Hump Day Equals DINOSAUR FIGHT!

It's already Wednesday? This week is flying by at high speed.  No time to waste: On with the show!

Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis:

Wait, Pig eats bacon and sausages??? NOOOOOO!!!!!!! Pig, you cannibal!  On a side note, I bet real pigs would eat bacon and sausages without any understanding and compunction.  They really do eat anything food that you throw in front of them.  Of course, I think this used to be my diet back in the day. The unfunny part is that I probably deluded myself in the same way as Pig!


Soup to Nutz by Rick Stromoski:

I add Soup to Nuts here, not to bemoan that the United States still fails to grasp the metric system (rebels, baby! we're a nation of rebels!), but rather to mention Andrew's use of kilometerstone rather than milestone.  Really, it's an intelligent and accurate usage. Milestone dates back to the Romans marking the roads in the 3rd century, which means they weren't exactly using the United States mile as the unit of measurement. 

I also bring it up to highlight an embarrassing episode from my youth, where when learning about the metric system, I understood kilometer having read about it, but never used it in conversation or heard it on TV (I was allowed to watch baseball, not much else, in my youth as TV, per my father, was the idiot box rotting our brains).  So when talking about it in the class, I had no idea what the teacher was talking about with kilometer, as I had it in my mind as a "kilo" "meter" (that is, I pronounced it kee-loh mee-tuhr instead of kil ohm eh ter).  God knows what my classmates thought of me mangling the words, but I wanted to dig a hole under my desk and crawl away.  Funny how a memory like that stays with you into adulthood. 


Alley Oop by Jack and Carole Bender:

I'm not a big Alley Oop fan (at least, not since I was 8 and found a collection of classic newspaper comics at my grandfather's house...I still preferred Terry and the Pirates, The Katzenjammer Kids, and Thimble Theatre), but...DINOSAUR FIGHT!!!  WHOO-HOO!!!


9 to 5 by Harley Schwadron:

Gotta hand to Shwadron, that's EVERY company's business model.  I should have scrounged capital in the late 90's and started a crappy tech company to pump full of venture capital cash and get a rich business to shell out a ton of cash during that six-month period in 1999 when any company an "i" in front of it.  I was THAT close to being that greedy CEO in the cartoon. 


The Meaning of Lila by John Forgetta and L.A. Rose:

I like the Meaning of Lila. It's semi-hip, entertaining, and doesn't pander to the audience like some of the horror-shows that remain in syndication.  I add it here because it reminds me of my wife: she always had said to me "you're really a nice guy.  You must have some evil side. Where do you bury all the bodies?"

Of course, I never tell her where I stashed them all...