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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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[–] Rolando@lemmy.world 37 points 1 month ago (2 children)

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?)
[–] HessiaNerd@lemmy.world 17 points 1 month ago (2 children)

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

[–] Donkter@lemmy.world 19 points 1 month 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?

[–] m_f@midwest.social 8 points 1 month ago

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

[–] Skullgrid@lemmy.world 0 points 1 month ago (1 children)

porch climber

that's too close to porch monkey

[–] Rolando@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago

Those terms seem to be unrelated, see here: https://greensdictofslang.com/entry/hugtd2y