This joke was new, once upon a time. I’m not sure how many of my readers may remember when DAT recordings were part of the public market. My dad had a DAT machine, which he used for recording and mixing[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
With me, it’s strawberries; if I eat more than a pawful at one time, I get a migraine to beat the band (said band having put the base drum into my brain). Cherries can be deceptively innocent in the same[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
This strip is the 66th one posted, yet the joke itself was the first that I’d written after the “Meet the Cast” strips. It was inspired by two things. First, in real life, I’m allergic to animal dander, which makes[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Today’s strip is dedicated to Rocket J. Squirrel and Bullwinkle Moose, whose never-ending attempt to pull a rabbit out of a top hat reflects this absolutely true incident. I am protective of my plushies, and they of me. Don’t insult[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
This is a real thing, although not many people know of it. (Maybe you didn’t want to know of it!) The film that I mention here is actually quite good and very informative. In its way, it’s even funny, as[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
This is actually a true story, although no doubt without the pun. Texas is not a state with a large Jewish population (about half a percent of the total population of the state, according to a 2015 tally in the[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Writer Peter Packer wrote (among other things) 25 of the 83 episodes of the original Lost In Space television series. One of these was the without-a-doubt worst episode of the series: “The Great Vegetable Rebellion.” Actor Jonathan Harris (“Dr, Smith”)[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
A real sixpence coin hasn’t been in circulation since 1980 (the internet tells me). An 1893 “Victoria jubilee head” is not only valuable for being over 90% silver but also for being exceedingly rare. Although there are sixpence coins (worth[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
As the season turns toward thoughts of A Christmas Carol, I thought this one appropriate. Technically, I suppose, “gruel” is both thinner than most of us would think of as our usual bowl of oatmeal, and it could be made[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Artificial-intelligence researcher Robert Wilensky (1951-2013), in a 1996 speech, said: “We’ve heard that a million monkeys at a million keyboards could produce the complete works of Shakespeare; now, thanks to the Internet, we know that is not true.” Both ideas,[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…