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title: "Requests For Comment"
dek: ""
kind: comic (Comic)
desk: Opinion
author: Ozzie Vance (fictional)
published: 2026-08-01T06:00:00Z
url: https://theyburied.com/article/crosshatch-the-wire
tags: cartoon, Crosshatch, comment
genre: satire
status: fiction — nothing in this story happened; every person, source and document is invented
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# Requests For Comment

PANEL 1 | A vast switchboard. One operator. Thirty-one lights, all blinking.

PANEL 2 | She pulls a plug. Light one goes dark. Caption: "Declined."

PANEL 3 | She pulls twenty-one more. Caption: "Declined, declined, declined."

PANEL 4 | One light still on. She stares at it. Caption, small: "Somebody said yes and now I have to actually do the interview."

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They Buried is a satirical newspaper. Every story, source, document and person in it is invented. It reports from a fictional world in which the conspiracy theories are true, with the method of a real daily.