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   I get the point(s).

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   Is the guy in a suit over at the left maybe the owner, Zeke? He has been neglecting maintaining his own rug! :-)

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   I see it tagged as a CIDU, but nobody seems to be bothering to explain it (because it seems so obvious?), and I don’t get the headline…
   So anyway, just in case, Bill, the porcupine skin at the end isn’t selling, it’s been marked down a number of times — I guess it isn’t “so soft!”

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   The “so soft” seemed as if it should be a punchline of some sort, hence the CIDU tag.

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   I don’t think “So soft!” is meant to be a punchline. It’s part of the setup for the porcupine rug and its many markdowns.

   Bill’s headline is a mystery to me.

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   I assumed that the headline was the reason Zeke is bald, here – he has his “rug” on sale.

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   I agree that the marked down porkupine rug is the joke.
   The sort-of pun on “rug” as toupee is probably intentional also, but a tangent. (Yes, that’s the aspect I happened to comment on earlier.)

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   Arthur, I doubt that any of those three came from Zeke’s head.

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   Of course we know what Zeke is selling…it’s spelled out on the windows.

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    I have never considered buying an “exotic” rug, but I would hope they take the head stuffing out.

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    Nope – traditionally, an animal-skin rug has a stuffed head on it, with taxidermied eyes and fangs. Tiger, bear, lion, etc – the same ones that get taxidermied roaring and looking ferocious as statue-type objects. Less often things like zebras.

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    I like how the customer checking out the zebra has taken off her shoes, to really get the feel of it.

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    I’m with Usual John. This is a headline IDU. I assume it’s a reference to some advertising slogan.

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    I wonder why it says “ZEKE’S” at all, since it’s superfluous, and just “Exotic Furs” would be enough and more effective.

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    This is Zeke: https://scrooge-mcduck.fandom.com/wiki/Zeke_Wolf

    Zeke was last seen running a bar in Stockholm, in Alexander Barks’ marvellous Donald Duck pastiche.
    Apparently he has put on weight, had a facejob and changed his trade, capitalizing on his old knowledge of trapping wildlife.

    https://www.aftonbladet.se/kultur/a/L0jnGR/arne-anka-har-en-kris
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arne_Anka

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