Three cartoons for today: a Pearls Before Swine on insults; a Mother Goose and Grimm meta-cartoon; and a One Big Happy on tongue twisters;
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(#2)
(#3)
In #3, Ruthie attends to the sense of the tongue-twister, treating it as it it set forth a claim about the real world.
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