
While in Boston recently, I heard a couple examples of slangy word shortening as depicted in the second panel. "Let's get some sush" some guy said to his friend. Then, at dinner, someone told a story about hearing the word "totally" shortened to "totes." Of course I could not resist doing a cartoon about this.
Run-DMC employ the term "copacetic" on their album Raising Hell, so I drew the guy in the first panel in Run-DMC garb.

While playing around with webdings for the third panel, I found this utterly surreal one that looks like the
Two Tone Records man levitating above the ground. Could a Microsoft fontmaker have been a ska fan? I found only one mention of the levitating Two Tone man on the internet, by someone who, coincidentally enough, decided to
make him into a comic character.
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