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   Johanan Rakkav said, almost 4 years ago

   They can storm castles but not defeat the Huns?
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   TheSnoopster said, almost 4 years ago

   Great work, men! I’ll take the Starbursts!
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   Llewellenbruce said, almost 4 years ago

   There’s probably needles in the candy.
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   Jenna Rose said, almost 4 years ago

   Hopefully they got some peanut butter cups.
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   PoorPig said, almost 4 years ago

   I was hoping for a Trojan horse pinata.
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   BigChiefDesoto said, almost 4 years ago

   @Johanan Rakkav

   It’s a trick they learned from Hagar the Horrible.
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   Sportymonk said, almost 4 years ago

   I’ll take the green Starbursts
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   Alexikakos said, almost 4 years ago

   Hagar is a female name. From the Hebrew by way of Arabic.
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   How it ended up being given to a male comic strip viking is something you’d have to ask the late Dik Browne (via seance) or his son Chris.
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   Eirik Hanssen said, almost 4 years ago

   Not to speak on behalf of the Brownes, but …

   Names can coincide. For instance, we have the female name Kim, from Kimberly, the male name Kim, from Joakim, and the notorious Korean family name Kim.

   Nor is it unheard of for Norse names to coincide with Hebrew names. Famously, David may also have been a Norse name, from Dagvid. (Evidence is suggestive, but not conclusive.)

   And spelling was not standardized (hah!), particularly as many of the Norse names were taken down by others. Eirik Blodøks (Bloodaxe), an early king of Norway, was later twice king of the Northumbria, and the Danes took his name down as Eric.

   The name of Hägar might well be Hergeir in a different spelling.

   (Possibly even more to the point, there’s a 16th century farm in Norway called Hægar, but I have no idea how its name is derived. Could be a red herring.)
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    GROG! said, almost 4 years ago

    Big deal. Where are the peanut butter cups?
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    Knightman said, almost 4 years ago

    Rodney the Great scores again! And yeah GROG! where ARE the peanut butter cups?
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    Jungfrau said, almost 4 years ago

    What’s happened to the Milk Duds???
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    potrerokid1532 said, almost 4 years ago

    @Alexikakos

    The “a” has two dots over it, giving it a different sound ( ie: “eh”, instead of “ah” ). And, it COULD be an ancient Scandinavian name, too. Maybe you can explain why, in modern Greek, the letter “gamma” is often pronounced like a “Y”!!!!!
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    Rickapolis said, almost 4 years ago

    Snickers. I want the Snickers.
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    Nun'Ya Bidness said, almost 4 years ago

    Hopefully they left me some licorice!
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