Woman 1: This boy got lice.
Woman 2: Bring his scalps over here. I will do an incantation to banish the lices.
Woman 2: AYPLEJ AHLEEJANZ TOODA FLAHG UVDAA YOONEYE TEYDSTAY TSAVA MERRAKA
Woman 2: ANTOODA REYPUH BLIK FOHRWITCHI STAN
Boy: You're doing the pledge of allegiance!
Woman 2: Don't interrupt me, child! We are mid-incantation. WONNAYSHUN UN DURGAHD
Womans 2: INDA VIZABUL WITLIBBERDEY ANNJUS TISFEROL
Boy: It's just the pledge! We say it every morning at school!
Woman 2: Of course you do. The school don't want no lices neither. Anything this world teaches you to recite or sing or parrot back is just for purposes of the mass delousing of crowds.
Woman 1: Then why does he got the lice, if he been saying this charms every day?
Woman 2: He must got the superlice that need the double-strength enchanterings.
Woman 2: OHHHOHH SAIHKAHNN EUUUCIEEE
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{{alt-text: Put your hand over your heart -- SO THAT THE WORDS MAY TRANSMUTE YOUR VERY BLOOD TO PARASITICIDE}}
Put your hand over your heart -- SO THAT THE WORDS MAY TRANSMUTE YOUR VERY BLOOD TO PARASITICIDE
The computers tell me it was 20 years ago, June 9, 2006, that I arrived in New York for my first-ever comic convention as an exhibitor, MoCCA.
It was an important trip for me, a milestone in what would go on to become my career.
I wrote a little reminiscence on Patreon (free/unlocked) — including a first-since-then reprint of the photocomics I made at the time, documenting the trip!
Read the rest here: [ 20 Years Ago (In Photocomic Form) ]
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