Poisonous/Venomous Again

rogersgeorge on August 8th, 2020

I posted about the difference between these two words a while back (look up either word in the search box) but since someone mentioned it again, I figured I’d post again. Besides, who reads this blog often enough that they’d see it twice?

Wizard of Id Comic Strip for June 10, 2020 — https://www.gocomics.com/wizardofid/2020/06/10

Venomous means it bites you; poisonous means you bite it. Don’t do either.

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