Stone Soup (7-8)
Antonio E. Gonzalez
otherwise he'd know her natural hair color!
2. This would explain why Holly's a blonde . . .:
Evan Kirshenbaum
> 1. Well, I guess this means Phil hasn't gotten *that* far with Val,
> otherwise he'd know her natural hair color!
Or she colors it to her natural color to hide the gray.
Or she makes sure that there's nothing elsewhere to compare it to.
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Mike Beede
Evan Kirshenbaum <kirsh...@hpl.hp.com> wrote:
> Antonio E. Gonzalez <AntE...@aol.com> writes:
>
> > 1. Well, I guess this means Phil hasn't gotten *that* far with Val,
> > otherwise he'd know her natural hair color!
>
> Or she colors it to her natural color to hide the gray.
>
> Or she makes sure that there's nothing elsewhere to compare it to.
But more importantly, in the last panel you can see that his
badge is distinctly eight-pointed. As near as I can tell from
an exhaustive single-page Google search, police badges in the
United States never have eight points. So the secret that's
revealed is that Phil is actually a British Firefighter!
Mike Beede
Rob Wynne
> 1. Well, I guess this means Phil hasn't gotten *that* far with Val,
> otherwise he'd know her natural hair color!
>
No, not really...
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Peter B. Steiger
> As near as I can tell from an exhaustive single-page Google search,
> police badges in the United States never have eight points.
Put the protractor down and step AWAY from the computer.
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Evan Kirshenbaum
> But more importantly, in the last panel you can see that his
> badge is distinctly eight-pointed. As near as I can tell from
> an exhaustive single-page Google search, police badges in the
> United States never have eight points.
Historically, they did, though. Here are eight-pointed badges from
New York, Patterson, NJ, and New Haven CT.
http://tinyurl.com/6zw86s
<URL:http://www.policeguide.com/Photo_Galleries/Badge_Gallery_/
New_York_PD__Badges/new_york_pd__badges.html>
> So the secret that's revealed is that Phil is actually a British
> Firefighter!
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Antonio E. Gonzalez
>Antonio E. Gonzalez <AntE...@aol.com> wrote:
>> 1. Well, I guess this means Phil hasn't gotten *that* far with Val,
>> otherwise he'd know her natural hair color!
>>
>
>No, not really...
Right, she might shave . . .
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Rob Wynne
> On Wed, 09 Jul 2008 14:45:51 GMT, Rob Wynne <d...@america.net> wrote:
>
>>Antonio E. Gonzalez <AntE...@aol.com> wrote:
>>> 1. Well, I guess this means Phil hasn't gotten *that* far with Val,
>>> otherwise he'd know her natural hair color!
>>>
>>
>>No, not really...
>
> Right, she might shave . . .
>
>
>
Mmmmhmmm.
You don't actually know any girls that way, do ya... ;)
Antonio E. Gonzalez
>Antonio E. Gonzalez <AntE...@aol.com> wrote:
>> On Wed, 09 Jul 2008 14:45:51 GMT, Rob Wynne <d...@america.net> wrote:
>>
>>>Antonio E. Gonzalez <AntE...@aol.com> wrote:
>>>> 1. Well, I guess this means Phil hasn't gotten *that* far with Val,
>>>> otherwise he'd know her natural hair color!
>>>>
>>>
>>>No, not really...
>>
>> Right, she might shave . . .
>>
>>
>>
>
>Mmmmhmmm.
>
>You don't actually know any girls that way, do ya... ;)
Admitedly, no . . . but I know "Brillo Pads"!:
<http://www.youdamnkid.com/d/20040318.html>
<http://www.youdamnkid.com/d/20040916.html>
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Jym Dyer
>> I can tell from an exhaustive single-page Google search,
>> police badges in the United States never have eight points.
> Historically, they did, though. Here are eight-pointed badges
> from New York, Patterson, NJ, and New Haven CT.
=v= We're veering into alt.nerd.obsessive territory here.
Better got some sort of ObComix thing going. Ooh! I know:
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