The twins are not cut-and-paste copies, I'm honestly impressed

Six Chix, 6/29/23

The verb scoff, dictionaries will tell you, means to speak derisively about someone or something, or treat them with scorn, and that's how I've used it pretty much my whole adult life. But recently I began to have a panicked feeling that I've been wrong, because in closed captioning for most movies or TV shows, the word is often put in brackets to indicate that a character is making a dismissive little noise like "tcha" or thereabouts. Was the noise scoffing, and I had incorrectly extended it to metaphorically describe the attitude that the noise conveyed? I had not, but was primed to worry about this because it would be the opposite trajectory of a habit I had in my youth, when I read Peanuts anthologies obsessively and correctly understood from them that "sigh" was an expression of melancholy, but didn't understand that in those strips it was standing in for a nonverbal sound so I just went around saying the word "sigh" aloud when I was sad or wistful. No adult ever corrected me on this, presumably because it was very, very funny. Anyway, that's what I always think about when I see the word "sigh" in a comic or indeed anywhere else. I have no idea what today's Six Chix is getting at.

Dennis the Menace, 6/29/23