3355: The Checkers Speech
The Checkers Speech |
Made by: Manyhills |
Explanation[edit | edit source]
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If anything, Garfield's representation of draughts got even less accurate over this twelve-year span - the board is still too small and the pieces have still somehow ended up on different-coloured squares (!), but in the later strip the board isn't even square.
And for that matter, how can Jon do a double move that only results in the capture of one biscuit?
This whole web of lies is falling apart at the seams.
Er, do webs have seams?
Original strips: 1990-07-31, 2002-05-05.
Transcript[edit | edit source]
{Garfield is sitting on the other side of a four-by-four chequerboard to a ball of yarn}
Garfield: Your move
{Garfield is sitting on the other side of a five-by-six chequerboard to Jon, who is eating a biscuit with little regard for table manners}
Garfield: In "checkers with cookies", there are no losers
Jon {half-chewed crumbs tumbling revoltingly from his maw}: Yer moof