"Krejomar, would you please shut up? It's

"Krejomar, would you please shut up? It's wrecking the Gematria. Everyone else in the Cosmos has agreed to be silent for just this one moment." Urmok implored him, but Krejomar

couldn't resist. PEEP! Krejomar tried to keep a straight face, but something had gotten into him. He could not honor Urmok's plea for a moment of Cosmos silence. PEEP! PEEP!

It was Easter and Krejomar was guzzling those little yellow marshmallow birds. PEEP! PEEP! Urmok finally couldn't take, "YOU! Who dares interrupt the Cosmos moment of silence?"

Umok took a swig of the pink frothy liquid garnished with a sliver of lime. "No one interrupts my daily Cosmo!" With that, Umok sashayed past Krejomar and his peeps.

A looked at them and then at E. E looked at them and then at A.They looked first at A then at E. Then they all looked at each other, wondering what they were doing. They put down

the vowels for the last time; I, O, U, and possibly Y (no one seemed clear on that point later) came screaming out of the books like banshees. The Consonants cowered in fright

and gathered into clusters. The vowels could only terrorize them by moaning: "oooo" "uuuu," so the consonants chased them off. Finding themselves free of the book's imprisonment,

& unable to do more than grrr, tsktsk & pfft. Even in symphysy the Fricatives & the Glottals came to a full Stop. Meanwhile the vowels had become rather prosodic,even the long ones

were nearly intelligible. Beetle bailey stood and stared at all of this for quite some time before making selections for his next comic strip. He stuck with skulls and symbols.