Isn’t it obvious??? He personally calls each grocery store in the country, and tells them what to charge for each item. There’s also a big red knob beside his desk in the Oval Office, that’s directly connected to all the gas station price signs. Turn it to the right, the price goes up… turn it left, the price goes down.
Nope, he’s running scared. The detail is in the hyphen. “Man eating octopus” is in panel 3… literally a man eating an octopus. “Man-eating octopus” (with the “-” hyphen), switches the meaning around, to an octopus that eats man (or pigs). RUN AWAY!!!
To be, or not to be. Depends on where you live? Personally, I use “It needs to be washed”. Several years ago I read some article that had “needs washed”, and figured the editor just accidentally left out a couple of words, or meant “needs washing”. Saw it a few more times, went searching, and found it’s considered “normal” in some parts of the US.
Isn’t it obvious??? He personally calls each grocery store in the country, and tells them what to charge for each item. There’s also a big red knob beside his desk in the Oval Office, that’s directly connected to all the gas station price signs. Turn it to the right, the price goes up… turn it left, the price goes down.