Following is another installment of comments from readers. You can't make up this kind of stuff.

Good grief!
• From an e-mail:

"Why bring back 'Hagar [the Horrible]'? It is such a boring comic. I swear it repeats itself on an eight-week cycle. 'Ollie & Quentin' is a refreshing relief to some of the mundane comics ... on Sundays."

• Another e-mail:

"The comics, most times, are the most intelligent part of the newspaper, considering what is going on in the world today. ... 'Hagar' is a family man who faces everyday problems in a most unusual way. The Wiz, King and crew made me laugh as they reminded me of our political leaders."

• And still another:

"Here's an idea for your countdown:

"How many days (weeks, months, years!) until 'Hagar' returns?"

"Hagar" returns March 2. I've also found a way to hang on to "Ollie & Quentin" and give it a longer tryout. "Wizard of Id" is still benched.

Imagine this: In the early 1950s, editors all over the country made decisions to drop a comic and take a chance on a new one about a round-headed boy and his beagle. I think it was called "Peanuts."

Say what?
• From a caller objecting to the Feb. 3 headline "Teachers behaving badly."

"You wouldn't have written 'Jews behaving badly.' "

I need some help with this one. The last time I looked, teachers were not considered members of an ethnic group or a protected class.

• From an e-mail about my picture in the two-page spread Feb. 10 of Lancaster Newspapers' employees in the "Progress" supplement.

"As a 38-year 'loyal employee' of Lancaster Newspaper Inc., you have to get your high school graduation picture out of your personnel file."

What, you don't believe I started here when I was 6?

• From an e-mail, after we did not print Maureen Dowd's column on a recent Sunday:

"What happened to her column? I hope you did not bow to the radical right of Lancaster County."

There's a radical right in Lancaster County? Actually, things happen so quickly, particularly in primary election season, that political columns can be outdated before Sunday. Even if we don't print a particular column, you can still find it on our Web site, LancasterOnline.com.

Last shall be first
• From an e-mail:

"Unlike others, I DO enjoy reading your column first and then your daughter's comments. She sounds like a 12-year-old going on 21."

• Another e-mail (reader also commented on comics above):

"I hope you realize when the 2 in the 12 becomes a 3, you will need a whole column to report living with a teen. My sympathies will be extended to you and your better half."

I could use some of that sympathy now. And what makes you think I'm not the "better half?"

Yes, you are
Abigail's playmates are the Talbert sisters, 14, 8 and 6. (There's finally a boy, 3 months).

Jordan, the youngest daughter, sees eye-to-eye — physically — with our Great Dane, and she doesn't like that.

"She was cute when she was a puppy," Jordan complained.

"You were cute, too, when you were a baby," I told Jordan.

Jordan gave me a defiant look.

"I'm still cute!"

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