Well, so long Civil War. It’s been a good very-nearly-a-year with Napoleon and Kate, Ulysses and Edgar Allen, Nathan Bedford and Flaveraham, Robert-Houdin and the Thoremerson, Riemann and Douglass and JEB and Joule and Disraeli… But we’ve had our fun, […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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Yeah. We do an awful lot of set-up for some of our puns. –Geoff
Yes! ETHAN… ALLEN!! Much has happened to him since he took Fort Ticonderoga, didn’t take Montreal, and wrote a kick-ass tract in favor of reasoned deism. But that’s all in the Standard history books. Let’s see where he’s been the […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
As far as I can figure, the modern furniture company Ethan Allen has no direct tie to the historical Ethan Allen. It seems to be just as simple as ‘This furniture company started up in Vermont, where Ethan Allen was […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Why, I haven’t seen the upside-down Pope picture in a while! –Geoff
What WOULD the founding fathers have thought of modern America? I think it’s safe to say that Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, George Washington, and Thomas Paine would all be extremely proud of the nation we are holding together. Liberties have […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I’m only 95% certain, but it looks to me like Dick Cheney is making an uncredited guest appearance in panel 3. As my Uncle always says, “Dick Cheney before he dicks you.” Ha ha! I’m just kidding. It’s far too […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Why else do you have five robots if not to form some larger robot from them? Further, some might say that a robotic combine harvester could just as easily drive itself, and that therefore the role of The Beaver is […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
If memory serves me correctly, in Japan groups contain five things. If you had a half dozen eggs to sell, you would bill them as five plus one. I’m not sure why six isn’t as good as five, but I […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I am now officially twitterpated. So, if you for some reason want to see EXACTLY when I am scanning in the inks for an episode or, say, reading about Gladstone, head on over to Twitter and follow around CountDvL as […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…