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Offline Diane CBPFC

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Egon's eye
« on: November 18, 2009, 04:30:20 PM »
With all the emphasis on the Christmas cooking strips featuring Egon – it just occurred to me that perhaps Roger knows how Egon lost his eye?

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Offline Tarquin Thunderthighs lll

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Re: Egon's eye
« Reply #1 on: November 18, 2009, 05:01:27 PM »
My guess is that it's just a comic strip and the eye patch is simply a comedic prop to highlight the ineptitude of a fictitious chef, Diane, but hey, let's all wait with bated breath all the same.

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Offline The Peepmaster

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Re: Egon's eye
« Reply #2 on: November 18, 2009, 05:03:55 PM »
Yes. How did he lose it. and who ate it?
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Offline Diane CBPFC

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Re: Egon's eye
« Reply #3 on: November 18, 2009, 05:13:27 PM »
I call for Tarqs remarks (the whole reply) to be struck from the record: “just a comic strip” indeed!

I hope that Egon isn't sober enough to be reading this.  >:(
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Offline Roger Kettle

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Re: Egon's eye
« Reply #4 on: November 18, 2009, 06:21:55 PM »
That's just the way I doodled Egon when he first appeared. Rob Baker may correct me, but I'm pretty sure there has never been an explanation for the missing eye.
On a similar note, it's only a few years since I discovered that Popeye has only one eye----although, granted, there's a bit of a clue in the name.

Offline The Peepmaster

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Re: Egon's eye
« Reply #5 on: November 18, 2009, 07:16:18 PM »
I'd be interested to find out how Custer got a camel's rectum for an eye.
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Re: Egon's eye
« Reply #6 on: November 18, 2009, 08:01:22 PM »
Sarky Tarky can now de-bate his breath 'cos I can find no explanation to how Egon lost his eye. I think the only reference to it was made in this series from 1985:




Trivia Time.  Egon's first ever appearance was in a 6-strip series, with Beau, in 1979, when he spoke only one word.  Your starter for ten is:   What was that word?
Keep it clean...
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Offline Diane CBPFC

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Re: Egon's eye
« Reply #7 on: November 18, 2009, 08:08:46 PM »
Mince?
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Re: Egon's eye
« Reply #8 on: November 18, 2009, 08:22:12 PM »
Nope.

Offline Roger Kettle

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Re: Egon's eye
« Reply #9 on: November 18, 2009, 08:29:55 PM »
Sadly, I've just looked it up. I won't tell, though.

Offline Roger Kettle

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Re: Egon's eye
« Reply #10 on: November 18, 2009, 08:31:57 PM »
I'd be interested to find out how Custer got a camel's rectum for an eye.
That's not Custer. It's Charles de Rudio. You're such an idiot, Peeps.

Offline Diane CBPFC

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Re: Egon's eye
« Reply #11 on: November 18, 2009, 11:36:20 PM »
Sherry?
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Offline The Peepmaster

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Re: Egon's eye
« Reply #12 on: November 19, 2009, 12:54:49 AM »
"Propensity"
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Re: Egon's eye
« Reply #13 on: November 19, 2009, 08:30:13 PM »
dinner ?

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Re: Egon's eye
« Reply #14 on: November 19, 2009, 08:37:11 PM »
Agamemnon?