Category / Bill Bickel
Christmas Card I Understand But Don’t Understand
So… apparently now they’re making Christmas cards intended to be sent too early…
Q: Do the syndicates have somebody who checks over classic strips to make sure they’re not somehow inappropriate before they’re republished?
A: Probably not.
Doesn’t this suggest the same kids have been in her second (?) grade class year after year?
Of course in our reality they all have been repeating the same grade since 2001 — but they’re not supposed to realize that.
Um… Arlo got away with one here
Janis asked about a hypothetical future in which she’s old and fat. “You’re as sexy as ever,” in the present tense, suggests she’s already there.
School Book Fairs: totally OT other than the fact that we were discussing them earlier this month so maybe somebody will be interested
B.A.: The 11/11 11 question
“Since this was addressed in a comic, I feel justified asking a question that’s always bothered me: was there a practical reason the war ended on 11/11 at precisely 11, or were the diplomats just being cute? And if it was the latter, did they really not understand it could end badly?”
Chadwatch 2018???
Now that Florida’s beginning a recount of Tuesday’s Senator vote, how long until some cartoonist makes a chad reference?
Didn’t we go here last month?
Lettuce revisit the topic of BLTs [semi-OT]
Okay, so apparently in the 1950s, a BLT was called a Bacon and Tomato Sandwich — although the lettuce is doing a pretty lousy job of hiding.
I wonder why it subsequently changed its name. Maybe because “BLT” is just easier to say?
Maybe it was a meat-and-potatoes decade and “lettuce” carried a stigma?
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