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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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Everett True's Outburst of Love (Sept 20, 1922) (lemmy.world)

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Printed 102 years ago today in the East Oregonian.

Found on the Library of Congress site.

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

I think the joke is:

in panel 2, he thinks the teacher will be an "oldmaid who doesn't know much about children"
however, in panel 3 he sees she's not an "oldmaid", and in fact seems to know a lot about children.

That's why in panel 4 he wants to "teach" his kid something - presumably to respect his teacher? I'm not clear on why his wife tells him to calm down.

[–] Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Yeah, if it was just him walking in the door, with "I'll teach him a lesson!" that would at least be the punchline, but her line just takes the edge off of the impact of his line, and makes me think there's new, more interesting information about to come, but nope, that's it.

Everett knows how it's done, but the Duffs haven't figured out the science of comedy yet.

Thanks for joining me in this century old comic critique! 😂