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1. 7 days ago on Fred Basset

   My sister, brother-in-law, and I agree that my Chorkie furnephew is really a cat. He can spend all day lounging in comfortable spots.

2. 30 days ago on Fred Basset

   I think Taffy’s a Welsh terrier. Taffy is a sort of corruption of the Welsh “Daffyd”, their form of David. (Remember the nursery rhyme, “Taffy was a Welshman/Taffy was a thief…”)

3. 30 days ago on Fred Basset

   This morning, my sister told my Chorkie furnephew that he had two reasons to celebrate this weekend…Cinco de Mayo for his Chihuahua half and the coronation for his Yorkshire half.

4. about 1 month ago on Fred Basset

   Maybe it’s different in the U.K. Ours just asks for the license number, and, where applicable, the number of the parking space.

5. about 1 month ago on Peanuts

   Never let it be said that Charlie Brown didn’t have his small victories now and then.

6. about 1 month ago on Peanuts

   Nope, according to Schulz, he’s just got very light hair (what used to be called “tow-headed”) that’s mostly buzz-cut, as many boys used to wear their hair in the Fifties (after all, the strip started in 1950). To get a look at what a real-life Charlie Brown would probably look like, check out this All Oxi detergent commercial. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tFWJlt6LIc8&ab_channel=outlaw01

7. about 1 month ago on Fred Basset

   Who wouldn’t be? (I’ve always said that if there’s anything to reincarnation, I’d like to come back as a house pet in a good home.)

8. about 1 month ago on Peanuts

   I think it was one of Sidney Paget’s illustrations for the original stories in Strand Magazine that first showed Holmes in a deerstalker.

9. about 1 month ago on Peanuts

   Yeah, it wasn’t so much that he was neglected, it’s just that he was a literal dirt magnet. There were a few strips where he was clean, but nearly the second he stepped outside, the dirt and dust jumped onto him!

10. about 1 month ago on Peanuts

    Well, not by this point.