Everett True Comics @midwest.social Rolando @lemmy.world 2 mo. ago

Everett True is an adblocker (September 21, 1916)

Printed 108 years ago today in The Pensacola Journal.

Found on the Library of Congress site.

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Funnily enough "gulp cafe" is name of the instance my Mastodon is hosted on, I wonder if they'll find that coincidence as moderately amusing as I have.
- Could the instance be named as a Evereteer reference by a fan?
  
  unlikely, as it has another reason for the name that is fairly fitting for the instance's niche (which is also why I just mentioned the name rather than directly link it, as it's theme is not something that most without a specific interest would want to randomly click a link to and see.)
Nothing changes eh!
What sort of movie would Everett True be watching in 1916?
- Mary Pickford, Charlie Chaplin, and Douglas Fairbanks woulda been the big names at the time; D.W. Griffith's Intolerance came out about three weeks prior and was cleaning up pretty well at the 1916 equivalent of the box office
  
  D.W. Griffith’s Intolerance
  
  I looked it up and wow, I didn't realize that movies were already so big in 1916.
  
  Probably a literal box office
- Great question! Wikipedia has the answer. Charlie Chaplin was in his prime. D.W. Griffith put out "Intolerance", which I've read about but never seen. Several Cecil B. DeMille movies. And, of course, Everett True had one of his shorts.
Based.
I heard him say “something doing“
- @brbposting @Rolando Everett is one of those characters where I can hear his voice absolutely clearly
Isn't there one of these where True whacks a guy for doing the same thing? XD
- that's during the moving picture though
  
  this is before the moving picture
  
  let's bring that phrase back
oops didn't realize this was a repost, sorry bout that Wild Bill.

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