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WCDT: 2646-2650 (Feb 24 - 28 2014) Weekly Comics Discussion Thread
Near Lurker:
--- Quote from: Zebediah on 28 Feb 2014, 14:34 ---What I want to know is why the bank teller looks like Little Orphan Annie.
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Daddy Warbucks decided she had to learn responsibility.
ZoeB:
--- Quote from: Storel on 28 Feb 2014, 01:05 ---Along the same line of logic, I've been saying for many years now that since corn oil is made from corn, peanut oil is made from peanuts, and olive oil is made from olives, clearly baby oil is made from babies.
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Yes, but after the hot-press, the residue mass is freeze-dried, ground and made into baby powder.
From the same artist:
Storel:
--- Quote from: KOK on 28 Feb 2014, 23:28 ---
--- Quote from: Storel on 28 Feb 2014, 14:12 ---When/how did he say that, btw? I've never heard of anything Piet Hein's written besides his Grooks books, and that doesn't sound like a grook.
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I do not know when. But he also wrote prose grooks, like this one. And several other things.
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Aha, okay, I'd totally forgotten there were prose grooks. Guess I need to find some of those books again; it's been a long time. The only grook I can even remember at this point is this one (phrasing may be imperfect because it's been decades since the last time I read it):
--- Quote from: Piet Hein ---Relativity*
To wear a shirt that's relatively clean
You needn't ever launder off the dirt
As long as you've two shirts to choose between
And always change into the cleaner shirt.
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* A grook with no reference whatsoever to the two-party system.
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The first time I read this, I thought it was about bachelor life... until I noticed the footnote. 8-)
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