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A couple of meta takes on this comic trope. The first one is from Will:









And Nancy benefits from this double-bluff strategy by … what?





From timharrod, who asks : It looks on the surface like everyone’s missing an item, and the reason turns out to be that Wallace built a raft out of them, but it’s still opaque: why would a kid building a sand castle be looking for a rope? Why the lifeguard? Is Wallace actually on a raft or is that Mom’s hypothesis?
These are just whatever was at least pretty good, was dated today, and was in some way about the Labor Day holiday or tradition. … A quick survey of which cartoons were willing to be about the holiday and which preferred to go on their own way.



















On the Internet, nobody knows…
Chemgal contributes this matched pair:





Nice to see that they can keep coming up with good new variations!

And another one for official Frankenstein Day:

And one directly addressing the occasion:


This from Chemgal, spotting an OY not in the comic overall but in a particular panel.

That’s right, it’s in what Chemgal calls “the third last panel”. I was going to have a fine old time on how different people, not to mention different nations, have different ways of counting from the back of a series, so the only safe way to label a “third from the end” or “second one from the last” or “position negative 3” is to adopt the technical-looking but easy-enough and safely unambiguous ANTEPENULTIMATE.
Oh but then! — but then I took a closer look, and I think the drawing is misleading, and actually the last panel includes both Adam’s speech balloon “Seriously .. all that?” as well as Katy’s and Clayton’s jibes. So the one with the cute shark tray pun is “second last” … or do you say “next to last”? Or “second back from the end”? Or “first before the last one”? Let’s go with PENULTIMATE!


“We prefer the British spelling diarrhoea as it shows a loss of control of your vowels.”

