[pfflier]

It was only a matter of time that history and morality would be learned through comic books. After all we get “news” through yahoo.

[hanamizu]

It was only a matter of time that history and morality would be learned through comic books.

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Do many actually buy/read comic books anymore? When I was a lad, you could buy them just about anywhere for a dime or twelve cents and they had say 25 pages. (When I was really young the standard was 52 pages). Now aren’t they kind of a niche item?

[SES1066]

After all we [they] get “news” through yahoo.

I wonder how many people know the derivation of 'Yahoo'? In the 4th book of "Gulliver's Travels" [Jonathan Swift 1726], Yahoos are human-form brutes with filthy habits, entranced by 'shiny things', while being servants to a race of intelligent horses, the Houyhnhnms. When Gulliver is cast upon the shores of their country, he is considered a Yahoo by the Houyhnhnms and grows to hate the association!

I find that people who use Yahoo for their news to be much in common with these dull brutes from Swift's satirical classic!