s strip is the fact you blow in them. The instrument in today’s strip was invented in the 19th century.

10. about 6 hours ago on Non Sequitur

    But ‘symplocarpus foetidus’ seems to much classier than ‘skunk cabbage’.