Annie, as I’m sure you’ll remember, was a child prodigy, a genius. She could outsmart and outthink just about every other character in the strip.This included outsmarting and outthinking some of the more unsavory characters. Give her a stool, and she’d win all your money at pool. Give her a booster seat, and she’d win all your money at poker.Unfortunately, certain unsavory characters take offense at being outsmarted, especially when money is involved. And they don’t always use, “thinking,” in their day to day activities. These people are known by a number of names: the Mob, the Syndicate, the Mafioso, etc.Thus, sad to say, Annie is now experiencing a serious bout of negative buoyancy at the bottom of the Hudson River. There, she shares fashionable cement shoe accessories with a notorious assortment of gentlemen who made the mistake of believing they could outthink these people and get away with it.You don’t cross the Don. You just don’t. Annie crossed the Don.Poor thing. They couldn’t even find a pair of cement galoshes in her size. They had to stuff all of her into the left one. [sniff]
Annie, as I’m sure you’ll remember, was a child prodigy, a genius. She could outsmart and outthink just about every other character in the strip.This included outsmarting and outthinking some of the more unsavory characters. Give her a stool, and she’d win all your money at pool. Give her a booster seat, and she’d win all your money at poker.Unfortunately, certain unsavory characters take offense at being outsmarted, especially when money is involved. And they don’t always use, “thinking,” in their day to day activities. These people are known by a number of names: the Mob, the Syndicate, the Mafioso, etc.Thus, sad to say, Annie is now experiencing a serious bout of negative buoyancy at the bottom of the Hudson River. There, she shares fashionable cement shoe accessories with a notorious assortment of gentlemen who made the mistake of believing they could outthink these people and get away with it.You don’t cross the Don. You just don’t. Annie crossed the Don.Poor thing. They couldn’t even find a pair of cement galoshes in her size. They had to stuff all of her into the left one. [sniff]