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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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wait this is lore as hell... im so invested in everetts relation to alcohol

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[–] sinkingship@mander.xyz 12 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Now I'm intrigued. It is the waiter's carafe, isn't it? But if I'm right, what's wild about it? So I must be wrong?

[–] Rexelpitlum@discuss.tchncs.de 36 points 2 months ago (2 children)

It's a spittoon.

People used to chew tobacco and then occasionally spit into these.

So this would be filled with a brown soup of saliva with soaked tobacco remains distributed in it.

[–] Rubisco 17 points 2 months ago
[–] JackbyDev@programming.dev 1 points 2 months ago

My grandfather uses tin cans. He left one in my car once. Only once but holy fuck.