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From: Don_from_AZ <djatechNOSPAM@comcast.net.invalid>
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Subject: Re: Happy "Dennis the Menace" Day
Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2025 20:44:46 -0700
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ted@loft.tnolan.com (Ted Nolan <tednolan>) writes:

> In article <vqsu2t$uv$1@reader1.panix.com>,
> Keith F. Lynch <kfl@KeithLynch.net> wrote:
>>74 years ago today, a new comic strip named "Dennis the Menace," about
>>a mischievous child, first appeared in American newspapers.
>>
>>On the same day, a new comic strip, also named "Dennis the Menace,"
>>also about a mischievous child, first appeared in British newspapers.
>>
>>The two comic strips have nothing to do with each other.  It's just a
>>remarkable coincidence.
>>
>>What are the odds?  And is this evidence that we're living in a
>>simulation?  In a poorly programmed simulation?
>
> Well, you can shave a tiny bit off the odds as that was a Monday, a typical
> day for a strip debut.
And a tiny bit more off the odds, since if somebody wanted to write
about a child who was a "menace" it would be obvious to call him
"Dennis" for the rhyme.
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-Don_from_AZ-