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Things Millie considers cursed or unlucky:

1: Reality

2: Unreality.

Yeah, heh, Ozy better write that list.

Panel three wins cuteness again!

*edit*

Band-aids... fur...

Yup, Band-Aids and fur do not go well together....

Seems to me like you'd have to cut away all the fur around the cut for a band-aid to be useful at all anyway, but still, the sheer randomness of her list is amusing. She doesn't even start with black cats or walking under ladders or cracked mirrors. No, it's grapefruit. XD

I consider grapefruit to be cursed. Because of the medications I take, I could DIE DIE DIE if I eat grapefruit. Seriously!

LOL @ randomness!

Yeah, bandaids and grapefruit in the same list... sounds like a game of "Apples To Apples" I recently played.

This strip reminded me of the list of randomness I created with a friend in English class.

Band-aids are cursed. Consider: Band-aids were invented by this guy with a clumsy wife. She was always cutting herself while cooking and he got tired of bandaging her up. So he created some bandages that you could put on yourself by applying some gauze bandage to some adhesive tape.

Sadly, she became indignant at the insinuation that she was a clumsy ditz and put a voodoo curse on him.

Band-aids is a product name. The proper term is adhesive strips.

The proper proper name is adhesive medical strips.

Band-aids is a product name. The proper term is adhesive strips.

Maybe so, but no one says "adhesive strips." At least no one I know.

Band-Aid is one of those product names that's become part of the language, synonymous with its product. Like Xerox, or Kleenex, or Photoshop.

This plagues writers, whose publishers' legal people tend to insist on product names not being used, even when it's what a normal person would say. I think this sucks, and as a small-time indie cartoonist, I can do what I want. It's one of the perks.

I say plasters. And photocopier, tissue, and image editor.

best panel three in a while...


"Yup, Band-Aids and fur do not go well together...."

i always got the impression that most of the time she would be to dirty for band-aids to stick in the first place

Band-Aid is one of those product names that's become part of the language, synonymous with its product. Like Xerox, or Kleenex, or Photoshop.

This plagues writers, whose publishers' legal people tend to insist on product names not being used, even when it's what a normal person would say. I think this sucks, and as a small-time indie cartoonist, I can do what I want. It's one of the perks.

Syndicated cartoonists don't get in trouble for it either, as long as they follow certain parameters. Scott Adams got a little flack for writing "Velcro" without putting it in quotation marks.

I say plasters. And photocopier, tissue, and image editor.

And what do you call Dumpsters (tm)?

I say plasters. And photocopier, tissue, and image editor.

And what do you call Dumpsters (tm)?

Oversized commercial waste receptacles.