"So, as a lot of you know, I recently suffered a major hard drive crash, and lost all of my e-mail information going back to may. This is plainly inconvenient for many reasons which are too self-evident to be worth wasting any of the world's precious supply of ASCII on. In constructing this particular strip, though, there was a particular problem which there was no obvious solution to".

"See that sign on the front of the sign there? The funny little cartoon Molotov mascot was contributed by one of my readers, but for the life of me, I CANNOT REMEMBER WHO! What's more, the information simply does not exist on my hard drive any more! It is most frustrating, since normally I'm all about giving credit where credit's due...".