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YES! ABSOLUTELY!! THE ONLY ONES OF THIS STRIP THAT I READ ARE THE ONES WITH KITTY IN THEM!

One more Bill Mauldin:

For my part Bill Mauldin was the best of the WWII Army cartoonists and Willy and Joe were the best subjects. Get a copy of his 1945 book "Up Front" and I think you might agree.

By pure coincidence I was recently talking with someone whose father was stationed in Northeast India during WWII, where Terry and his pals are now. As a sergeant in the Signal Corps, manning a radar station looking for a Japanese attack which never came, he had it pretty well made. She was...

Concerning the mention of Skeezix attending military school: I happened to find and buy at an antique store one of those "Little Big Books" (or "Big Little Books"?) - the ones about an inch and a half thick and only 3 x 4 inches wide and tall. "Skeezix at Military School". Well done as usual...

Could not get all the way through "Eraserhead" the first time, so seeing it again is DEFINITELY out of the question.

It doesn't only occur in Northern States. Here in Nashville (mid-South) there were a LOT of dissatisfied electric car owners. I won't call them electric car "drivers" since they weren't going anywhere. Batteries lose capacity in the cold - it's called physics and chemistry...

It's nothing short of amazing the small military details that he captures, and it's not big-issue plot points, but the smallest items that you can imagine. Recently when their revolver was shown, you could tell it was a *Colt* Model of 1917. (Not a Smith and Wesson, which also made Model of...

I have told a number of folks that the word "electronic" comes from the Greek word meaning "You can't fix it." Most people agree that the idea makes sense, even if not really true. (I have a Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering and I can't begin to fix a modern car. My Electrical Engineering...

Just saw "Twelve O'clock High", and Gregory Peck gives an almost exact version of Lt. Speirs' words to his flight crews.

I must have punched thousands of those cards back in my Fortran programming days, but I never saw one of those. An interesting item...

I built one as a science project in the 6th grade. You could barely hear it. Better than nothing, I guess, but not by much...

"(AMERICA'S NUMBER ONE HERO KITTY!)" Why don't they delete those stupid mutts and continue with the adventures of "Kitty"?

You're just a young whippersnapper if you think that sign is old. How about "premium" for 29.9 to feed my 1960's muscle car? It had enough octane (and lead) to support 11:1 compression ratio.

Agree completely... My parents and their friends never pined for the Great Depression and a World War. As far as I could tell they were quite pleased that things were mostly peaceful and prosperous in later life.