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They should put Everett on the plate with his umbrella. Bet he'd knock it out of the park.

Yeah, the best of these comics are an amusingly excessive reaction to a relatable annoyance. I find this reaction amusing in a slapstick kind of way, but the annoyance somewhat unrelatable: is it really that big a deal not to have an outdoor faucet? What if the landlord legitimately can't afford it? (maybe he has bills because of family illness or something.)

I think Everett's saying that he has to run a hose from indoors every time he needs water outdoors. An outdoor faucet might be a luxury these days (and I'm no fan of modern lawns), but back when more people had horses and even small livestock like chickens, and when people were growing victory gardens for the Great War, an outdoor faucet seems like less of a luxury. Also, to people reading in 1918, I think the landlord's reaction is supposed to stand in for all the things that unscrupulous landlords did before city codes and inspections started being put in place - note that the landlord seems well-dressed and at-ease, so I think readers back then would see him as a stock character. So another thing I like about these comics is that they force me to try to think of what life was like back in those days.

Compare to excavation of the Atari video game burial:

Remnants of E.T. and other Atari games were discovered in the early hours of the excavation, as reported by Microsoft's Larry Hryb.[48][49] A team of archaeologists was present to examine and document the Atari material unearthed by excavation machinery... Only about 1300 cartridges of the estimated 700,000 were removed from the burial, as the remaining materials were deeper than expected, which made them more difficult to access, according to Alamogordo mayor Susie Galea.[51] The cartridges found were from 59 different games, the majority of which were for the Atari 2600; six were Atari 5200 titles. Atari hardware was also excavated.[52] The burial was refilled following this event.

I think that expression is saying "wtf are you doing in my house taking my picture?"

This is like the Wizards of the Coast OGL fuckery, but worse.

It looks like LaTeX. Academics are familiar with it.

Don't forget to feast and get buzzed.

Feelz bad for Rich Webster whose life is on a downward spiral.

The cross pattée has many heraldic uses, but this is more like an "x marks the spot" like on a treasure map.

Check out the movie "The Man Who Knew Infinity" for a dramatization.

Unbelievably, the rescued woman was left with just minor scratches and bruises, NSW Ambulance said.

She did not, however, manage to retrieve her phone.

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