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Original Usenet message from alt.ascii-art, 27 Nov 1996.
Re: THE TICK

Re: THE TICK

> Phoenix T'Kar (tka...@dimensional.com) writes:

> No way. He's a mouse. 
Egad, man! Wrong!

> Besides the fact that bats don't look like what Die Fleidermaus
> (definite sp, I assume) dresses up as,
Hello? Look at his nostrils! He looks more like a real bat than Batman
ever did. (sp. is Fledermaus BTW)

> there have been references in the television show to him being a mouse.
> Not a bat.
Then why is "Die Fledermaus" German for "The Bat"? (Well, literally "The
Flying Mouse", but that's what they call bats, even if they aren't really
mice).

> Maybe they've been really subtle jokes I haven't been getting, but I
> assume when they say he's a mouse, they mean he's a mouse. 
They just call him "Maus" for short, is all.

> And I've been a Tick freak since the premiere episode, all the
> way through the latest episode, "The Tick vs. Prehistory".
"Mega...mega..mega..."
"Whoah! Sounds big!"

-Michael Keesey
tmk...@wam.umd.edu
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From: "T. Mike Keesey" <tmk...@wam.umd.edu>
Subject: Re: THE TICK
Date: 1996/11/27
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