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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did anybody watch the new deadpool movie yet

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[–] Warl0k3@lemmy.world 31 points 2 months ago (3 children)

What is "grip"?

[–] SGforce@lemmy.ca 37 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Cough or a cold

[–] m_f@midwest.social 22 points 2 months ago

And here's what Wiktionary says:

Archaic spelling of grippe (“influenza”).

[–] d00ery@lemmy.world 17 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

I agree with that from the context.

However at least this one article suggests

Grip, gripe or grippe: flu

(though of course the meaning of words can change many times)

[–] clark@midwest.social 8 points 2 months ago

Maybe he's talking about his literal grip he uses to beat people up

[–] stoly@lemmy.world 7 points 2 months ago (1 children)

In Spanish, flu or cold is called “gripa”. Didn’t realize it was used in English previously.

[–] Ultraviolet@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago

Gripe also originally meant sickness before it had its modern meaning of complaint.