Pepper Mill, too.
She also goes “Quack quack quack …quack quack…quack quack…” when I have The Blue Danube playing.*
*From “A Corny Concerto”, a Bob Clampett cartoon from the 1940s parodying Disney’s “Fantasia”. “Kill the Wabbit!” is from Chuck Jones’ 1950s cartoon “What’s Opera, Doc?”
They tend not to like root beer. The wintergreen reminds them of Salonpas liniment. 
I always got the impression that Watterson named his characters after getting a look at The Britannica Great Books collection (not to be confused with The Harvard Classics). One volume is devoted to the writings of John Calvin, and has “Calvin” on the spine. Not far away is a volume of Macchiavelli and Hobbes, with those two name on the spine. And the very next volume is the works of Herman Melville. (Melville is the name of Calvin’s imaginary little brother)
I don’t know that this is official, but it’s how I see them sold:
Comforter- the filling is permanently encased in a cover , which may be in any color or pattern including those that coordinate with sheets.When it needs to be washed, you wash the whole thing.You could probably use a duvet cover on it to avoid washing the whole thing,but then it would no longer match the sheets.*
Duvet - just the filling. It’s white and comes in different weights, but it’s usually thinner than a comforter. It doesn’t get cleaned frequently and probably needs dry cleaning. Sometimes called a “duvet insert”.
Duvet cover- covers a duvet like a pillowcase. Various colors and patterns , including patterns that coordinate with sheets. Bought separately from the duvet, so if you have three sets of sheets you can have three matching covers for a single duvet.
*I’ve never seen a set of sheets that had both a matching comforter and a matching duvet cover.
That is what in the UK I think we would call either a bedspread (if it didn’t have a fluffy filling) or an eiderdown if it did.
I’ve heard the story that when L. Frank Baum was trying to come up with a name for his imaginary land, he happened to look at his file cabinet; the first was labeled A-N, the second was O-Z.
Took me longer than I care to admit to finally figure out that in The Hunger Games, ‘Panem’ comes from ‘panem et circenses’, bread and games, a way to appease the populace. I mean, they could’ve introduced some subtle references to ancient Rome in order to drop a hint, no? :smack:
Years ago when the San Jose Mercury picked up C&H after it had been running a while, they just started it, no introductory strips or anything. For about a week I was puzzling over the premise (Why does the kid have a pet tiger, albeit a friendly one?). The penny dropped when came the strip where Calvin was bashing a monster under the bed until his father hauled up the (stuffed) Hobbes saying, “It’s not a monster, it’s just your stuffed toy.” Last panel the (live) Hobbes is next to him in bed.
“Heh, heh. Sorry, buddy. Good thing I missed once in a while, huh.”
“Yeah. Gimme that stick a minute, would ya?”
The neighborhood watch signs here have a guy like a slender Boris Badenov.
It has only been in the last year or so I’ve been thinking the guy is a bad guy and the good guys are watching for him–I assumed he was a cloak and dagger neighborhood watcher and that it was a bad-arse neighborhood so look out!
OMG, thank you - my next cat will be named Schrodinger (Ding, for short)! 
No, it’s not named after a person. It’s a shortening of “Might as well”, as in, “I guess I might as well just win this, am I right?”. An overly casual phrasing of a difficult achievement. Shortened to “Mise well, amirite?” and then to just “Mise.”
A lot of Magic slang involves cutting out words. “Must be nice to run so well” became “Must be nice” which became “Must”. And then the response to “Must” naturally just became “Is”.
Consider me “schooled”. ty 
Airplane! Late in the movie, the nun is playing guitar and singing to the two black guys. The skinny guy, the one with food poisoning, doubles over and vomits while the large guy pats his shoulder sympathetically. It was a few years before I caught on that it was her take on “R-E-S-P-E-C-T” that was making him sick.
Just discovered another one. Apparently I’ve been reading and hearing “Dr. Strangelove” with an extra G for the last forty-odd years. It’s “Strange Glove”, isn’t it? No?
This must be related to the Berenstain Bears time rift. I always remembered them as the Berenstein Bears, and I also thought that Nelson Mandela died long before 2013.
Sounds very Yiddish:
*Oy, vey! That verkakte **shlep **just **misled *me! Such a nogoodnik! :smack:
The story I heard was that the original lyrics were: “What would you do if I sang out of tune / would you throw ripe tomatoes at me?”
However the group thought it best to change that, since, in the past, ardent fans had thrown “jelly babies” (jelly beans) at them in concert, after they had mentioned that they enjoyed that kind of candy.
If you and Pepper Mill ever want some more (mostly very good) earworms along this line, check out Beethoven’s Wig. Richard Perlmutter, the guy responsible for this bit of enjoyable lunacy, has added lyrics to a fair number of well-known classical numbers. For instance:
Eine Kleine Nachtmusik:
Please don’t play your violin at night
Wolfgang, go to bed, turn out the light…
March of the Toreadors from Carmen:
*
Please keep your bull outside the china shop,
No bulls allowed, that’s where they stop…*
Not actually so.
The original version of the logo was laid out like the constellation, but…
The Subaru logo has never had 7 stars. The traditional Japanese interpretation of the constellation only has 6 stars, and the logo matched that.
There were no 7 partners. Subaru is a division of Fuji Heavy Industries, which was merged from of 5 companies. One interpretation of the logo, which comes close to the ‘7 partners’ idea, though I don’t know how official it is, is that the large star in the logo represents FHI, and the others represent the original 5 companies.
Or, as Leiber and Stoller had it:
One little piggy ate pizza
One piggy ate potato chips
This little piggy’s coming over your house
He’s gonna nibble on your sweet lips.
Given that it’s Airplane I suppose anything is possible, but I don’t think this is right.
I think he’s just another passenger who has food poisoning.
He did complain earlier that he got the “pain runnin’ down to the bone”.