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How often do people get the death penalty for their first crime, which was a single murder where there were no other victims? My understanding is that it’s quite rare. There must be a different set of laws when the victim is a rich CEO.
You’d think an advanced civilization would have invented handrails.
You gotta feel sorry for the nerdy male kangaroos who don’t even have a pouch to begin with.
This reminds me that Andre the Giant said that often, if he went out to a bar, some drunk guy would pick a fight with him, and he’d be forced to beat them away. None of those aggressive drunks ever had a chance against him, but he didn’t like those experiences.
Back then, the poodle was a hunting breed, used to hunt waterfowl. I don’t know when it became popular in America, but it would have been a useful farm dog, just not with that haircut.
A very timely comic from 1981. I wonder how they choose which old comics to post. Are they going in chronological order or something, and this is just a coincidence, or did they actually choose this one, presumably because of what’s going on in the world?
I’m sure that Vincent van Gogh had no idea that he’d be famous in the future. But I wonder what he’d think if he knew how much we focus on his ear.
Maybe if she specialized in milkshakes
He came once about 2000 years ago, and he still hasn’t had his second coming.
This comic is a joke.
This Far Side comic is from 1984, so it’s obviously much older, but it reminds me of a scene in Babylon 5 where Londo Mollari uses his tentacles to cheat at a card game by drawing additional cards from the deck.
I’ve heard it said that “white” isn’t a proper race. It’s just a skin color. So you could make the argument that snowmen are the only actual white people, and that your uncle is a beige person.
This comic is pretty prophetic, since most people I know, at least, don’t carry any cash. People asking for spare change might as well be asking for spare armadillos.
Americans can understand if you phrase it differently.
“You know how sometimes, you go to a big event, and the parking is so far away from the event that they have to ferry people from the parking lots to the event using a bus? Well, this is just like that, except you park at home.”
Fingernail scratches all over his back? That’s pretty spicy for a Far Side comic!
IRL “that guy” would probably have already been partially eaten by the others.
So, the first time I read this, I interpreted it as these guys spent their whole lives saying they should hang out, but never got around to it.
But then, I was like, “Hey, if their graves are next to each other, they’re totally hanging out in the last panel.”
And I realized that you put people’s names on their tombstones. So, is the comic really just two guys with really weird names who are repeatedly greeting each other by saying each other’s names at various times in their lives? If their graves are next to each other, maybe they even got married or something.
Speaker of the House is not a political party position. The House Republicans don’t work for Johnson any more than the House Democrats do. They are supposed to be working for their constituents.
And while there is the need for wheeling and dealing in Washington without announcing everything, really, essentially, the House members should be bringing all of their concerns to the public. That is their fucking job, and Mike Johnson is unamerican for suggesting that they do otherwise.
I’ve heard that this type of cicada lives underground for 13 or 17 years, which immediately jumps out as being two different prime numbers.
It seems odd at first that a species seems to know about prime numbers, but there is a natural explanation. If there are ones that emerge in non-prime intervals, they are more likely to emerge at the same time due to their common factors. So those ones would tend to emerge in greater numbers, making them easier for predators to specialize in.
But staying underground for long intervals in prime numbers of years makes it difficult for those predators, so the prime cicadas would have an evolutionary advantage.