"The Cliff-Hanger", episode 2

Mon Mar 17 14:17:05 UTC 2014

Saturday the storyteller left me hanging by posing the question, and
concluding with the lines

"What will happen NEXT?"
"Oh, that'sh sho EASHY!".

Today Gina struggles to answer the question ("What caused the word to
be invented in the first place?"), and episode 2 ends with:

"Is that DOUBT I see?"
"I don't think she knows!"
"Oh, for heaven'sh shake! *I* know!"

Cartoonist Lincoln Peirce is playing mind games with me.  How long,
oh Lord, how long will I have to wait??
http://www.gocomics.com/bignate/2014/03/15#.UycCXs5N2z5

Joel

At 3/16/2014 02:43 PM, Joel S. Berson wrote:
>My inability to prove that the origin of "cliff-hanger" lies in "The
>Perils of Pauline" will be resolved, I believe, on Monday March 17,
>when Gina answers the next question in the "Fact Town Smackdown",
>namely "What is the origin of the word 'cliffhanger'?"
>
>See "Big Nate" for Saturday March 15, at
>http://www.gocomics.com/bignate/2014/03/15#.UyXvd85N2z4
>
>(Somebody's been watching ADS-L.)

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