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1. 2 months ago on Non Sequitur

   An example of brat as a negative word – the Oompa Loompas song for Veruca Salt in the original Willy Wonka film.

   “Who do you blame when your kid is a bratPampered and spoiled like a Siamese cat?Blaming the kids is a lie and a shameYou know exactly who’s to blame:The mother and the father!”

2. 2 months ago on Non Sequitur

   GOAT is another. In comic history, it was Charlie Brown’s self-insult after every time he blew a ball game throughout the 60s and 70s.

   But today, “Greatest Of All Time”.

   But yeah, I grew up with brat being an insult, particularly in the context, “spoiled little brat”.

3. 2 months ago on Pearls Before Swine

   awfully rare for Rat to be on the right side of the corporatism divide. usually his cynicism results in a ‘yeah, but who cares’ type of 4th panel.

4. 3 months ago on Doonesbury

   It is Trip. Doonesbury established he was USN in an earlier comic (recently repeated August 03, 2021).

5. 3 months ago on Doonesbury

   i’m shocked Redfern’s still got some color in his hair. My red turned white by 45.

6. 4 months ago on Non Sequitur

   This joke was pretty forced. It didn’t quite have the momentum one would expect, in spite of how it seemed to come about as an impulse.

7. 4 months ago on Doonesbury

   To be honest, sometimes the best thing us men can do is just get the hell out of the way.

8. 5 months ago on FoxTrot Classics

   uh, the guys who manipulated GameStop’s stock seemed to have gotten away with it. A lot of ‘alleged’, a lot of promised investigations from Congress and several state AG’s (with little follow-through), and a few unresolved class action lawsuits (some already dismissed), and here we are.

9. 5 months ago on Doonesbury

   Supposedly a few of the lyrics in About Face, Momentary Lapse of Reason, and Division Bell were intended as snipes at Roger Waters. The Division Bell ones are more curious in that Gilmour didn’t write them.

10. 5 months ago on F Minus

    Peppermint Patty, some time in the 60s or 70s: “And One Good Ole Fashioned MAYBE!”