Agnes by Tony Cochran for March 09, 2022

Every south american country except Chile. Other than that, I couldn’t name a single one. Well, maybe Peru and Argentina and Columbia, but that’s it.

Are we even sure South America exists?

I’ve seen plausible arguments for Australia and Finland not existing, but never Brazil.

Isn’t it time for that “teacher” to be put out to pasture??

I bet the principal would want that.

Tangential comment: love the Principal’s coffee mug…

As Neil Armstrong might say, “That’s one small step from the fake moon landing trope, a giant leap of faith for those who believe.”

no brazil, no samba…

♪ brasil, terra boa e gostosa…

When deciding on bordering nations, does one include those across a body of water? I know obviously that if the boundary is a river then the countries border each other, but would African nations, being the closest areas of land on the other side of the ocean be considered as bordering Brazil?

At least their mug has a skull on it instead of being made from a real skull.

I think Agnes may have got Brazil confuzed with Brasil. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brasil_(mythical_island)

I once spent a night in Brazil, Indiana.

Does anybody really know what time it is? Does anybody really care? About time?

Ascia to the north and the Commonwealth to the south.

Rosencrantz: I don’t believe in it anyway.

Guildenstern: What?

Rosencrantz: England.

Guildenstern: Just a conspiracy of cartographers, then?

(Tom Stoppard, “Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead”)

Wyoming doesn’t exist

I don’t believe in the studio release of “Brazil.” For me, Gilliam’s director’s cut is all that ever existed and ever will exist.

It’s true. Geography is faith-based. National borders are a fiction. They don’t exist in nature. We, humans, created them so kings could know which peasants and resources were “theirs” to exploit. (Google Treaty of Westphalia.) They only work because we believe in them, to the degree that we believe in them.

I’ve been there many times. Very nice places around Rio.

Brunette: In this article it says that 10 Brazilian people were interviewed and could not identify Brazil on a map.

Blonde: That’s so sad. How many is a Brazilian anyway?

That mug on the desk in the last panel ……. gives it all about the world of Agnes

I met a lady from Brazil, she was surprised I knew they spoke Portuguese there.

Just send her to remedial school until she’s 18, hand her an attendance certificate, and show her the door.

Of course it exists; where else would south american horsemeat(as my father called canned corned beef) come from?!?