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A place to appreciate the twentieth century comic character Everett True of "The Outbursts of Everett True." Feel free to check out the sticky.

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Everett True learns a lesson (October 9, 1913) (lemmy.world)

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Printed 111 years ago today in The Tacoma Times. I modified the brightness/contrast, removed artifacts, and cleaned up the text a bit, see the original.

Found on the Library of Congress site.

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[–] samus12345@lemmy.world 7 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Everett doesn’t hit his wife or his kids, as far as I’ve seen. This is good because it would be “crossing the line” and no longer comedic.

"One of these days, Alice. Bang! Zoom! Straight to the moon!"

"Wow, I never realized the first astronauts were so fat!"

"That's not an astronaut, it's a TV comedian. And