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April Fools in the Comics...
« on: April 01, 2005, 12:57:46 PM »
Check out a comics page today.  The Chron carries Foxtrot, Get Fuzzy and Pearls Before Swine, all of which feature the exact same joke (very slightly altered, in each case).  Pretty cool.  I'm wondering if other strips were in on the joke, but aren't carried by the Chronicle.
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Re: April Fools in the Comics...
« Reply #1 on: April 01, 2005, 05:20:13 PM »
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Check out a comics page today.  The Chron carries Foxtrot, Get Fuzzy and Pearls Before Swine, all of which feature the exact same joke (very slightly altered, in each case).  Pretty cool.  I'm wondering if other strips were in on the joke, but aren't carried by the Chronicle.
Yeah, it was weird.  I read the first one, then thought 'what a coincidence they're both talking about Ouija boards today' then as I read on, I saw it was the exact same joke.  It took me a little longer to see the 3rd one down at the bottom.

As if I don't waste enough time, I checked out all the comics on yahoo:

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/umedia/cx_getfuzzy_umedia/latest

and didn't see any others.
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« Reply #2 on: April 04, 2005, 10:36:47 PM »
did anyone else notice?
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April Fools in the Comics...
« Reply #3 on: April 05, 2005, 08:58:21 AM »
I checked it out after you guys alerted me to it.  I regularly read Foxtrot, but that was the firt time I read the other two strips.
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