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Frazz by Jef Mallett for April 28, 2012
April 27, 2012
April 29, 2012
Transcript:
Boy: Did you know Isaac Newton once stuck a bodkin behind his eyeball just to see what was back there. Girl: Eww. Boy: I'm just saying that puts the peanut-up-my-nose scandal into perspective. Girl: Eww.
Varnes almost 13 years ago
Not as bad as Bean-In-The-Eargate……
Arianne almost 13 years ago
Odd!
brick10 almost 13 years ago
bodkin – a small, pointed instrument for making holes in cloth, leather, etc
EWW and GAKKK!
V-Beast almost 13 years ago
thats what cadavers are for.
Kerovan almost 13 years ago
Fairportfan2 has it right. The original bodkin was commonly used in assassinations. The term “Odds Bodkin” derives from that since the left, or odd, hand was commonly used. The reason being it was less watched and thus a little more likely to be unnoticed.
3hourtour Premium Member almost 13 years ago
…eww…
hippogriff almost 13 years ago
Also a narrow tool used to adjust hand-set type. I may be old, but I can still set type from a California case.
Yukoneric almost 13 years ago
Sounds like the time I operated on myself in an attempt to remove a piece of graphite that’s been in my arm since age 5 when my brother stabbed me with a pencil. I used my biology lab dissecting kit. FAILED. That piece is still in my arm after 60 years………… My roommates came in from bball practice, took one look and left the room!
Goblinopolis almost 13 years ago
When he himself might his Quietus makeWith a bare Bodkin?
aardvark86au about 8 years ago
I’d never heard this one before http://www.lib.cam.ac.uk/exhibitions/Footprints_of_the_Lion/private_scholar.html , but by all that’s holy, it shows that genius is different from common sense.