Everett cares about fire safety

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Making the world a better place by brutally murdering anyone who's slightly misbehaving, one at a time.
- The strip feels like a Larry David wish fulfillment power fantasy. I can imagine it was pretty satisfying to people in growing, modernizing cities.
  
  Everett True respects wood.
  Not that particular wooden fence though.
I like these, I just wish there was a joke beyond "Everett attacks shitty dudes"
- It does seem to be his whole gimmick, lol
  I'll see if I can find any that break the formula.
  
  There are some where he complains to his wife and ends up the target of her anger.
  
  I wouldn't expect there to be any since him attacking shitty people is a match for the comic's title.
- I am absolutely loving these for showing someone in the early 1900s was making art about how absolutely shitty people were.
  On the downside it is clear that society has learned nothing.
- There's also a pun, since conflagration can also mean conflict.
  
  Sometimes the pun's more obvious
True.
- The man himself
Here you go... Library of Congress collection. I like the one's where his wife teaches him...
- Uhh, did this mean something different back then?
  
  Yes. I'm pretty sure he wasn't implying homosexuality, but talking about general partying and gallivanting around, promiscuity, etc. I don't think "gay" came to mostly mean homosexual until later in the 20th century. I believe Everett is just telling him he doesn't want to hear him bragging about his immoral lifestyle or gossiping about someone else's. There were a lot of prudes back then. That's my take, anyways...
- Did men actually cal their wives "wife" rather than their name?
  
  I know a guy who addresses his wife as Woman. It started as a joke and stuck. She loves it. When he needs to get her attention in a public place he just shouts, "Woman!" and she cheerfully responds. It gets great reactions from people who don't know.
  
  I've heard it as early as the 2000s from boomers, so it's not completely died out. Shit I've known people who aren't Mike pence that called their spouse "mother" and "father", though that's usually only silent and greatest generation, so that's largely gone.

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