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1. about 10 hours ago on Andertoons

   Illustrations!, A picture is worth a thousand words if it’s big enough.

2. about 11 hours ago on Doonesbury

   I would describe the wilful withholding of knowledge from children to be parental child-abuse.

   As there seems to be NO age at which these parents are inclined to impart it to their kids.

3. about 11 hours ago on Doonesbury

   Most of that would be recognition by the stockmarket of Tesla finally hitting its stride.

   We will have to see if like Henry Ford, he turns sour.

   But I think Tesla is but a means to an end.

4. about 11 hours ago on Calvin and Hobbes

   Far, far older than the both of us orinoco

5. about 11 hours ago on Calvin and Hobbes

   Quote Investigator: The earliest evidence known to QI appeared in an issue of the London humor magazine “Punch” in 1923. Initially, the limerick “Relativity” was published without attribution:1

   Relativity.

   There was a young lady named BrightWhose speed was far faster than light;She set out one dayIn a relative wayAnd returned on the previous night.

   In 1937 a Professor of Botany named A. H. Reginald Buller wrote a letter to “The Observer” newspaper in London and claimed authorship of the limerick. 

6. about 11 hours ago on Calvin and Hobbes

   Are you sure you had cats, or were they alien facsimiles sent here to spy on us?

7. 1 day ago on Calvin and Hobbes

   Looking at your profile, I might understand your amazement at the habits of housecats. :b

8. 1 day ago on Calvin and Hobbes

   Very old physics limerick

9. 1 day ago on Mike Luckovich

   Where there’s muck there’s brass.

10. 1 day ago on Doonesbury

    Reference what I said about drive, that’s what it takes to get where he is.We need to suspend judgement on the evil bit till we and future generations see what he did with his money and power.