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Illustration: How many of you saw the movie Garfield? Well before Garfield hit the big screen, he was in the Newspaper. In one particular strip Garfield is lying in his box and his owner, Jon, walks up and says, "Are you Depressed, Garfield? Garfield, doesn’t answer him, he just gives him one of those disgusted looks. Then Jon says, “Well, look on the bright side. Compared to absolute, hopeless despair, depressed is cheerful" To which Garfield sarcastically, replies "gee, I feel better already"

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