5601: Pedanticfield

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Pedanticfield
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Made by: Manyhills


Explanation[edit | edit source]

In the original strip, Jon said "poisonous" instead of "venomous" or "vemonous". In common parlance, people often use "poisonous" both for things that make you sick or kill you because you ingested some part of them and for things that make you sick or kill you by injecting venom into you via biting or stinging. Technically, only the former is truly poisonous; the latter is properly termed "venomous". The author's note links to a Natural History Museum article on the subject. It also links to a comic in which a spider bites its tongue and dies; it is claimed that either "poisonous" or "venomous" could be correct, depending on whether the spider died from the bite or by ingesting the poison in its tongue.

The author writes:[edit | edit source]

See here. The 2003-10-15 strip works either way.

Original strip: 2008-04-22.

Transcript[edit | edit source]

{Jon is running around in a frenzy, staring at his finger}
Jon: Something bit me!
Jon: What if it's venomous?!
Jon: I could die!
Garfield {exasperatedly}: When?!

Trivia[edit | edit source]

The third line of the transcript does not match the second panel of the strip proper; the strip proper uses "vemonous" where the transcript uses "venomous".