Have a Gay Old Time/Newspaper Comics

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Examples of Have a Gay Old Time in Newspaper Comics include:

  • The June 3, 1983 strip of Garfield is either this or Getting Crap Past the Radar, depending on whether Jim Davis was aware of the Double Entendre or not.
  • There's a The Far Side cartoon of a bunch of scientists watching a movie featuring a caveman skeleton and the title "IT CAME FROM OLDUVAI". The caption: "Anthro horror films." This obviously refers to anthropologists, but now it would indicate something very different.
  • 'Making love' shows up at times in Krazy Kat, in what is probably the original sweet-talk sense, as opposed to the down-and-dirty one.
    • Not to mention a strip in which Ignatz's ancestor, in love with Krazy's ancestor (a queen), is apprehended by her guards: "How dare he get gay with our sainted 'Kat'!" Since Krazy is not consistently female, well...
  • Many early Broons and Oor Wullie comics had characters using the word "Gey", a now-obsolete eastern Scottish word for "Very". It wasn't unusual for characters to remark: "That's gey queer" when something odd was up! Another strip in particular had Horace refer to Gran'paw as a "Deif auld faggot", "faggot" at the time in Scotland meaning something tired and/or useless.
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