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[–] diabetic_porcupine@lemmy.world 1 points 11 hours ago
[–] village604@adultswim.fan 77 points 3 days ago (5 children)

Time mixed cream cough for a berry filled drop.

[–] doug@lemmy.today 22 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

Yeah I should’ve hyphenated cream-filled to maybe break up that consistent gap.

I would literally doodle these on a notepad, take a photo with my phone, jack up the contrast, then put the text in using my handwriting as a font; all in ~10 minutes with barely any QA. I’ve been meaning to remake/re-draw them, but I know myself and the more work I put into it the less I’d enjoy it.

[–] village604@adultswim.fan 1 points 1 day ago

It's totally not a big deal. I think it actually adds something to the comic.

[–] Nurse_Robot@lemmy.world 12 points 3 days ago

I'm glad I wasn't the only one

[–] Burninator05@lemmy.world 12 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Time mixed cream cough for a berry filled drop.

[–] mschae@discuss.mschae23.de 5 points 3 days ago* (last edited 4 hours ago) (1 children)

Time mixed cream cough for a berry, filled drop.

[–] WalrusDragonOnABike@reddthat.com 7 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Time mixed cream cough for a berry filled drop. ,

[–] X@piefed.world 3 points 2 days ago

Time mixed cream cough for a berry filled drop.

[–] Catoblepas@piefed.blahaj.zone 8 points 2 days ago (1 children)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/River_(typography)

At least for me the river between the words made me initially read it that way, too

[–] GlenRambo@jlai.lu 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)
[–] Catoblepas@piefed.blahaj.zone 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

On Piefed (and I think lemmy?) it doesn’t display the link properly if I don’t have that extra \ (it’s there to cancel out the final parenthesis, so that the markdown knows it’s part of the link)

[–] sandro@piefed.social 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Not sure if it is correctly rendered by all clients, but you can try wrapping the links in < and >.

<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/River_(typography)>

... becomes

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/River_(typography)

It is referred to as autolinks in the CommonMark specification.

[–] Catoblepas@piefed.blahaj.zone 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Thanks for the info! Your example does display correctly on Piefed 👍

[–] thermal_shock@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

Don't dead open inside

[–] clay_pidgin@sh.itjust.works 4 points 2 days ago

I do love a Ricola. I can't think of many strongly herbaceous foods in the U.S.

[–] HollowNaught@lemmy.world 11 points 2 days ago

Don't dead open inside

[–] ninjabard@lemmy.world 15 points 2 days ago (1 children)

The spacing and my lack of glasses had me read it as "The mixed cream cough, for a berry filled drop."

[–] Sasquatch@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 days ago

Reverse (transposed) "Don't Dead Open Inside"

[–] aeronmelon@lemmy.world 12 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Latchkey kids growing up in the 1980s:

“Want some candy?”

“Sure”

tosses them a Vics

“…What is this?”

“Cherry.”

[–] NotSteve_@piefed.ca 3 points 2 days ago

I grew up in the early 2000s and I remember kids my age passing around Vics like candy and even then I never understood it. I understand it even less now as an adult

[–] victorz@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago

I knew I wouldn't be disappointed by these comments.

[–] SatansMaggotyCumFart@piefed.world 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

This is me with the morphine based cough medicines.

[–] doug@lemmy.today 3 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

Given my lack of self control with sugar and sodium, I’d probably OD on propofol if I had unchecked access to it. I can sleep for eight hours without any noisy neighbor or birds waking me up? What’s the catch?? Except the OD part of course.

[–] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago

The other catch is constipation

[–] Ephera@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Yeah, I specifically buy cough drops that don't taste overly good for that reason now...

[–] bridgeenjoyer@gamepad.club 1 points 2 days ago

@Ephera @doug wait they aren't candy? Woops

[–] rizzothesmall@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Don't Open
Dean Inside