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1. about 7 hours ago on Calvin and Hobbes

   there are probably encyclopedias worth of reference material about graffiti and its cultural significance, even in Calvin’s time. Some of the greatest artists ever did graffiti. Of course a list of dirty words and slogans is likely something you can find in a book too, but I doubt a public library would bother with it.

2. about 7 hours ago on FoxTrot Classics

   when cable goes out it doesn’t leave static, it leaves a blank screen, antenna TV leaves static when it goes out

3. 6 days ago on Calvin and Hobbes

   I’ve been watching a lot of slice of life high school anime, so there is one thing I want to know about tests in Japan. Is a passing grade really 50 over there? When I was in high school you needed to get at least 65 to pass

4. 7 days ago on JumpStart

   bring this up with your mom who must have spent a solid decade of her best years pregnant, she’ll smack you right upside the head

5. 7 days ago on FoxTrot Classics

   There was a Dilbert that turned this around, it was a comic about young Dilbert arguing with his mom about skateboarding, when she came up with the cliff argument he responded “well first I would ask everyone I could who had done it before, find out the technique, and if 100% of the people who jumped off cliffs before reported an enjoyable experience I’d conclude it was safe and yes, give it a shot myself.” Ask a hypothetically absurd question, get a hypothetically absurd answer mom.

6. 9 days ago on Garfield

   a zoned out cat leaping into the stratosphere when the other pet interacts with him is one of the most accurate cat like things I’ve seen Garfield do

7. 10 days ago on Monty

   My guess is that EB’s systems are linked with the time machine, so he’s left aware of changes to the timeline that a human observer wouldn’t perceive

8. 12 days ago on Calvin and Hobbes

   Africa is the continent our species evolved on, where our distant ancestors lived was a warm, semi-arid region with a lot of grass. It is the conditions there that caused us to lose most of our body hair through evolutionary adaptation, and when they left the continent and spread around other places in the world where it was colder, wetter, more forested, etc, they invented clothes rather than wait to re-evolve fur.

   Well that doesn’t quite answer your question does it? They left Africa because it was, do I wanna say easy? Necessary? A combination of the two? I think a prolonged drought in northern Africa drove a large population of homosapiens out to find greener pastures, also lower sea levels would have made it much easier to simply walk from the continent through the middle east into Asia and Europe, where they either pushed out or interbred with other hominids that had left Africa before (there were 2 times our hominid ancestors left Africa, we’re directly descended from the second group.) So I’m guessing if the climate in Africa remained hospitable our species might have stayed there, perhaps instead of one species living everywhere on the planet there would be different human species on the continents (sort of like a Tolkien-esque world with elves and dwarves and hobbits and stuff)

9. 13 days ago on Calvin and Hobbes

   we’re the only species who live outside the natural climate we evolved in, without the protection of clothes a typical human will begin shivering once the temperature drops below 70. Perhaps if we never left northern Africa we wouldn’t have bothered inventing them.

10. 14 days ago on Rose is Rose

    my dog did that when I was eating chicken selects