“As we thrash on to a finish through the current thicket of flags and banners, we realize it is no finish at all, but a new inning. Secure in the rules, we know that, given three strikes, the truth will out.”

— Walt Kelly

Equal Time for Pogo (1968)

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American cartoonist 1913–1973

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