670: Spell-checked Garfield

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Spell-checked Garfield

Made by: I. D. Asmith

Explanation

For this strip, the author didn't explain what was done, so one might be tempted to think that the original dialogue was fed as-is into the world's worst spell checker, but one would hope that the real answer is that the author retyped it from scratch, leaving in all errors and seeing what a spell checker suggests. This would be a preferable alternative to the existence of a spell checker that doesn't know some extremely common words, such as "there", "cat", and "feed".

The author writes:

Original strip from 1978-06-19.

Transcript

Jon: Hi, tire... I'm Jolt Truckle. I'm a canonist, and this is my cart, Afield.
Garfield: Hi, throe. I'm Gained. I'm a coat, and this is my cartelist, Joint.
Jon: Our only tooth is to entreat you.
Garfield: Fed me.