• flamingo_pinyata@sopuli.xyz
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    3 months ago

    Leave home to buy some spices, then go to a wrong grocery store and make a mess there breaking everything on the shelves

  • Asafum@feddit.nl
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    3 months ago

    “Listen, I’m white. Columbus is associated with settlers and colonialism which the left unfairly demonized so poor Columbus got cancelled! Because I’m white I feel personally attacked because fox news says I should be so I’m celebrating out of spite even though I don’t really even know what I’m celebrating! Make America Genocide Again!”

    -Some Magoos subconscious probably

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      3 months ago

      Oh they definitely complain that people don’t celebrate Columbus Day anymore like they never did anyway.

  • rickyrigatoni@lemm.ee
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    3 months ago

    I used to observe columbus day by having the day off school. Now it’s meaningless to me like every other “holiday” I have to work through and get pissed off because I drove all the way to the bank to get change and they’re closed.

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    Hundreds of years from now people will claim that only you knew that your route to the spice store existed while in reality everyone knew that it was too long.

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      3 months ago

      “Oh, you’re back. Did you bring back the cinnamon and nutmeg?”

      “They were definitely out of those spices, but look at all of these severed hands!”

  • M1nds3nd@lemmy.ca
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    3 months ago

    Columbus Day could also be celebrated by breaking into someone’s house and forcing them to find and bring you money. If they don’t bring enough start killing their family.

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      3 months ago

      Completely off-topic: That cartoonist is continuing a tradition that goes all the way back to George Herriman near the beginning of the 20th century. He had an incredible strip called Krazy Kat, but it started out like the Tom Waits sub-strip there, under a strip he ended up abandoning.

      I’m betting the cartoonist here knew about that and is continuing the tradition, which is pretty cool.

      • Klear@sh.itjust.works
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        3 months ago

        The strip is a tribute to Tony Millionare, which is also where the sub-strip comes from.

        Dresden Codak used to be a wonderful webcomic with great surreal humour and some super funky layouts. Then over a decade ago the author started a long, boring and confusing storyline which is apparently still ongoing? Crazy.

        Anyway, mostly everything under “One-Offs” in the archive is solid gold and highly recommended. The rest of it… don’t bother.