@[email protected] is going back to school and can’t post any more!
E-Tru wants YOU to keep this community alive! Pick a cartoon from one of the following sources and make a post:
- https://www.barnaclepress.com/comic/Outbursts of Everett True/
- https://d.lib.msu.edu/gnn/1562
- https://xcancel.com/john34766308
Do your part… OR ELSE–
Apparently
- squarehead is an “Extremely Disparaging and Offensive” term for a German/Dutch/Scandinavian person
- porch climber is a term for a thief (bc you climb up the porch to sneak in the window?)
My family always used blockhead (still do sometimes). My grandfather was Norwegian.
I mean, they say “blockhead” in Peanuts. It can’t be ludicrously insulting right? Or was Lucy essentially using the hard-R right in front of our eyes?
I wonder if that’s where this character got his name from. He’s from around the same time period
porch climber
that’s too close to porch monkey
Those terms seem to be unrelated, see here: https://greensdictofslang.com/entry/hugtd2y
5 dogs for that price, that’s $1.25, which was close to the average daily wage for an unskilled laborer. He took a larger proportion of that wage home than he would today, but that still seems expensive for outdoor mystery meat on a scrap of stale bread. Remember how we went down the rabbit hole about Upton Sinclair and the canned “boneless chicken”? Good times. EDIT: fixin my punctuation.
Do you also beat up street vendors when the food is too expensive? Can’t wait to see everyone in this comment section in jail soon. That’ll at least be a net + for society.
Ignore this dude. His account is a month old and 90% of his comments are negative.
If not a troll, what a miserable person.
It’s amazing how twisted you “people” are. Keep on beating up street vendors for fun I guess, it’ll be temporary, me laughing at the news as each and every one of you end up in jail will last a very long time.
Ah yes. Because violence is always the answer you mongoloid.
Oh nevermind, you and your special ed buddies are part of a very special club from the evidence seen below. The one for those whose elevators don’t quite reach the top floor.
Wouldn’t surprise me if all of these were your equally idiotic alts.
Apparently a hotdog was definitively a sandwich in 1907. Unless a frankfurter was something else
Nope, the frankfurter sausage is the immediate precursor to the American “hot dog,” and it’s entirely likely that what was being sold by this huckster was the latter.
A hot dog has never not been a sandwich.
Going from 1 cent to 25 isn’t inflation, it’s outright a scam.
Mrs True was wearing a $2000 (in 1906 dollars) coat the other day, but a quarter for a hot dog is too rich for his blood?
Everett knows the value of a dollar, and the value of a street sausage.
I don’t know the answer, I thought Mrs. True had an economical coat and the $2000 coat belonged to another character. But I DO know that I love your user name.
So hotdogs are 300x more expensive these days? Sheesh. Fuckin sheesh! And this price was considered excessive at the time.
That’s like a $9-$10 hotdog today. Yea, I’d be pissed if a hot dog stand charged that much.
Hate these comics. In half of them he creates the problem by using violence. You’re all lunatics for enjoying this psychopathic content, but then again the majority of Lemmy is American and you love your American Psychos or Bates Motel role models so who am I to judge (hint, not a psychopath, pretty low bar)
You sure sound like a psychopath.
Coming from someone who beats people up for… “checks notes”… not liking someone’s prices.
Clearly you shouldn’t even have internet access. Where’s your straight jacket?
Hey, I ain’t American and enjoy True ! It’s an exaggerated expression of the exasperating moment we’ve all felt. True isn’t always right either since he reflect the views of his era. Lastly but not least, you can’t tell me you’ve never wanted to beat the shit out of animal abusers, scammers, bullies, people talking loudly on the phone/ blaring music loudly, throwing their trash/used needles on the street?
I don’t “want to beat the shit out of” anyone. Meanwhile the downvotes tell a different story about people in this sub, that’s for sure.
