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The closest Larson, 53, has come to working lately — and he didn't much like it, or stick to his planned fall 2002 deadline — was to compile every cartoon he ever syndicated into the giant, two-volume hardcover boxed set The Complete Far Side: 1980-1994 (Andrews McMeel; 1,245 pages). He spent three years perfecting it, redoing many of the eyeballs, unhappy with the way they were digitally transferred. Picking up the collection with pride, Larson says, "I just like to feel the weight. It's a 20-pounder, Mom! It can alternate as a murder weapon." He says there's not much profit in it for him, despite the fact that, as he says, at $135, it costs about one car payment. "It's just a very cool thing for a cartoonist to have. It's my death book. I can die now."

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Posted by Hobbes (Member # 433) on :
 
*drools*

Thanks Kat!



Hobbes
 

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Posted by Noemon (Member # 1115) on :
 
Man, I would *love* to have that. I can't quite see spending $135 to do it, but maybe someone will buy it for me for my birthday or something.
 

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Posted by Hobbes (Member # 433) on :
 
When is this coming out? Or is already out and I'm just a big dolt?

Hobbes
 

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Posted by Ayelar (Member # 183) on :
 
Amazon Prices Rock!

[ October 02, 2003, 03:27 PM: Message edited by: Ayelar ]
 

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Posted by BannaOj (Member # 3206) on :
 
I have never heard the phrase "cockles of my heart" before....

Is it one of those southern things that I missed during my sojourn there?

AJ
 

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Posted by Hobbes (Member # 433) on :
 
Thanks Ayelar! *Adds item to Christmas list*

Hobbes
 

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Posted by T. Analog Kid (Member # 381) on :
 
I think it is, in fact, one of those southern things...
 

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Posted by Hazen (Member # 161) on :
 
Now Bill Watterson needs to come out with the complete Calvin and Hobbes, and all will be well with the universe.
 

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Posted by Noemon (Member # 1115) on :
 
I don't *think* that's a southern thing. I've never been in the South (well, except for a trip to Disney World when I was 14), and I'm familiar with that phrase.
 

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Posted by katharina (Member # 827) on :
 
http://phrases.shu.ac.uk/bulletin_board/10/messages/669.html

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Oxford Engl. Dict. says "For derivation cf. quot. 1669. Others have sought its origin in L. 'corculum' dim. of 'cor' heart. (Latham conjectured 'the most probable explanation lies (1) in the likeness of a heart to a cockleshell; the base of the former being compared to the hinge of the latter; (2) in the zoological name for the cockle being Cardium, from the Greek [word for] heart'."
: This is the "quot. 1669": R. Lower, "Tract. de Corde," . . . Fibrae quidem spirali suo amb tu h licem sive cochleam satis apte referunt.

TO WARM THE COCKLES OF ONE’S HEART – “…it is astonishing that anatomists of the seventeenth century were already likening the human heart to the shape and valves of the mollusk, common on European shores, and the cockle. That is to say, they saw sufficient resemblance between the two valves of the mollusk and the two ventricles of the heart to refer to the latter as the cockles. Thus, because the heart was long supposed to be the seat of the affections, men spoke of delighting, of rejoicing, of pleasing, and, more recently, of warming the cockles of one’s heart.” From “2107 Curious Word Origins, Sayings & Expressions from White Elephants to a Song and Dance” by Charles Earle Funk (Galahad Book, New York, 1993).

On the other hand…
“Cockles of the heart have nothing to do with the cockles and mussels Sweet Molly Malone used to sell…the word comes from the Latin phrase ‘cochleae cordis,’ meaning ‘ventricles of the heart,’ while the shellfish ‘cockle’ comes from the Latin ‘conchylium,’ meaning ‘conch shell.’” From “Morris Dictionary of Word and Phrase Origins” by William and Mary Morris (HarperCollins, New York, 1977, 1988).

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*wriggles happily* It comes from Latin, all most great phrases do.

Not that I knew that.

[ October 02, 2003, 04:36 PM: Message edited by: katharina ]
 

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Posted by mackillian (Member # 586) on :
 
I WISH my car payment was $135.
 

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Posted by Ryan Hart (Member # 5513) on :
 
Wow. I tingle with anticipation.
 

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Posted by Liquor and Fireworks (Member # 5785) on :
 
Buy.com has it cheaper, they ALWAYS beat amazon. Plus they have free shipping.
 

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Posted by Noemon (Member # 1115) on :
 
Ryan, there's good news and bad news. The bad news is that that isn't anticipation. The good news is that a shot of penicillin will probably take care of it.
 

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Posted by jexx (Member # 3450) on :
 
mack, we have one of these at the bookstore. If nobody buys it, you'll actually get to *hold* it on Monday.

*grin*
 

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Posted by jehovoid (Member # 2014) on :
 
It definitely not Southern, as the first time I ever heard it was Dennis Leary's use in the intro to a song of his which will go unnamed.

And, I wish I had $135.

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