Out on a Limb
I think it is a sign of an old geezerdom that writer Frank Doyle suggests a vaguely sexual component to just writing a phone number on Veronica's leg. I think he might have been leafing over old work, in this case Melody writing numbers on her stomach played as tribute to Goldie Hawn on Laugh In, for plot points. It is here a contrived plot point as Archie should have just jotted the number on his hand, but I guess there flirtatious behavior and she is just setting up an excuse to come by.
We see the number gets differentiated from an unclear scrawl in the original printing. I go with 191120, maybe. Maybe the 9 is a 4. At any rate, keep the number in mind.
Strunk and White correcting the punctuation.
It would have made more sense if the number on Veronica's leg had been played as getting smeared over a day -- at least we have some kind of plot development, a complications ensue. The numbers are completely off from what we not entirely cleanly saw earlier in the reprint.
