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#143565 08/28/05 11:39 AM
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I think 'eager' is the word that you're looking for, zeronix. It also m ight be worth pointing out that, per the OED, the meaning for 'anxious' that O'man was railing against has been in use since the mid 18th century.


#143566 08/28/05 12:33 PM
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...when I try to refresh my memory I get today's strip, not the aforementioned Jun 3 '05. And the archive, alas, retains only one month. :-(


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The original strip had Obvious Man as a guest on a call-in show responding to a caller who said that he had been anxious to talk with Obvious Man. O'Man stepped outside his role and ignored the obvious facts that language changes and that definitions of words are not carved in stone.


#143568 08/28/05 03:08 PM
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Fong... I'd thought the (obvious part of the) humor was that the normaly calm, cool and collected obvious man ripped the caller a new *one... fulfilling *his anxious destiny...


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