Brain Comics for 2008-10-01

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Close-up shot of a newspaper: "HAMSTER SELECTED AS NEW AMBASSADOR", with subheading "Strong cheese credentials cited in choice". Other headlines: "Tree Appointed Lord Commissioner of the Admiralty", "Protests Build Against Hat Tax".

Cut to shot of the cats. Oolong is holding out a sombrero made out of newspaper to Ferdinand. Ferdinand peers at the paper.

Oolong: Look, I made you a sombrero out of newspaper!

Ferdinand: Wait...this hat says the hamster's been made ambassador! You know what this means?

Oolong: Improved relations with Syria?

Ferdinand: It means we need better duds if we're to be granted an audience! Quickly, to the haberdashery!

Narrator: Meanwhile, at the haberdashery...

Cut to a shot of the haberdashery. Brainley is haggling with an unseen gentleman at the counter. A bowler hat is on the counter.

Clerk: What do you think of this one?

Brainley: Oh, I dunno...I don't suppose you have any free-range hats, do you? Anything certified organic?

Clerk: Perhaps our new line of papercraft hats? They're all the rage in Paris this year.

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Free range hats first appeared in Brain Comics #24. The hat tax really did exist in England, from 1784-1811.

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Brain Comics #130 originally published 2008-10-01.

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