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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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I mean I get the point, but honestly I feel like if I was carrying such a large baby I'd seriously appreciate the counterbalance.

I don't think I've seen Everett look so defeated.

[โ€“] ArbitraryValue@sh.itjust.works 7 points 3 days ago (3 children)

That typo surprises me - I associate it with trying to type on a cell phone.

[โ€“] Lumidaub@feddit.org 28 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

A gazillion years ago my teacher at uni wrote this on the blackboard (might've been a whiteboard, don't remember):

Paris in the
the spring

He then proceeded to ask random people to read it out loud. This went on for several minutes, while I was in the back row listening to all these people repeating "Paris in the spring" and losing my mind thinking I was hallucinating the second "the".

Conclusion: not a new thing at all, humans have always been clumsy fools, thank you for coming to my TED talk.

Edit: I just realised I messed up the formatting on the crucial part of this post. See above: clumsy fool

[โ€“] ArbitraryValue@sh.itjust.works 8 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

It has always been easy to miss seeing the repeated word, but it's not easy to accidentally write a repeated word by hand. I only do it (as far as I know) when I'm typing with auto-complete. (And I'm not even sure why auto-complete has that problem.)

[โ€“] Lumidaub@feddit.org 5 points 2 days ago

Just a matter of being distracted for a second ("will pounce on.... What? Uhuh? [...on on on...] Yeah, cool, bye. What was I writing? Oh yeah: '... on you....'". And then you proofread and miss the repeated word.

[โ€“] Sergio@lemmy.world 18 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

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I support this motion.

[โ€“] baggins@lemmy.ca 8 points 3 days ago (1 children)
[โ€“] Ardyssian@sh.itjust.works 10 points 3 days ago (1 children)
[โ€“] baggins@lemmy.ca 3 points 2 days ago

Wow I read it like 3 times

[โ€“] MBM@lemmings.world 1 points 2 days ago

Is a lady pouncing on your like a tigress a good or a bad thing? I guess for a dedicated family man like Mr. True both options are bad.

[โ€“] klemptor@startrek.website 1 points 2 days ago

Everett needs to mind his own damn business.