Phoebe and Her Unicorn by Dana Simpson for August 25, 2024

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    Averagemoe  3 months ago

    Which moon? We’ve counted 293 in our solar system alone.

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    codycab  3 months ago

    Cows also give us milk, Marigold. Your move!

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    mccollunsky  3 months ago

    Sadly, not made of cheese either.

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    iggyman  3 months ago

    You’re missing the cat with a fiddle, Marigold, and where is the laughing dog, and the runaway dinnerware?!

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    iggyman  3 months ago

    “Cow” a bunga, Marigold!

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    prairiedogdance Premium Member 3 months ago

    Didn’t Marigold once take Phoebe to the moon? Or am I thinking of some other magical pal comic?

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    prrdh  3 months ago

    Actually, that story got garbled. The cow went up to the top of the ski ramp and flashed its butt: it mooned over the jump, not the other way around.

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    HarpGirl  3 months ago

    Except for “She sells seashells by the seashore.” It’s about my girl Mary Anning (1799-1847) who hunted and sold fossils (often shells) along the Jurassic Coast in Dorset, England. She discovered the first complete skeleton of a Plesiosaurus in 1823. She was awesome!

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    Anon4242  3 months ago

    Got to jump over the moon when it’s on the horizon and the jumper is on a hill top. And the observer is slightly down the hill and can see the moon appear to be under the jumper.

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    BiggerNate91  3 months ago

    Don’t tell that to Vitruvius.

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    Billy Yank  3 months ago

    J. R. R. Tolkien wrote a poem that explains how the cow jumped over the moon. The Man in the Moon came down to the local inn, got drunk and fell asleep. The other patrons had to load him back into the moon while the Cat with its fiddle played Hey Diddle Diddle, a jig that would wake the dead. The cow got so excited by all the noise that she jumped over the moon as the horses of the moon got started back home, just as the sun came up.

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    Stephen Gilberg  3 months ago

    Most of my weekly poems are about facts. Here’s a recent example:

    While carrots can bolster the health of your eyes

    With a big dose of vitamin A,

    They won’t make your vision work better than normal:

    You can’t see by night as by day.

    So how was the rumor blown out of proportion?

    It flourished in World War II,

    When ministers claimed British pilots ate carrots

    So night raids were easy to do.

    Of course, this was mere propaganda; they meant

    To divert any German tactician.

    We’re not sure it worked, but the public was fooled

    Into buying the whole superstition.

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