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Garfield: MERORRR.

kaching!

Garfield: EROWRR.

splat!

Garfield: ROWERROWER.

*clop!

Jon: Have you considered putting an end to your late-night caterwauling, Garfield?

Garfield: What? And give up show business?!

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Garfield: Cats are not only cute and fuzzy... We also make keen alarm clocks. At no extra charge.

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Jon: Cats are great to sleep with on chilly nights.

scratch scratch scratch

Jon: If you can put up with some of their eccentricities.

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Jon: I'll get you out, Garfield.

CLUNK!

Jon: Gee, is there anything I can do for you?

Garfield: Notify your next of kin.

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Jon: What are you doing up there, Garfield?

Garfield: Come a little closer and ask that again.

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flip flip flip flip

Jon: Are you playing with the blinds again, Garfield?

Garfield: I could just scream.

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Garfield: Boy, am I in a bad mood.

STOMP! STOMP! STOMP!

Garfield: Thanks, Odie.

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Garfield: Hmmm, Jon's golf cap

Garfield: No one drives faster than the great Enzio Bodoni

Garfield: Alms for a tap dancing cat

Garfield: Check that oil, mister?

Garfield: Quack quack quack

Jon: Sometimes I worry about you, Garfield

Garfield: Ha ha ha ha

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Lyman: Some game huh, Jon

Jon: Yup

Lyman: I would have been a college football player had it not been for my religion

Jon: Oh really?

Lyman: My church doesn't believe in bleeding on Saturday

Jon: I'll make you bleed

Trivia:

Last regular strip prior to syndication, and the last overall to use the header.

Readapted for the September 23, 1978 strip in syndication several months later:

Confused about what this strip is? See the first post here

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Jon: Thanks for a lovely evening, Liz.

KISS

Garfield: You lucky dog. I rarely kiss on the first date.

Permanent URL: https://mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=4397

Strip by: bc56

{A graph indicating the number of Nermals [Y axis] in each year [X axis] of existence of SRoMG, showing a rise to a peak of 8 in all of years 3, 4 and 5, and more inconsistent frequencies since then}

The author writes:

I came up with the pun and was surprised no one had used it yet*. I counted the number of strips Nermal appears in per completed year of SRoMG, starting on the 15th November of each year.

The most interesting finding, I think, is that the large number of Nermals in years 3 through 5 corresponds to a certain meme that was making the rounds at the time.

[*It makes a subtle appearance in strip #361. -Ed]

Transcript:

SFX: BAROOM

SFX: SCREEEE

Lyman: Four-ply, steel-belted radial retread tenny pumps!

SFX: ZOOOOM

Trivia:

Remake of the February 21, 1974 edition of Gnorm Gnat:

Remade again for the November 3, 1978 syndicated version of the strip:

Confused about what this strip is? See the first post here

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Jon: HA HA HA, WHEEE! When was the last time you had so much fun, Garfield?

Garfield: I think it was the time I got the hairball stuck in my throat.

Permanent URL: https://mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=4365

Strip by: Valleanenowe

Garfield: I shall now translate whatever Odie says

Odie: Bark bark bark

Garfield: The wealth of those societies in which the capitalist mode of production prevails, presents itself as "an immense accumulation of commodities," its unit being a single commodity. Our investigation must therefore begin with the analysis of a commodity. A commodity is, in the first place, an object outside us, a thing that by its properties satisfies human wants of some sort or another. The nature of such wants, whether, for instance, they spring from the stomach or from fancy, makes no difference. Neither are we here concerned to know how the object satisfies these wants, whether directly as means of subsistence, or indirectly as means of production. Every useful thing, as iron, paper, &c., may be looked at from the two points of view of quality and quantity. It is an assemblage of many properties, and may therefore be of use in various ways. To discover the various uses of things is the work of history. So also is the establishment of socially-recognized standards of measure for the quantities of these useful objects. The diversity of these measures has its origin partly in the diverse nature of the objects to be measured, partly in convention. The utility of a thing makes it a use value. But this utility is not a thing of air. Being limited by the physical properties of the commodity, it has no existence apart from that commodity. A commodity, such as iron, corn, or a diamond, is therefore, so far as it is a material thing, a use value, something useful. This property of a commodity is independent of the amount of labour required to appropriate its useful qualities. When

The author writes:

Original strip: 2020-02-19.

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Jon: My, you look nice today Irma

Irma: Are you kidding?

Irma: When I come to work, I wear base and lipstick and that's it hon. I don't put on eyes unless I have a hot date… you know what I mean?

Irma: I didn't even shave my legs

Jon: I don't want to hear about it Irma

Confused about what this strip is? See the first post here