If there was one trivia subject I could choose in a game of like, "get all these right to save your life"
I would choose the old popeye thimble theater comics
and it is shameful what i would choose this over, frankly. it's the one thing I *know* I know more than anything else on this earth
But it's been like 5 or 6 years so I should get another read through just in case. Gotta brush up on how many times popeye refers to himself as a lonely cowboy or what year the carbon monoxide ghost arc is
@heatherhorns exactly how many instances of the word "the" are printed in the full run of comics
counting multiple copies of the same issue
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@heatherhorns i just made this up as something that would be utterly ridiculous for a trivia quiz to ask
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@Felthry I know! I'm no longer a person that would want to spend months trying to figure out how to answer that, but i once sincerely would have
like, okay how many printings, what are the variations to account for, what counts as an issue, does it necessarily need to be published, etc
@Felthry yeah see when i was 19, i would desperately want you to ask me that. so (metaphorically) horny to be challenged to research a thing i was proud to constantly reiterate knowledge of