Another delightful cartoon from Grant Snider:
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“A little lesbian joke …”
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Y’all know about n-grams, right? Wikipedia nails ’em: … an n-gram is a contiguous sequence of n items from a given[…]
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I first met Jim Siers when my flatmate, Mike – a dab hand with a soccer ball (or should that[…]
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Grant Snider’s writer’s comics
If you’re looking for an excuse for not writing, (and I have a few suggestions here, here, here and here),[…]
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