Eggplant is an Italian America slur for African Americans. For example, on The Sopranos. Although, they normally say it in Italian: "muliagne," or, "moolie" for short.

I grew up in NJ.

The Oatmeal's lawyer, doing work: http://www.scribd.com/doc/96850920/F...tmeal-Response

Charles Carrean is now suing Matthew Inman, IndieGoGo, the National Wildlife Federation, and the American Cancer Society. WTF.

http://www.techdirt.com/articles/201...ng-money.shtml

Came here to post this. While I suspect this is a name branding attempt in aka "anything in print is good print" kinda promotional deal, that lawyers do with pro bono work etc...attacking the ACS and NWF and seeking claims, personally, seems a bit of a stretch; not to mention a next level douchebag move.

copied to OOT for a bit more exposure.

http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/34...yjunk-1212316/

It's just getting drawn out and kind of sad at this point.

The part in the letter where he talks about the original pterodactyl character comic and is like "The comic can be viewed here: <link>"

I thought he was for sure going to post a link to FunnyJunk

http://theoatmeal.com/blog/charity_money

$211k raised!

That charity comic is the best thing I've ever seen on the site I think.