Overboard by Chip Dunham for August 28, 2009

The pen is mightier than the sword……. or the dog brush.

Good Friday Morning CREW!!

I love it when Chjp writes himself into the strip.

Morning Crew, been there done that.

LOL. I enjoy this strip over all, but this is the funniest one I’ve read in a while. I also love it when Chip writes himself in!

GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOD MORNING CREW! I’m off to be ‘trained’ for working the Toronto International Film Fest.

WoodEye you just repeated the EXACT same thing that wrecks said over in “Non Sequitur” … I mean, the exact same thing!!!

And yes, those winds suck sometimes … I live just about a 10 min walk from a City of Toronto garbage truck parking lot … on REALLY HOT days, that smell wafts for a LOT of kilometres LOL

Morning Crew!

♪♫…you don’t spit into the wind. You don’t pull the mask off the old Lone Ranger, and you don’t welch a bet with Chip..♪♫

This is great!!

Morning Crew!

Good Morning Crew!! So glad it’s Friday.

Even as he walks away, the dog hair stays with him!

Yo (ho ho), Crew.

Doesn’t Chip ever get seasick? Or at least a little queasy from the recursion? http://www.artchive.com/artchive/e/escher/escher_hands.jpg

Love it! Reminds me of trying to brush my dog outside. I was covered in more hair than she was.

And my Dad says the same thing,*DF*

Burgundy - I doubt I’ll see any. I’ll be in the theater, with a night vision monocular keeping Green Ship people from stealing the movies that aren’t released.

Allan, It’s a famous quote….

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

An illustration of Cardinal Richelieu holding a sword, by H. A. Ogden, 1892, from The Works of Edward Bulwer Lytton

“The pen is mightier than the sword” is a metonymic adage coined by English author Edward Bulwer-Lytton in 1839 for his play Richelieu; Or the Conspiracy.[1][2] The play was about Cardinal Richelieu, though in the author’s words “license with dates and details… has been, though not unsparingly, indulged.”[1] The Cardinal’s line in Act II, scene II, was more fully:[3]

True, This! — Beneath the rule of men entirely great, The pen is mightier than the sword. Behold The arch-enchanters wand! — itself a nothing! — But taking sorcery from the master-hand To paralyse the Cæsars, and to strike The loud earth breathless! — Take away the sword — States can be saved without it!

The play opened at London’s Covent Garden Theatre on 7 March 1839 with William Charles Macready in the lead role.[4] Macready believed its opening night success was “unequivocal”; Queen Victoria attended a performance on 14 March.[4]

Here’s the quote without the GoComics editing.

True, This! — Beneath the rule of men entirely great, The pen is mightier than the sword. Behold The arch-enchanters wand! — itself a nothing! — But taking sorcery from the master-hand To paralyse the Cæsars, and to strike The loud earth breathless! — Take away the sword — States can be saved without it!