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1. about 21 hours ago on Non Sequitur

   … name all of the battles of the American Civil War?

   I don’t think anyone could do that. Does anyone really know how many there were?

2. about 21 hours ago on Pearls Before Swine

   I’m all prepared for that — bought a plot on a hillside in a small town, had a tombstone made with a picture of my second motorcycle two miles up in the Rocky Mountains, paid for my funeral and a casket, appointed an executor (and replaced the first young guy when he croaked), and wrote my will.

   Still here. Guess I’m going to live forever.

3. 1 day ago on Pearls Before Swine

   Long ago I discovered a sure-fire way of making sure my worries never come true:

   Prepare for them. Nothing I’m ready for has ever happened.

4. 1 day ago on Pearls Before Swine

   I had to look that up — d-CON rodent control.

5. 1 day ago on Non Sequitur

   I remember in college when one student was caught copying the answer from his friend. Trouble was that his friend’s answer was completely off base.

6. 3 days ago on Pearls Before Swine

   Best red eye flight I ever had was non-stop from Honolulu to Toronto. Over the Pacific we had the usual service of the period — meal, drinks, movie — and then everyone went to sleep just as the sun was coming up. I am unable to sleep on airplanes so I kept my window open just enough to see out (I had chosen port side window seat for just this purpose).

   The first thing I saw was the Golden Gate and San Francisco Bay. Then some low mountains, the big valley, much higher mountains, possibly Lake Tahoe, then an endless expanse of brown desert with nothing to be seen but a dirt track miles below.

   Later I saw the Great Salt Lake so I knew we were over Utah, followed by very high mountains coming almost halfway up to where we were. Then farmland, Chicago, Lake Michigan and so on until we got home.

   For most of this time I believe I was the only person awake in the cabin and, I suspect, at least in the early part of the flight the pilots, too, may have been asleep.

   Not one cloud the entire trip — that never happens.

7. 3 days ago on Pearls Before Swine

   I don’t know but I do know that if you use a flash when taking a picture of someone that person’s pupils will often look red in the photograph. The bright light from the flash reflects off the retinas of the eyes.

8. 3 days ago on Pearls Before Swine

   And his cult would be correct. You can learn how to lie to a polygraph in an hour (Aspirin helps). And — if you have no training, do not believe in the dammed machine, and are innocent — you will be found guilty.

   That is why polygraph evidence is not accepted anywhere in the world except the USA.

9. 3 days ago on Pearls Before Swine

   Power corrupts. Absolute power is a joy forever.

   A thing of beauty corrupts absolutely.

10. 3 days ago on Pearls Before Swine

    Years ago I had a rather sour-tempered female accountant from the Canada Revenue Agency turn up at my home with a young male trainee in tow so she could show him how I was overstating my business expenses. The two of them went through every penny I had claimed — and I had receipts to back up all of it.

    She was fuming when she left.