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BARNEY: …so then I says, “No, I want PLAID pants!
“You know what plaid is? You know what PLAID is?
“It’s PLAID!”

BARNEY: The secretary-general just LOOKED at me. You know that guy’s got eyes could MELT a STEAM-SHOVEL.
“Barney,” he say, “Times are tough. You think everyone don’t want plaid pants? But we got to RATION them trousers, Barney.
“Some of us…we got to SACRIFICE.”
Then, in the middle of the crowded hall, I KID you not…
–took off his grandaddy’s very own plaid pants. Handed ’em RIGHT over to me.
“Fer YOU,” he says, “and fer the UNION.”

BARNEY: Class act, that one. CLASS A-PLUS ACT all the way to the bay.
FRED: Barney, I asked where you wanted to have LUNCH.
BARNEY: I’M GETTING TO THAT

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#459; In which Pants have a Pedigree transcribed by in

BARNEY: ...so then I says, "No, I want PLAID pants!
"You know what plaid is? You know what PLAID is?
"It's PLAID!"

BARNEY: The secretary-general just LOOKED at me. You know that guy's got eyes could MELT a STEAM-SHOVEL.
"Barney," he say, "Times are tough. You think everyone don't want plaid pants? But we got to RATION them trousers, Barney.
"Some of us...we got to SACRIFICE."
Then, in the middle of the crowded hall, I KID you not...
--took off his grandaddy's very own plaid pants. Handed 'em RIGHT over to me.
"Fer YOU," he says, "and fer the UNION."

BARNEY: Class act, that one. CLASS A-PLUS ACT all the way to the bay.
FRED: Barney, I asked where you wanted to have LUNCH.
BARNEY: I'M GETTING TO THAT

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{{alt-text: you do not have to explain how you were shot out of a cannon over occupied france in order to give me your opinion on sandwiches}}

you do not have to explain how you were shot out of a cannon over occupied france in order to give me your opinion on sandwiches

#459; In which Pants have a Pedigree

  — November 7th, 2008

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20 years ago (in photocomic form)

June 9, 2026 by David Malki !
A young David Malki !, Steve Carey, and Ryan North, June 2006.

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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