Shoe Size
Well, Shoe, you're right about that. More often than not, you and your bird friends are part of the problem, but I'll give you the points on this one.
Of course, it's possible that he's being literal. The comics actually ARE smaller than they used to be. Hence, for instance, the cutting of the first 2-3 panels in most Sunday strips (in the paper at least). From wikipedia:
"Early daily strips were large, often running the entire width of the newspaper, and were sometimes three or more inches in height. At first, one newspaper page only included one daily strip, usually either at the top or the bottom of the page. By the 1920s, many newspapers had a comics page on which many strips were collected. Over the years, the size of daily strips became smaller and smaller, until by 2000 four standard daily strips could fit in the area once occupied by a single daily strip."
And that's your comic strip history lesson for the day. Thank you, Shoe.
posted by big al at 9:20 PM
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Here is your film history lesson for today:
What the heck Shoe is doing playing off of Billy Wilder's film "Sunset Boulevard" is hard to say, but this is a play off the famed response by Norma Desmond (played by Gloria Swanson) in that movie:
"You used to be in silent pictures. You used to be big."
"I am big. It's the pictures that got small."
And don't forget: "All right, Mr. DeMille, I'm ready for my close-up."
Although that has nothing to do with Shoe. Too bad.
Shoe hasn't been the same since Jeff died. I wish they had retired this strip before it became a vehicle for bad jokes. I hope Jeff's family is getting some good money.
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