Brevity by Dan Thompson for November 29, 2019

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    mddshubby2005  almost 5 years ago

    “There’s a hell of a difference between wise-cracking and wit. Wit has truth in it; wise-cracking is simply calisthenics with words.” Dorothy Parker

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    i_am_the_jam  almost 5 years ago

    I take it there’s a pun in here somewhere…

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    SusanSunshine Premium Member almost 5 years ago

    You also have to know that “Frosh” is slang for “Freshman”, or first year student, plural or singular, on American college campuses…. sometimes in high schools, too….

    But …um…. using that word was already considered kind of quaint and dorky, even in my college days….

    before the parents of today’s college “frosh” were born.

     

    Using it kinda goes with loving stuff like “Frosh Spirit” rallies, and buying waaay overpriced backpacks from the student bookstore with the school mascot on them…

    Not that there’s anything wrong with that.

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    dan Premium Member almost 5 years ago

    A comic with intelligence. Thank you!

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    David Bethke Premium Member almost 5 years ago

    So… Ms. Parker isn’t supposed to be anyone in particular? The art style is just different enough to make me wonder.

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    Lee26 Premium Member almost 5 years ago

    I enjoyed my freshman year in college. It was a great 4 years.

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    cuzinron47  almost 5 years ago

    That’s probably Detention Hall.

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    tghllama  almost 5 years ago

    My freshman dorm (way back when) was (James) Hall Hall — the dorm so good they named it twice.

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    Fenshaw  almost 5 years ago

    Mine was Young Hall.

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    gopher gofer  almost 5 years ago

    this is not a comic strip to be tossed aside lightly – it should be thrown with great force

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    billsplut  almost 5 years ago

    “Wit has truth in it; wise-cracking is simply calisthenics with words.”She said it! Brevity has become puns so arch and lame Crankshaft wouldn’t do them.

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