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CSotD: It’s the same the whole world over, only moreso there

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Mike Peterson Published: November 15, 2010 1 minute 0 comments

Madam & Eve goes through sustained periods where you really have to follow South African current events to know what's going on, what with references to who has done what and with which and to whom.* Lately, it's been one of those periods, which says a great deal more about what's going on in South Africa than it does about the general accessibility of the strip.

The trick for those of us overseas, generally, is to accept that we're not always going to laugh as hard as someone who dwells in the midst of all this corruption and intrigue. And that we should probably be grateful we don't need to.

But today's is universal, even if you don't live in a place where things are apparently completely blatant.

* Footnote: The classic and oft-cited limerick that ends "Over who had the right to do what and with which and to whom" is also set in Africa, albeit at the opposite end of the continent. It was written by Oliver St. John Gogarty, the medical student who, in 1904,  had the literary misfortune to share a Martello tower with James Joyce and thereby become immortalized as "stately, plump Buck Mulligan." Talk about something where you have to be paying attention to really get the jokes …