Brevity by Dan Thompson for March 20, 2013

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    Varnes  almost 11 years ago

    You know how there’s a liqueur called Goldschlager, that actually has gold flakes in it? Why not Copperschlager…….Silverschlager?

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    VictoryRider  almost 11 years ago

    All the toilets at a local police station have been stolen. Police say they have nothing to go on.

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    jazzmoose  almost 11 years ago

    You know, guys: there’s a reason Dan Thompson gets paid for this…

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    Bargrove  almost 11 years ago

    Then they had policeman cookies. Cop cakes.

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    Bargrove  almost 11 years ago

    Beveik: by that kleptomaniac from from Cleveland.

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    SusanSunshine Premium Member almost 11 years ago

    Dirty copper leads:

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    jack fairbanks  almost 11 years ago

    hey, about those budget cuts; is that really your office?

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    jreckard  almost 11 years ago

    I’ve got one lead in my pencil.

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    GROG Premium Member almost 11 years ago

    Put out an APB on Claude Cooper from Cleveland.

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    emptc12  almost 11 years ago

    I zinc you may be 97.5 percent wrong.

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    amaniac  almost 11 years ago

    Normally this strip has some type of humor I can enjoy, but having had a house we’re selling (but not living in) stripped of all the copper in the basement in early Feb, this strip kinda falls flat footed.

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    rockngolfer  almost 11 years ago

    From 1968 two minutes plushttp://highpoints.smugmug.com/FavoriteVideos/Entertainment-Videos/23668265_CBts8n/1915845676_TjbK89p#!i=1915845676&k=TjbK89p

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    konradh  almost 11 years ago

    Does “Copper thieves” here just means people that steal actual copper? Or is there another meaning/joke I am missing?

    Cops are so called because the original police in NY had copper badges.

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    GoodQuestion Premium Member almost 11 years ago

    Copper was a good show on BBC, wondered what had happened to it . . . ☻

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    missjunebug  almost 11 years ago

    VERY good, all you punsters……

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    hippogriff  almost 11 years ago

    Konrad: Or British report signature abreviation for Constable on Patrol. Or brass buttons on the uniform coat. Or a half dozen other hypotheses.

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    SusanSunshine Premium Member almost 11 years ago

    Konrad and Hippogriff..Both of those derivations are folk etymology.

    The word “copper” for a policeman predates shiny uniform buttons….. and was in use long before “cop,” so the acronym theory makes no sense.

    The most likely derivation is said to be from the verb “to cop”, which already meant “to take or grab” in the middle ages.

    By the 18th century, the bailiff or a sheriff who “copped” you was, therefore, a “copper”… later shortened to “cop.”

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    SusanSunshine Premium Member almost 11 years ago

    Bruno….. cos I thought someone might get a charge out of it.

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