What’s that thing on the right? Is it supposed to be a mannequin?

The king just loves talking to… EARTH TRASH! He sets aside an hour each day for it.

Olive Oyl? My high school chemistry/life science teacher did me wrong!

Me neither. I read a couple of descriptions of striped cuckoos. None mentioned this tidbit and that made me suspicious.

On the other hand, I did find this: https://www.thenakedscientists.com/articles/science-news/cuckoo-chicks-earn-their-keep

It includes a picture of a nest with a cuckoo chick and, although it doesn’t look like a pine cone, you can easily make out the speckled feathers. Also, the article is interesting in asserting that the cuckoos’ parasitism isn’t all bad.

So many problems with this!

Um, actually, I’ve done my own research on this and this was technically a self-portrait.

How long before before the instructor is able to put a trick question on the test (i.e., “Both”) because The Pokemon Company has started licensing names to pharmaceutical companies?

I can’t help with the Roman version, but it sounds familiar to the take I heard on the Myths and Legends Podcast (if I’m remembering it right): Medusa becomes beautiful, Poseidon rapes her, Athena blames Medusa for getting raped and makes her hideous. I don’t remember if Athena tops it off by compelling Perseus to murder Medusa, but she at least gives him the shield and the instructions on how to do it.

https://www.mythpodcast.com/12752/80a-medusa-golden-child/

Edit: I think I was actually meaning to respond to Xeroxcool.

Yep, I’m afraid Gladaed is right; definitely different pictures. When she posed for the sketches, she did something different with her arms each time. She sometimes changed her expression too. Oh, and one day she wore a shorter shirt.

No, the two Rs were already revealed. Foxy?

But it’s an airport: the only reason anyone is there is to leave.

This kinda of weirdness is why I’m subscribed. Fantastic.

What a terrible font on the pail. I zoomed in to read it, but still didn’t realize that it said “graft” until I read your description/comment. I thought it said craft, which made no sense.

Oh, true. And it being a gym also supports the “ass” angle.

They didn’t say “a piece of,” just “a piece.” Since we’re talking about slang and since “a piece” is slang for “a gun,” we’re forced to conclude that the advertisement is for a gun shop.

Close. That /is/ Antman in the cannon, but it was technically a crossover in a Fantastic 4 comic: F4 #16, Jul. 1963, according to my note. As for context, I don’t remember exactly what was going on but I had clipped three panels:

Whomever you can? You’d rather have an aneurysm than talk to either of us? I knew I wasn’t your favourite, but…

I find myself hoping the artist was behind and so repurposed a picture of Reed Richards by drawing a pair of horns on the head, sketching some underwear on the outside, and painting it all red.

According to Green’s Dictionary of Slang, it can mean many things. In this case, I’m betting on:

pipe, v.(3) 1.  to look over, to inspect. 2. orig. of a detective, to follow, to pursue; to spy on. 3. to understand, to work out. [with US examples 1882-1962]

I believe so. According to Green’s Dictionary of Slang, it usually referred to an obese person (or group thereof), but being used to mean “beefy” doesn’t seem too far removed.

beef trust (n.) [ironic use of SE beef trust, a conglomerate of beef producers/processors; orig. late 19C carnival use, created by showman W.B. ‘Billy’ Watson (born Isaac Levy; 1852–1945), who thus named his sideshow of grotesquely overweight women, the term was later adopted in his burlesque to describe a chorus-line of notably large girls; Watson also created the chicken trust, composed thin and reportedly beautiful women]

1. (Aus./US) an obese person, a group of obese people [with examples dated 1914-2002]