I Don’t Think This is True

rogersgeorge on August 2nd, 2021

But I’m not going to bother to look it up. Seems to me that we didn’t use punctuation back then.

Rubes Comic Strip for July 14, 2021 — https://www.gocomics.com/rubes/2021/07/

I think most of our punctuation appeared in the middle ages.

By the way, don’t forget to pronounce that second “s.” It’s aster riSk, not aster rick.

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