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[[File:eddasolange_5998.png|frame|Edda and Solange]]
The comic strip ''
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* [[Meaningful Name]]: [[Romeo and Juliet|Juliette]], Edda (after grandma Edna).
* [[Messy Hair]]: Amos'. It is/was possibly sentient and [[Hammerspace Hair|a black hole.]]
** Edda's dance partner's boyfriend (as well as [[All the Good Men Are Gay|the girl who was crushing on him]]
* [[Mood Whiplash]]: Edda and Juliette have a pleasant meeting with their newly-discovered bio-grand/father Kiesel, then they admonish him for wasting his life pining for their grand/mother Edna, then {{spoiler|he travels to Pennsylvania to pay a surprise visit to Edna, then she's shocked and doesn't want to meet his gaze, then they kiss, then Thorax shows up and silently leaves, and finally Edna moves to Vienna with Kiesel where she's promptly mistaken for Kiesel's wife.}}
* [[More Teeth Than the Osmond Family]]: A frequent knock on McEldowney's art: grinning characters appear to have triple the normal number of teeth. Also, women charcters frequently bare their teeth and/or snarl when they're in a sexy mood, so whenever the characters get frisky, the women always look like they're about to tear out the men's throats.
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'''Democracy''': Noun. Informal. A form of government in which people, faced with the prospect of self-rule, cast the job into [[Strawman Political|an exclusive mire of unskilled panderers.]] In earlier times, entire wars were waged for the stated purpose of protecting democracy. Now wars are waged to protect freedom, [[What the Hell, Hero?|democracy having been abolished toward that end.]]
'''Allegiance''': Noun. An undefined word school children are taught to pledge daily toward a flag that is otherwise ignored. [[Lovable Traitor|The purpose of this pledge is to teach the young that "allegiance" has a limited shelf life of 24 hours.]]
'''Friendship''': Noun. [[Fantastic Racism|That which unites person 1 with person 2 though their mutual hatred of person 3.]]<ref> See [[Discworld|the first page quote]].</ref>
'''"Nothing is Perfect"''': A phrase demoting that [[Mary Sue|the speaker is familiar enough with perfection]] to state, categorically, that it does not exist. Compare this with [[Holier Than Thou|the preacher who is unfamiliar enough with hell to state that it does.]]
'''Tolerance''': Noun. The implicit affirmation that [[Hair-Trigger Temper|there is something about nearly everybody else that must be tolerated.]]
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* [[Too Much Information]]: Remember, the WWII flashback is being told by an elderly mother to her daughter, plus her granddaughter and ''an entire ballet company'' eavesdropping on the phone. {{spoiler|And later by elderly biological father to just-discovered daughter and granddaughter.}} Lampshaded, far too late, here:
{{quote|'''Juliette:''' [[Unusual Euphemism|Gloriosky]], mother.
'''Gran''': Well you asked what I did. <ref> She bought Kiesl his very first ice cream, then licked it off his fingers. In public.</ref>
'''Juliette''': Not in [[Squick|such detail]].
'''Gran''': Well, [[Dirty Old Woman|I'm telling you anyway.]] }}
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