Accuracy is important.
Originally published 7 July 1999

I've been meaning to rerun this strip for a while. I couldn't find it until just now. I don't know why, but I mistakenly believed it was more recent.

I claimed in an earlier strip that only Ozy had ever broken the fourth wall and addressed the audience. Obviously that was wrong. Millie has done it a number of times; now, Stephan does it.

This is an example of a time that e-mail comments actually influenced the strip's contents. I had Ozy make some claims about the behavior of subatomic particles, and some people disputed them. So I let Stephan voice their complaints. Then I gave Millie the last word.

So it actually was the revenge of the language-oriented (me). Whether I was right or wrong about electrons, the metaphor was the important thing. So there.

Then other people disputed Stephan's corrections, and claimed I had been right to begin with. Is it wrong that I don't actually care?

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