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1947 ad: Peter Pain Returns for Thanksgiving! |
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Not only is mother here, but so is mother’s mother. She seems to have contracted some form of mild, genial idiocy upon regarding Henry’s fat, slack naked torso. Why she shows up to watch her child smear unguent on a man’s back is beyond me; perhaps she lives with them, and wanders around the house all day with the same fixed expression of vacant, happy idiocy. Oh, wait, now I get it. The “Mother” in the previous panel was not the wife’s name for herself. She literally meant Mother. Interesting: Ben-Gay was willing to admit that people shouldn’t be expected to have any around, and bind the brand to old people.
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Henry, who has previously never admitted the existence of Peter Pain, is so linger now he manages to kick Double-P in the head without even looking. While carving. Peter notes that this is often his lot; he gets “the part that went over the fence last.” That would be the hindquarters. Of a turkey. That runs the hurdles, or is bridled for a steeplechase run.
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