B.C. Comic Strip, January 16, 2013 on GoComics.com

In the late 1850s and early 1860s civility was whined about. “Civility” was a distraction from what people were being uncivil about. Slavery was not a thing to be civil about. Nor is the modern equivalent of slavery for votes.

Alexikakos said, 4 months ago

To keep the rythym, the third line shoud read:
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I’ll hear your side, though rest assured,

Bret Maverick said, 4 months ago

Boy, do I miss Johnny Hart.

win said, 4 months ago

Civility sure works well at the UN, no?

Bruno Zeigerts said, 4 months ago

May we charge your position?
Certainly, may I fire my cannon at you?
The CIVIL War.

phelpsgates said, 4 months ago

@Alexikakos

Good point! I’d be willing to bet that word got lost between the art work and the lettering shop and nobody bothered to proofread.

gmartin997 said, 4 months ago

That’s like saying, everybody’s crazy but you and me; and sometimes I worry about you.

gmartin997 said, 4 months ago

@Bruno Zeigerts

Yank: What are you fighting?
Reb: ‘Cause y’all’re down here.
That’s really what was said.

iangoodson said, 4 months ago

@Alexikakos

That’s not the point he’s making, but you’re right about the metre. He’s not asking the other side to be assured. He’s stating that he is already sure. It’s an old-fashioned usage of assured. It could read, ‘Though I’m assured’ but that would suggest someone else was assuring him.. Perhaps, ‘Although I’m sure’. Anyway, it does need the extra syllable.

iangoodson said, 4 months ago

@Nabuquduriuzhur

The same thing happens today. It’s called being politically incorrect and reclassifying objections as hate speech or – on the right – by suggesting that debate about rights somehow violates those rights. It’s about shutting an argument down rather than engaging it. The real problem are those people who refuse to recognise when an argument has been won or lost. They just carry on until the other side gives up and they ‘win’. Now that’s uncivil!

caller49 said, 4 months ago

To wax philosophical, is there such a thing as a reasonable person these days?

love of above said, 4 months ago

alright, i’ll cut my own artful crap and remind everyone of what you forgot from school.

yes, adding the word rest would keep the rhythm but it was a deliberate omission, meant to be noticed

for the “monstrous” lapse in the smooth flow will always remind us

that he’s saying point blank it’s your sanity in doubt and he’d be false

to then give you that smooth rhythm because whether sane or not in his opinion

you probably wouldn’t feel very restful knowing he considers himself the civil solution

and has evidence therefore confidence to pass over the “possibility” that you could be so as well

Whatroughbeast said, 4 months ago

A civil war is two groups fighting for control of the government. The conflict of 1861 – 1865 was not that, therefore the United States has never had a civil war.

Don’t get me started about the British Revolution fought on American soil.
:=)