http://wondermark.com/the-comic-strip-doctor-momma/ An Illustrated Jocularity. Fri, 23 Dec 2011 22:46:04 +0000 hourly 1 http://wondermark.com/the-comic-strip-doctor-momma/comment-page-1/#comment-639 Grrg Tue, 02 Dec 2008 05:15:30 +0000 http://wondermark.org/?p=1839#comment-639 Didn't the original (pre-blog) version of this essay have an addendum wherein The Comic Strip Doctor realized the joke WAS, in fact, about those poorly-drawn clogs, which are meant to indicate a rueful acceptance on Momma's part that the gentleman caller will insist on "going Dutch"? Like... wooden shoes? From the Netherlands? And they'll split the bill? It's a bungled and unfunny joke, but at least it IS a joke... Didn’t the original (pre-blog) version of this essay have an addendum wherein The Comic Strip Doctor realized the joke WAS, in fact, about those poorly-drawn clogs, which are meant to indicate a rueful acceptance on Momma’s part that the gentleman caller will insist on “going Dutch”? Like… wooden shoes? From the Netherlands? And they’ll split the bill? It’s a bungled and unfunny joke, but at least it IS a joke…

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