5086: Grafield in Haiku

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Grafield in Haiku
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Made by: Reisen U. Inaba


Explanation[edit | edit source]

The author writes:[edit | edit source]

Mixing the memes together is fun!

Preview of next episode: Linus Garfield Linus.

[Ed note: I mentioned that I couldn't make this scan according to the traditional 5-7-5 syllable pattern of Anglophone haiku; Reisen U. Inaba explained that unlike me but like most Americans they pronounce "our" as two syllables, /ˈˈaʊ(ə)r/, but were kind enough to supply this alternate version for the dialectally challenged:]

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Grafield: Hello, I'm a cat Garfield: Your name? Grafield: Grafield Garfield: Wait right here Garfield: Call our lawyer here

Original strip: 2008-04-21.

Transcript[edit | edit source]

Grafield: Hello, I'm a cat
Garfield: Your name?
Grafield: Grafield
Garfield: Wait right here
Garfield: Call our lawyer

Trivia[edit | edit source]

The author made note of the title "Linus Garfield Linus" as a future idea mashing-up Square Root of Minus Garfield running gags. A strip by that title already existed as iToons #54 from more than seven years earlier.