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1. 3 days ago on Pearls Before Swine

   One reason I prefer British shows is that they use real-people actors, not stereotypes.

2. 3 days ago on Pearls Before Swine

   Exactly. This is what happens when the captions are based on the script. For older shows, where the captions are created by dictation software, the results can be very comical (especially with British shows captioned by American AI).

3. 3 days ago on Pearls Before Swine

   I was about to say the same thing. Though of course what the actor is “known for” may not be what you know him/her from.

4. 3 days ago on Pearls Before Swine

   Closed captions are a lifesaver. Even with hearing aids, I would never catch any of the dialog without them, and they often capture sotte voce or offstage dialog that I would defy anyone to hear (though it is in the script).

5. 22 days ago on Garfield

   I agree. We never manage to get our tree up that early, but we definitely leave it up till Epiphany, along with the electric candles in our front windows.

6. 29 days ago on Crankshaft

   Some papers run only the Sunday strips.

7. 29 days ago on Crankshaft

   We still have somewhere (I hope) a Super 8 projector AND a splicer, not to mention the home movies (color but silent, as we’re that old). I don’t think we have the camera, though. Used to have a Wollensak reel-to-reel tape recorder until someone unaccountably stole it from our storage locker (fortunately omitting to take the tapes).

8. about 1 month ago on For Better or For Worse

   Mine would have been the ’50s, though I did lose my last tooth in ninth grade!

9. about 1 month ago on For Better or For Worse

   I think I maybe got a quarter (or even a dime).

10. about 1 month ago on For Better or For Worse

    I was awake, with local anesthetic (having vowed, after my first delivery, that I would never have general anesthetic again, a vow I kept until my first—and last—colonscopy), so I was aware of the surgeon commenting that my wisdom teeth were the worst impacted he’d ever seen.