Everett True Comics

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A place to appreciate the twentieth century comic character Everett True of "The Outbursts of Everett True." Feel free to check out the sticky.

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E. True's cure for inflation (August 26, 1907) (lemmy.world)

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 3 months ago (2 children)

My family always used blockhead (still do sometimes). My grandfather was Norwegian.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 3 months ago (1 children)

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?

[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 months ago

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 months ago

I wonder if that's where this character got his name from. He's from around the same time period