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1. about 1 month ago on Pickles

   No.

2. about 1 month ago on F Minus

   How did Steven Wright get in here?

3. 3 months ago on Big Nate

   A Tom Hanks line from “A League of Their Own,” in which he says “There’s no crying in baseball."

4. 3 months ago on Big Nate

   Opportunity missed for a funny movie reference. He should have said “There’s no hugging in Monopoly."

5. 3 months ago on Barney & Clyde

   H. Walker thought it would get him a Senate seat.

6. 4 months ago on Pooch Cafe

   Good punning, and the Thorogood version is excellent, but please¬a little respect for Hank!

7. 4 months ago on Arlo and Janis

   Hot chocolate!

8. 4 months ago on Agnes

   “laws, like sausages, cease to inspire respect in proportion as we know how they are made.” — John Godfrey Saxe, 19th-century American poet

9. 4 months ago on Frazz

   The fourth wall is an imaginary aspect of a theatrical setting, which nevertheless must be “broken” in order to refer to it from within the cartoon (although “acknowledged” might be a better word). Einstein’s “fourth dimension” is “time,” which is what the cartoon makes transparent (although “translucent" or “dilated” might be a better word). I’m making some of this up, but using real words.

10. 4 months ago on Frazz

    Never mind the nitpicking about prehistoric anachronisms and the science of petrification, what about the the pictorial brilliance on display in the lower left-hand corner of the scene, which is shown at two overlapping points in time through a chronosynclastic window? Jef Mallett doesn’t just break the “fourth wall,” he makes the fourth dimension transparent!