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m_f@discuss.online Joined: 2024-12-11

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Transcript:

Lucy and Charlie Brown stand lapping up their ice-cream cones.

Patty approaches and Charlie Brown explains, "We're having an ice-cream cone eating race..."

Patty asks, "Who's ahead?"

He replies, "Lucy...by two laps!"

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threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works Joined: 2023-06-10

Are they saying "lap" after each lick? Or had non-speech-bubble text not been invented in 1952?

m_f@discuss.online Joined: 2024-12-11

Kind of a weird artistic choice, I think. While looking into this, found a site dedicated to comic book sound effects:

https://www.comicbookfx.com/result.php?tags=lap&display=50&order=dateolderorder&page=1&x=6&y=10

Unfortunately, it doesn't list "Lap!", but looking at the date ranges, you can see that the convention without speech bubbles was clearly around by then.

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