Barney & Clyde by Gene Weingarten; Dan Weingarten & David Clark for July 02, 2011

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    alviebird  over 13 years ago

    Better known as sodium pentothal.

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    chaosandcake  over 13 years ago

    …Which would have read better in that last panel, really. “Pentothal” is easily hastened through to counter its excess of syllables during intentionally stilted speech, much like the three disyllabic (and single trisyllabic) words used above. Whereas it is far more natural to split “thiopental” into two chunks (Thio. Pental.) as it is comprised of two trochees. Pentothal does not lend itself to this so easily, as it has its own independent rhythm as a dactyl. As a result there’s sort of an instinctual stumble on “thiopental” as a single chunk where there wouldn’t be on “pentothol” or with thiopental if it were to break the pattern and be represented as two sentences.But I digress.

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    chaosandcake  over 13 years ago

    ^ Pretty much what he said.

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    lewisbower  over 13 years ago

    You can’t handle the truth

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    doverdan  over 13 years ago

    Is the word in song or poetry?

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