After becoming convinced that Brooke Mac-El-Dee himself is listening to this podcast, we take a deep dive into his poor history with the ellipsis (and other punctuation). You see, in one strip, he makes a point of "educating" everyone about the use of an ellipsis. According to The Master, it is only used to indicated omitted words. And that is not only not true, it is also not how he has EVER used the ellipsis in his own work. In fact, we're not sure he has used it that way even once. So we go back through the strips we've already discussed and actually count the periods. (So many periods.) We also talk about a handful of strips where he "has fun" with punctuation with "hilarious" results. All in all, a fitting way to end the year.
The Chickweed strips we discuss this episode:
You can find all of the strips either on Twitter by clicking here (https://x.com/9chickweedRAGE/status/1740402215402283477?s=20), or on Instagram by clicking here (https://www.instagram.com/p/C1Zx41jrT4n/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&igsh=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==).
This ..... episode includes:
Sneezing
Diet Cokes
Christmas
Back trouble
riding a Segway
spot-eyed cats
semi-colon misuse
Ross & Rachel
Sam & Diane
Katniss & Peeta
motorboating
Eddie Izzard talks about Englebert Humperdinck (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yjaRR4ofudA)
Underwood Farms
Goat habitrail
Goat poop
Welcome Back, Kotter
Peanuts
Comma splice
Kilroy Was Here
Tiger Beat
Leif Garrett
Shaun Cassidy
William Frawley's pants (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jtmC2I8K6mo)
Mowgli from The Jungle Book
The Dark Crystal
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