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1. 1 day ago on Dick Tracy

   They are both Boy Scouts ;)

2. 1 day ago on FoxTrot Classics

   That would be a LOT of extra innings one player normally plays in rotation, so a limited number of at bats per inning under reasonable conditions.

3. 8 days ago on B.C.

   Bantams lay small eggs. New layer’s eggs are smaller than the same hen in a year or so. So they are labeled peewee or small to begin with. But no self-respecting Leghorn or Rhode Island Red would even dream of small eggs!

   [RBION said a Leghorn egg back in 1956 was 454 grams – that’s 16 oz aka one pound!!! But certainly not normal. In the US & Canada, Jumbo eggs are at least 70 grams (2.5 oz)]

4. 8 days ago on B.C.

   Yep – swallowed whole, and now one is hatching!

5. 8 days ago on Peanuts

   Yes: for some of us, IPA has been the International Phonetic Alphabet for so many years that it would be hard to come up with another possibility.

6. 10 days ago on Andy Capp

   So what did they eat in England, Ireland, Scotland, before potatoes arrived? Sir Raleigh introduced them to Ireland in 1585, but it was awhile before they became common. And then 250 years later the potato blight killed them off. Yet people today think bubble & squeak (or further north, rumbledethumps) are ancient foods.

   I wonder what they had before they added the potatoes?

   And in the US, corned beef hash is commonly available in cans, but my mom also included diced cabbage – maybe from some recipe from her mom’s mom’s … mom.

7. 13 days ago on Luann

   That last sentence was so sad – I remember when it was McDonalds (is that why you haven’t been there in so long?) or Hardee’s, or …

   So you won’t go to a resaurant because of politics, even though the workers there work there because they need to pay the bills, and have to find somewhere close enough to home so as to be able to walk, or to get a ride from another family member/friend who has to go further – etc.

   How many of them work there because of the former owners politics or religion? No, they work there to survive.

8. 17 days ago on Dick Tracy

   Walker Tompkins also lived in Santa Barbara, CA, and set his ham radio stories there, but called it Santa Bonita, CA. McDonald & Grafton could’ve used that name, I would guess.

9. 17 days ago on Wizard of Id

   Looks like he needs a bath, so sure, let him stay outside.

10. 17 days ago on FoxTrot Classics

    Dihydrogen sulfate. Just add water (VERY gently) and you have sulfuric acid. Normally, the S04 makes it sulfate; SO3 would be sulfite; S – as in H2S – would make it sulfide. Technically H2SO4 is what I first called it, and H2SO4 . xH2O would be sulfuric acid. But if you ask a hundred chemists to write the formula for sulfuric acid, probably 95-100 will write H2SO4, even when we know the technical difference.

    In the same way, the only time I will call H2O dihydrogen monoxide, or Sodium bicarbonate (NaHCO3) sodium hydrogen carbonate is in a joke, or in a classroom while teaching a beginning chemistry class, maybe once or twice a day for two or three days.