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1. about 7 hours ago on Matt Wuerker

   Hmmm … kinda reminds me of the selling of “indulgences” that inspired Martin Luther to raise objections that resulted in the splitting and diminishing of the Roman Catholic Church.

2. 2 days ago on Non Sequitur

   “Embrace Nature” … pretty impossible when one is surrounded by concrete, asphalt, and brick. The only green thing in that picture might be some algae growing in the trickle of water at the curb, unless, of course, it’s just a shadow)—not exactly embraceable in either case.

3. 4 days ago on Over the Hedge

   Well, my body’s 80, inside my head I’m 35 … but my knees, now—they’re about 100!

4. 6 days ago on Phoebe and Her Unicorn

   According to Merriam-Webster:“esprit de l’escalier, French noun phrase: wit of the staircase : repartee thought of only too late, on the way home.”

5. 6 days ago on Clay Bennett

   Notice the wide-open pockets, ready to receive “gifts”, aka “bribes”.

6. 6 days ago on Nick Anderson

   Notice how you have 38 (and counting) Likes and our troll has only 3? Which is 3 more than trolls usually get.

7. 8 days ago on One Big Happy

   Fresh out of college, my first year of teaching (7th and 8th grade math and science), I was “adopted” by the parents of one of my students. They had me over to dinner many times, as well as many daytime visits; they let me stay in their guest room for several days when I was flattened by a bad case of the flu; I taught their 12 year old daughter to sew and we made a birthday present for her mom; I hand-knit and sewed presents for all six family members; I house-sat for them while they were on vacation; and they helped me out when I baby-sat the minister’s 2 preschoolers while he and his wife attended a week-long seminar by letting me bring the babies to their ranch to play with their two younger kids. I’m not sure I would have survived that first year of teaching without that family’s help!

8. 9 days ago on Dogs of C-Kennel

   I would be so impressed that he could speak in complete, grammatically correct sentences, using so many multisyllabic words, that I would definitely give him a chance, if for no other reason than to see if he could keep it up.

9. 9 days ago on Family Tree

   I’m an 80-year-old woman and I mow my own lawn. In the 1970s I did it at my mobile home space with a push mower on a postage-stamp sized yard, and I’ve done it for the last 35 years on an average sized yard. However, I’ve been steadily reducing the size of the lawn and increasing the size of the surrounding planting beds, finishing my last digging project yesterday. My front and side lawns are just 5 ft. wide strips between planters and my back lawn is just 10 ft. wide and about 40 ft long—less to mow and water.

10. 9 days ago on Non Sequitur

    How long before that last man has a nervous breakdown and/or collapses from overwork and exhaustion, leaving no one left to do the work?