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    7 days ago

    In the 4th panel, Hobbes is referring to carbon paper.

    This is a sheet of special coated paper that you slid between 2 sheets of writing paper.

    When you wrote or typed on the top sheet, the substance on the carbon paper would imprint on the second sheet, making a more-or-less exact copy of whatever you wrote or typed on that second sheet, hence a “carbon copy”

    The term “carbon copy” is the origin of the “cc” field when copying others on an email.