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Non Sequitur - When "ponderous" was "The Good Old Days" (Original Post)
JHB
Jun 2022
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LetMyPeopleVote
(145,542 posts)1. Great cartoon
Martin68
(22,869 posts)2. Excellent!
Lil Liberal Laura
(228 posts)3. Old Greek Curse:
"May you live in interesting times!"
Hekate
(90,788 posts)4. Chinese curse -- but here we are anyway
wnylib
(21,603 posts)5. I've heard that credited to Irish and various other groups.
I suspect that it originated as some individual's wry, gallows humor joke somewhere unidentifiable and spread out from wherever it was.
Hekate
(90,788 posts)6. Kicktoons & thanks. Wiley has been righteously on this
planetc
(7,833 posts)7. Splendid toon.