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1. 1 day ago on Arlo and Janis

   Radio broadcasts are delayed 7 seconds so they can be bleeped in case of the utterance of a forbidden word. TV probably uses satellite transmission and a bleep delay. Why I could never watch the Vikings while listening to the radio (Paul Allen is an HOF legend). I used to work for a telecommunications equipment manufacturer and we had a satellite delay device. Maybe I should break out the Raspberry Pi and try to build a delay circuit.

2. 14 days ago on For Better or For Worse

   It’s to demonstrate why Socialism never works.

3. 16 days ago on Baby Blues

   I took my son to see what had to be the worst action movie of all time, The Shadow with Alec Baldwin. A man an aisle over began loudly snoring and my son, who was about 12 at the time, was getting ready to pelt him with ice from his drink. I told him I would handle it. I walked over to the man, touched him on the shoulder and said “Excuse me, sir, but your snoring is keeping the rest of us awake”. Big laugh from the other moviegoers, probably the only enjoyment any of us got.

4. about 1 month ago on WuMo

   I never heard the phrase “parcel shop” before today. Which led me to discover that this is a Danish comic strip, which explains a lot.

5. about 2 months ago on Close to Home

   Where’s the folding table to crash through?

6. 2 months ago on WuMo

   Julius Caesar was not an emperor, either. His office was dictator perpetuo, dictator for life. In times of emergency, a single individual with supreme power was selected, usually for a term on one year. His powers overrode all other government offices. As it was, Caesar’s perpetual dictatorship lasted only a couple of months before he was assassinated. His adopted son, Octavian, after a couple pf brutal civil wars, became the first emperor. Thereafter the name Caesar was adopted by each succeeding emperor.

7. 3 months ago on JumpStart

   Me too. Though why your alma mater keeps asking me for donations, I’ll never understand.

8. 3 months ago on For Better or For Worse

   Warning – this comic pushes ads and they don’t screen them for phishing or other harmful behaviors. One dropped on me earlier. Bad website, bad. Now go sit in the corner and think about what you did.

9. 3 months ago on Pearls Before Swine

   “Evil is such a Christian term. Orange man, though, is the first that I would call truly evil. I go Blue.” Let’s ask Peanut the Squirrel which is the evil side.

10. 3 months ago on Baby Blues

    The world’s shortest story “For sale: baby shoes, never worn.” Often attributed to Ernest Hemingway, evidence indicates in part it may have existed in other form previously. Supposedly, Hemingway won a ten dollar bet that he could write the world’s shortest tragedy or short story, I’ve heard it both ways. A ten dollar wager was no small amount in those days, when workers assembling the model T got five dollars a day so that they might be wealthy enough to be able to buy a car. The above story won the bet. Now, despite people today finding evidence of similar elements, it’s quite unlikely that Hemingway would have encountered any of them. Nowadays you just hop over to Wikipedia and you’ll find someone disputing the story, but the amount information available to people today is many orders of magnitude to what people had available just a couple of decades ago. In the 80’s we had usenet. If you needed a sample of code you could ask on .c or and maybe overnight but more likely in a week someone MIGHT get back to you with an answer. And that’s only about 40 years ago.