This is interesting. After eyeteeth‘s comment and a cursory web search I realized I totally had my head in my feathers. The Howard the Duck comic always did use that phrase, and I had totally forgotten this. So my “neat thing” was the other way around, a tribute to HtD from another Ohioan: the lyrics to the Pretenders’ “Precious”.
Howard the Duck and Mr. Stress both stayed
Trapped in a world that they never made
So I’m an idiot. But it’s still a good song.
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it’s a pretty dumb line
As I’ve never made a world, I too am similarly trapped.
You’d think they were trying to say the duck was Galactus or something.
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Re: it’s a pretty dumb line
No, no, that would be “Trapped in a world he was about to eat.” 🙂
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But, hey, you’re *our* idiot. And that means something, dammit. 🙂
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