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Today’s Zits, in which Jeremy commits a portmanteau:

Several of the strips I follow regularly are given to portmanteaus — Rhymes With Orange and Bizarro, in particular — but that’s not usually Zits‘s territory. Here, Jeremy intends messay as a smog-type portmanteau (something that is both X and Y), while his mother interprets it as a telescoping portmanteau (as messy essay).

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