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[-] [email protected] 1 points 5 days ago
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For a while, that parent.com article comes across as the pajamas spontaneously igniting, but it sounds like what actually happened was that the burned kids got ahold of matches, a lighter, a candle, or another flame.

I've never heard this before. Clothing that doesn't burn well seems like a good idea, in general.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 5 days ago

Yeah while reading the article I could not figure the source of ignition for the clothing. I grew up in dry New Mexico, I remember as a kid when I would get into bed I would see static discharge in my blankets. So I kept wondering if that was the source. Then finally they mentioned matches etc.

[-] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago

My son's cat sits like Bill. So I edited him into today's strip.

[-] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago

...little did Berke know at the time the events set in motion by this strip...

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LOL nice find, I don't remember that moment.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

Just as Opus was coming into his own, he was overshadowed by Bill.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

I want a Bill plushy that stinks when squeezed

[-] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago

I do have a regular plush, does not stink.

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Is this really the first appearance of Bill the Cat?

[-] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago

First appearance June 13, 1982

According to Wikipedia and this strip, yes.

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Bloom County is an American comic strip by Berkeley Breathed which originally ran from December 8, 1980, until August 6, 1989. It examined events in politics and culture through the viewpoint of a fanciful small town in Middle America, where children often have adult personalities and vocabularies and where animals can talk.

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