I’ve never heard that the Ainu were associated with red hair or pink complexion in any way. My guess would be that the woman and the boat went adrift off the cliffs of Moher and unusually strong currents just took them to Japan.

I think 1982 might have been the last year that I had to do it. Maybe I just blocked it out after that.

I wonder if “diagramming sentences” is still done in school

It’s a common side effect of having a good sense of rhythm

Woman used as an adjective like this sounds so wrong to me (probably because it isn’t an adjective). If you wouldn’t say man voter, man driver, men reporters, etc., then why would you say woman voter, women drivers, woman reporter? Just because some people use ‘female’ in a way that you object to shouldn’t make all uses of it objectionable. Do you want a world in which we can say ‘male patients’, but have to say ‘woman and girl patients’ instead of female patients? Why??

We had the Sears version. Just not as cool

Impossible! It’s © 1986

Interesting that early canines had a very cat-like gait

Were any of them any good?

For those unfamiliar, Henny Youngman, comedian

The more I see posts that say “I don’t get it”, the older I feel. I guess I never realised how much Larson’s comics reflected and commented on the time they were written

Oh, yeah, his home life is a bit rough. Everett’s wife was pretty big on domestic violence, at least over the course of the years of the comic that I have seen. Typically, Everett would make some remark that offended her, then BAM!

She was at least as violent as Maggie was with Jiggs in Bringing Up Father, and her self-righteousness made it all the worse

I love that those two have hats

etherized

First known use in 1847

Unlike Thagomizer, not a word coined by Larson

Unfortunately, this error appears a lot even in more “serious” sci-fi. Really breaks immersion, doesn’t it?

I’m really OK with this interpretation

Larson drew them often enough; he really should know better.

Volume 6 is anesthesia

Nothing says “science” like an erlenmeyer flask

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