Yeah, wonder if they’re confusing it with something else. Here’s more info for anyone unaware:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demon_core

The demon core was a sphere of plutonium–gallium alloy that was involved in two fatal radiation accidents when scientists tested it as a fissile core of an early atomic bomb. It was manufactured in 1945 by the Manhattan Project, the U.S. nuclear weapon development effort during World War II.

It’s weird that they made it look like the Demon core, but not behave like it.

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The Los Angeles Times, which carries The Far Side, has taken umbrage with my cartoon on several occasions. (Apparently, someone there actually reads the comics beforehand.) These three, as I recall, created some conflicts with the “good taste” standards of that paper, and I believe all three were deleted from their comic page back in the early eighties.

The first two I suppose are subjective, although I don’t remember other papers censoring them. Their rejection of the elephant cartoon, however, had me baffled. I’ve always found it appalling that the demand for ivory has caused these magnificent animals to be continuously poached—but the ultimate act of contempt for the rights of wildlife has got to be represented by the elephant’s foot wastebasket. And that’s the point I was striving for in this cartoon—not that I was hoping to make a profound comment of any sort (the cartoon is really pretty inane, I think), but just who wouldn’t be upset to find out something like this had been done to a former part of their anatomy?

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Yeah, I think those senses are where we got the one above from. Wiktionary has these two before that one:

A labourer on an oil rig or in the oilpatch, either skilled or semiskilled.

A dirty or low-paid worker, a labourer; an ironworker in an ironworks or a steelworker in a steelworks

Not much tbh, mostly responding to account applications and reports. There’s probably a few per day combined, max. It’s just good to have redundancy to increase the odds that they can be handled relatively quickly.

Not used much anymore, but common back in the 50’s:

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/roughneck

From rough +‎ neck, originally “someone who works a manual labour job”.

Someone with rough manners; a rowdy or uncouth person.

Charlie Brown is happy because someone thinks he’s not a kid anymore

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My publisher’s gift and stationery division decided one day they wanted to make this and a few other Far Side cartoons into posters. The problem was this one particular cartoon featured nothing but penguins and ice, which didn’t lend itself to color.

When the finished posters show up, I was interested to see they had indeed found a use for color in this cartoon―they made the one penguin (who’s singing “I Gotta Be Me”) yellow―the others remained in black and white.

In other words, the entire point of the cartoon had been reversed. In the original version, I was being cynical about the futility of trying to be unique in a sea of commonality. But by making just the singing penguin yellow, the publisher made him stand out, and the cartoon then made the same point the song originally intended.

At least that’s what I feared. I was really worried someone might actually think I was being sensitive for a moment. That would make me sick.

Is that a military uniform that the person on the left is wearing? If so, was that common to wear for the Olympics back then?

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I don’t yet have anything set up, but would like to get a donation platform set up and it would then be much appreciated 🙂

I think I’d be upset too if I missed out on that for an accordion number and radio was all you had

Looks like there was lots of variation, and hut become more popular after WWII, but not to the exclusion of other options:

https://www.visualthesaurus.com/cm/wordroutes/hut-the-story-behind-a-football-interjection/

As hut (and “atten-hut”) became popularized in World War II, the military bark got taken up by drillmasters for marching bands, drum corps, and pep squads. For instance, a 1941 guide to marching band drills reads, “Some substitute ‘Hup!’ or ‘Hut!’ for ‘one,’ to gain accent.”

I’m going to guess no. Here’s a link to the show on the Adelaide Fringe website, no mention of streams:

https://adelaidefringe.com.au/fringetix/only-god-can-judge-me-af2026

Here’s also a mention of it on their Patreon:

https://www.patreon.com/posts/adelaide-fringe-150616164

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Originally, the title I intended for this cartoon was, simply, “Predator/prey relationships.” But when I finished the drawing, something about the way the wolf was looking back over his shoulder evoked a need in me to probe their relationship a little deeper.

The easy answer is Signal, which is good enough for non-tech people to use without much issue. It’s not decentralized, but other than it just works.

Thought this was interesting, but also has a great URL: amorous_radioactive_hybrid_terror_pig_mums

I’m not sure where the coloring comes from exactly. I pull the comics from here, but it’s not directly stated how they did the coloring:

https://www.gocomics.com/peanuts-begins

This is the about page:

In celebration of the 65th anniversary of “Peanuts,” we restarted the iconic comic strip from the very beginning. Follow along as we stroll down memory lane with Charlie Brown, Snoopy, Lucy, Linus, and the whole gang as they retrace the adventures that began in newspaper funny pages in 1950. Those were the days!

This historic comic is presented in its original form, unedited from the time period in which it was created. These images may contain harmful stereotypes, problematic and antiquated ideologies, or otherwise negative cultural depictions and themes indicative of the context in which it first appeared. We run these vintage comic strips to preserve a digital archive of the medium’s early examples.

Interesting to see that Google Translate is using an LLM under the hood. Not surprising, given how good they are are language tasks, but kind of surprising that it’s not officially acknowledged anywhere.