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And right off the bat, I unintentionally plagarized something. PE(aott) originally ran in a college newspaper. Even though there are now more than four times as many strips of PE(aott), I sometimes dig through through the old strip for ideas -- jokes funny then that are still funny now. So here I think why not have a "they're driving, and let's have Moriarty get lost" strip? I think I remember a comic strip I did way back in the first run of PE(aott) that had this, so I write and draw and put it up online. A few hours later, someone calls me out on the Tag Board -- that wasn't my strip I updated; it was one of Berke Breathed's old Bloom County strips. "Crap," thinkest moi.

As soon as I got home, I took down the unintentional plagarism and replaced it with what you've got here. The "repeated something" was the Bloom County strip.

The strip in question featured a cross-country trip. All the same shots of a car in the distance, speeding along. It went somewhat like this: Panel one featured, oh, let's say a farm house, barn and silo in the background. "Through America's heartland!" Panel two had a forest. "Through forests!" Panel three had some mountains. "Across mountain ranges!" Panel four was the same as panel one. "Through America's heartland!" Someone in the car says "Just stop and ask for directions."

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