NP: find the hidden Pynchon reference in this comic

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There's a mostly obscured quote of some kind behind the teacher's head in the first column.  Any ideas what is obscured?



-----Original Message-----
From: Carlo Trimarchi <mr.spoon21 at gmail.com>
To: Bekah <bekah0176 at sbcglobal.net>
Cc: Rich Clavey <antizoyd at yahoo.com>; Michael Bailey <michael.lee.bailey at gmail.com>; David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com>; P-list <pynchon-l at waste.org>
Sent: Tue, Dec 11, 2012 2:49 pm
Subject: Re: NP: find the hidden Pynchon reference in this comic


You, guys, need to read more comics

2012/12/11 Bekah <bekah0176 at sbcglobal.net>:
> That actually makes sense!   And I'm chuckling.   And  "Though you guys did 
clean up the language"  certainly fits.
>
> Bekah
> On Dec 11, 2012, at 10:49 AM, Rich Clavey <antizoyd at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>> After consulting my in-house expert on these matters it is his opinion that 
this is a classic example, in the age of emoticons, of expressing the idea of a 
penis without actually drawing a picture of a graphic one... It also fits in 
nicely with the strip. You slept with the principal. You are so dead.
>> Rich
>>
>> http://www.macclaveyphotography.com/
>>
>> --- On Tue, 12/11/12, David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> From: David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com>
>> Subject: Re: NP: find the hidden Pynchon reference in this comic
>> To: "Michael Bailey" <michael.lee.bailey at gmail.com>
>> Cc: "P-list" <pynchon-l at waste.org>
>> Date: Tuesday, December 11, 2012, 9:51 AM
>>
>> 8=D is perfectly normal as part of a larger equation.
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Dec 11, 2012 at 9:47 AM, Michael Bailey <michael.lee.bailey at gmail.com> 
wrote:
>>  Ian Livingston <igrlivingston at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > I agree with Bekah. I don't see the penis and the Reading Rainbow poster
>> > features a rainbow with the word Read on it.
>> >
>>
>> well, it is supposed to be a ribald cartoon...
>>
>> a-and what kind of equation is 8 = D    that does strike me as having
>> a meaning outside math
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> - where the bee sucks, there suck I
>>
>

 
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