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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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You can't trick Everett True (October 30, 1915) (lemmy.world)

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Printed 109 years ago today in The Tacoma Times. Image cleaned up, see the original. (Lamentably, that page also has a racist caricature on it.)

Found on the Library of Congress site. Feel free to pick a cartoon and post it yourself!

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

Which part are you struggling with?

If it's the panel itself, it seems to be a Chinese person with a queue braid operating a telephone switchboard. It seems to be connected to the line below where they provide some fortune-cookie wisdom in broken english about pessimism. I could be wrong, but I think the only funny there is racism.

If it's the story below about the couple in the park, I think where it reads "- punch" might be to indicate that was the punchline, the joke is rather dry so it's telling the reader that "yes, this was a joke." The joke there is that the man is on a date with a woman, but is more preoccupied with looking like a good citizen to a veteran / recruiter

[–] odium 5 points 4 weeks ago

It was the panel itself that I was confused about. Thanks for the explanation.