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a Johnny Hart cartoon
I remember time back way back when they were still playing baseball with a cubical ball. Someone (Peter?) hit a long fly ball to the outfield and the umpire (I'm pretty sure it was the fat broad) ran out to the ball, spread her arms out in a safe sign and said, "Six!"
There was some discussion of the strip on the editorial page in which a number of columnists for the paper (The Chicago Sun-Times, IIRC) nearly unanimously declared the strip funny but none could explain why it was funny.
Entire Thread Subject Posted By Posted Prescriptivists v. descriptivists. belMarduk 09/24/05 04:27 PM Re: hugs zmjezhd 09/24/05 05:14 PM Re: hugs Bingley 09/24/05 10:38 PM Re: hugs zmjezhd 09/24/05 10:53 PM Re: hugs belMarduk 09/24/05 11:57 PM Re: mugs zmjezhd 09/25/05 12:12 AM Re: mugs belMarduk 09/25/05 12:35 AM Re: mugs inselpeter 09/25/05 01:51 AM Oh, I dunno... AnnaStrophic 09/24/05 10:18 PM Re: Oh, I dunno... inselpeter 09/25/05 01:58 AM Re: Oh, I dunno... Faldage 09/25/05 08:35 AM Re: Oh, I dunno... inselpeter 09/25/05 10:25 AM two things to note about johnny Hart tsuwm 09/25/05 02:56 PM
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