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A comic your grammar will appreciate

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Strip by: Andrew Coker, David Morgan-Mar

T-Rex: I was watching Stranger Things 2, and it has a cinema showing The Terminator.
T-Rex: FOUL! - I called!
T-Rex: But I checked, and it was NOT an anachronism. It was I who were the fool!
Utahraptor: So it was an ananachronism?
T-Rex: Yes!
Utahraptor: Did you just abuse the subjunctive to imply that you being the fool was a counterfactual?
T-Rex: What if I was??

The author writes:

In fact, they really did their research. The opening episode of Stranger Things 2 is set on 28 October, 1984. The original US release date of The Terminator was 26 October, 1984.