Today’s comic comes to you courtesy of a dandy little USB-to-Thunderbolt connector. If you were hoping for something Valentine’s Day-ish, I like this one from 2016.
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I try not to rely on this template too often, but today I was just worn out and I’ll tell you a shameful secret, I forgot today was stix day until just now. I’m glad I remembered in time!
“To the stars through stupidity.” I don’t know if I declined fatuitas correctly, I made it dative, but maybe it should be accusative? I was terrible at Latin even while I was studying it. EDIT: A helpful reader has corrected[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Are You OK, Merriam-Webster?
It’s possible Thursdays were a bad idea and I should move to Tuesdays or Wednesdays. I’ll see how I feel after a few weeks. I did run across an instance of taunt for taut today, but I’m pretty sure that[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
…And then, just as I was about to post this comic, my goldfish tank’s filter failed and I had to run downtown for a replacement before the pet store closed.
Full disclosure: I couldn’t actually find a picture of Sauerwald (whose name means “sour forest,” I think), so I just faked it. When asked why he’d helped the Freuds (and their maid!) get out of Austria, he replied that while[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Though there are differing accounts of how it happened, historians seem to agree that Hitler and Maurice (who looked a bit like Terry Jones of Monty Python) eventually fell out not because of Maurice’s non-Aryan ancestry but because he got[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…