TJDestry: The gun involved was both a tool and a weapon. Its innocence and danger depend on your point of view and the mind behind thte hand holding it.
Very funny, but most of us non-Latino geezers know that vamoose/vamos just means “go”. “Let’s go” is vamanos, hence the joke about the pretty visitor to Mexio who complains that these flirty men won’t leave her alone even when she shouts, “Vamanos” at them.
“We LIE dormant”, dammit! Wait a minute;I’m correcting a talking spider’s grammar? Six years, an MA, and four teaching credentials for THIS? Fuggedabahtit!!
PIOLEMIC DRIVEL! Only dtroutma and Baslim contribute anything. (Actually, everything by George MacDonald Fraser is entertaining, and generaly historically correct.) And don’t forget McArthur’s warning about land wars in Asia.
I wish they would show the original publication date of the strips.