
… if the place is about to shut down anyway, giving up half of one’s (soon-to-be-nonexistent) salary in return for a stake in the business isn’t such a bad deal, is it? Basically a zero downside here.

… if the place is about to shut down anyway, giving up half of one’s (soon-to-be-nonexistent) salary in return for a stake in the business isn’t such a bad deal, is it? Basically a zero downside here.

Isn’t this kind of an odd choice of songs to sing to a teenager who does stereotypically stay up late?
By the way, from “Singing in the Rain”:
For the record, I take issue with saying “We’ve worked the whole night through” at 1:30am. Six thirty, with the sun coming up, is working the whole night through. One thirty is just staying up a bit late.

…but is this actually “sarcasm”?


He probably wonders why he finds his bike tires slashed so often.

… GoComics doesn’t pay anybody to look over old comics scheduled for rerunning to see whether they belong in 2019 newspapers (or even on the GoComics website). At least once a year, there’s a Mutt and Jeff that make us say “Oh, hell no…”
I’m not advocating censorship, or in any way making the old strips cease to exist. Put them in collections. Have a Mutt and Jeff archive site. But some strips really don’t belong in the general daily feed.
(And this is far from the most cringeworthy example)

Maybe it’s just me… but these celebrations of lying just rub me the wrong way: we didn’t lie to our kids.

Is this a regionalism, or did Jimmy intend to write “between” and somehow it came out “in”?

