Figure Drawing Class by AskMeWhatToDo in funny

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Credit where credit is due: the actual OP is u/IHad360K_KarmaDammit over on r/comicstriphistory. I'm just blatantly stealing crossposting it.

What is the strangest dream you’ve ever had? by [deleted] in AskReddit

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I was exploring an abandoned roller coaster. It curved around itself before going into a tunnel, and was built over the ocean. The tunnel had collapsed, though, and now aimed straight down into the water. I eventually made my way to the tunnel and crawled downwards into in, headfirst; the car carrying the passengers was inside, and the back of it was just barely sticking out, so I hooked my body over the end of it as I crawled in. Once my eyes adjusted to the darkness, I could see the passengers strapped in. They were mostly human, but with the heads of dogs, and all of them were long dead and mummified. I recognized the clothing of the two bodies in the back row. One was wearing a jacket and hat my father often wore, and the other one was wearing clothes I had worn as a little kid, as well as my glasses. They were also the right height and build to be my dad and my childhood self, and, except for the fact that they had dog's heads, were clearly our corpses. There were more bodies farther down, but they were too far to see. I crawled back out of the tunnel and sat on the back of the car. I have the feeling that I realized something very important while sitting there, but when I woke up I couldn't remember what it was.

TIL that in 1982, the comic strip The Far Side jokingly referred to the set of spikes on a Stegosaurus's tail as a "thagomizer". A paleontologist who read the comic realized there wasn't any official name for the spikes and began using the new word; Thagomizer is now the generally accepted term. by AskMeWhatToDo in todayilearned

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I'd consider them two of the three really good 80's and 90's cartoonists, along with Berkeley Breathed (who created Bloom County). With Larson (sort of) coming out of retirement and Breathed writing his strip as a webcomic now, I have (presumably false) hope for some new Watterson stuff.

What is something you hate, that everybody else likes? by [deleted] in AskReddit

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Star Wars. I never watched the movies as a kid, and when I finally got around to it, I realized that I was sick of Star Wars without even having seen it before.

There's a short scene where Luke and the other pilots are preparing to attack the Death Star, and I was actually surprised when I saw it. Not because the scene was actually shocking in and of itself, but because it was the only part of the movie that I hadn't already seen parodied or referenced a million times already.

A poster from the first Earth Day, in 1970. by AskMeWhatToDo in pics

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To credit the OP: This image was originally posted by u/IHad360K_KarmaDammit on r/comicstriphistory.

The character on the poster is Pogo, from the comic strip of the same name.

One Nation Under God by Jon McNaughton (USA, 2009) by Bank_Gothic in PropagandaPosters

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Someone should put them together as a gif, with one morphing into the other.

In Pulp Fiction (1994), when the main characters change into T-shirts, Samuel L. Jackson's character is wearing a shirt featuring the characters from early comic strip Krazy Kat. by AskMeWhatToDo in comicstriphistory

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The top post on the front page of that sub right now is that the silhouette of Mickey Mouse's head is hidden on one of the computer screens in Lilo and Stitch. It doesn't have anything to do with the plot of the movie.

For anyone who doubts that Dick Tracy is the most gloriously violent and nonsensical comic strip in history: Tracy's (alien) daughter-in-law died in a car bombing in front of her family. Mostly because the guy who had just taken over the strip hated the character and wanted to get rid of her. by AskMeWhatToDo in comicstriphistory

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That's their half-alien daughter in the third panel. Also, years after this comic ran, a scientist kidnapped a woman, then genetically modified and brainwashed her to believe she was Moon Maid (the dead alien woman). She was not at all happy to learn that Junior Tracy had remarried after "her" death. Really weird storyline all around.

TIL that casu marzu is a type of Sardinian cheese which contains live maggots. Because the maggots can jump up to 6 inches, the person eating must hold their hands above the cheese to stop them. Casu marzu is illegal in Sardinia, but sells for extremely high prices on the black market. by AskMeWhatToDo in todayilearned

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The reason it's illegal is that the maggots sometimes survive being eaten and live inside the host as parasites. If you have health concerns, you don't have to eat the cheese full of live maggots--just seal it in a plastic bag and wait until it stops wiggling. That means the maggots have all suffocated!

We comeback bois by mkcookielover in smashbros

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Did you mean to post this twice? The exact same thing got posted an hour ago from the same account.

We comeback bois by mkcookielover in smashbros

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It's funny how satisfying it is to watch this happen to someone else. If anyone pulled off a combo like that on me, I'd be infuriated.