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Millie seems to be attacking the world of prepackaged phrases.

Personally, I never shake a stick at anything in groups larger than twenty. Just to be on the safe side.

"To hold the universe in a grain of sand, infinity in an hour."

Also, heh, I suppose the ocean could be considered a puddle - a very, very large one that would be difficult to run though, but still, a puddle.

"No single raindrop believes it is to blame for the flood"



"Tho."

Ozy... how could you?

Also... ummm... is she sure she's shaking the stick at it and not flailing it?

LOL! That strip was one of the funniest of the more recent strips posted

"Tho."

Ozy... how could you?

I was thinking the same thing but it's probably because 'though' doesn't fit

"Tho."

Ozy... how could you?

I was thinking the same thing but it's probably because 'though' doesn't fit

Yeah, he would have had to write in size four type or something.


I'm really liking this series!

Pretty sure the "nice ____ tho" is a Bloom County homage.

Can't recall exactly which strip, tho.

You couldn't possibly shake a stick at every single grain of sand, can you?

MEGA LOL

I'm very glad Ozy said "tho." I'm all for the acceptance of that spelling, which is half as long, does not get confused with "through" and similar words, and skips the awful "ugh."

That one rich guy, y'know Carnegie, wanted to reform the english language so it was more phoeneticized so "though" would be "tho" for example. But all the english professors laughed in his rich iron magnate face and told him that would be dumbing down the language. At which point he used his money to establish public libraries.

"Through" and "though" are some of the oddest spellings in the English language. They take four letters to make one sound, and half of them aren't even vowels! Eddie Izzard did a joke about it... he was like "T-H-R-U"... "Hey let's add an O in there" "Huh? Oh, all right" "And a G" "Wait, what?" "And an H" "OK now this is just ridiculous!"

They make sense if you look at where they came from. Compare the English spellings to the German ones:

through - durch
though - doch

You see the gh - ch pairs? That gh was originally pronounced as it was spelled, like a soft 'k' or 'g' sound, same as it still is in German.

I'm bilingual and never noticed that before. You learn new things all the time I guess.

Pretty sure the "nice ____ tho" is a Bloom County homage.

Can't recall exactly which strip, tho.

Actually, that's exactly right. Well spotted.