Mercury Hat posted:

I'm glad this got posted in the new thread because I'm dying to get an explanation for what Nancy's done to that toothpaste tube. Was this a common thing to have happen or what .

EasyEW posted:

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Little Lefty (October 25-27, 1937)

Alhazred posted:

Storefri







Possibly nws

Hostile V posted:

Selachian posted:

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Haifisch posted:

I'm not entirely sure about Nancy. Maybe a joke about it being blown up by sewer gas/someone down in the sewer?

BB I'm pretty sure is just a 'they thought they'd be getting off easy while Sarge was at training, but instead they get a substitute sergeant who's a giant presumably-nasty caveman!' joke.

Green Intern posted:

SuperKlaus posted:

Beetle Bailey made me think of something I don't know about the Army. It uses civilian employees sometimes right? Is Miss Buxley never seen in uniform A) because it wouldn't be sexy B) because she's a civilian employee or C) both?

Selachian posted:

Pogo 1/26-28/50





The dog is quoting a variation of an old nursery rhyme.

Archie 6/3-5/46





"T.L." was a phrase George Burns and Gracie Allen often used on their radio show -- but none of the sources I can find agree on what it stood for. One source suggests "tough luck," which fits how Archie is using it here.

A Single Sphink posted:

Hey, that's literally where Etrigan came from.

Kennel posted:

Dustin

Kennel posted:

Dustin

Endless Mike posted:

It does seem like they've been updating his parents' cultural references somewhat more recently, but that may just be in my head. But even in 2014 that was a dated reference for people in roughly their mid-40s.

CommonShore posted:

I suspect the boys are making a comic

davidspackage posted:

Next strip, Mary is on the phone: "back it off Wilbur, we're coming on too strong. Don't worry, I'm working on her, we'll get you back together."

Shaman Tank Spec posted:

Fingerpori

readingatwork posted:

I'm *really* not sure how I feel about this but I trust Tauhid enough to roll with it for now. At the very least it opens the door to some potentially cool stuff.

Hempuli posted:

B. Virtanen

Virtanen used a more specific word of his wife, "pirttihirmu", effectively meaning "spouse who's overly strict about things around the household and bosses their partner around", but I couldn't think of a suitable English equivalent word.

davidspackage posted:

I am slightly uncomfortable with the strange men repeatedly sequestering themselves with a little girl.

Hippocrass posted:

Fender means pretty much the same thing in English, mostly applied to automobiles.
The guitar is named after Leo Fender who designed the Fender Stratocaster guitar.

readingatwork posted:

Crabgrass

Haifisch posted:

Footrot Flats

Selachian posted:

Archie 11/7-9/46

Bongo Bill posted:

Well, after all, part of the premise is that Archie is dumb.

Professor Wayne posted:

Pickles


Hagar the Horrible


Zits

Hostile V posted:

Kevin and Kell

PainterofCrap posted:

Apparently, it was A Thing to go back to high school after graduating, to fill in some educational gaps. "P.G." students.

https://www.privateschoolreview.com/blog/the-pg-year

Haifisch posted:

F_Shit_Fitzgerald posted:

Now it's this kid's fault that the basement is flooded? gently caress you, lady.

I think either order works for that Wallace strip, but I like Amelia throwing the carrot after she was yelled at.

EasyEW posted:

I'd go into it a bit more, but we're overdue finding out how Sally Forth pissed off her mother this time.

EasyEW posted:

You're lucky it's been raining all day.



Or the "half-assed attempt at authenticity" version:

My Lovely Horse posted:

Don't you make new holes when you have to tighten your belt?

My Lovely Horse posted:

I mean I guess, every belt I ever owned had holes more or less right up to the end though. I'm gonna chalk it down to the 40s were different and the belts had holes towards the middle.

readingatwork posted:

I had a friend who's mom would absolutely let her do that as long as she didn't abuse the privilege and honestly it seems like a pretty good policy. Adults do it all the time to get a breather from work so I don't see the issue.

Shaman Tank Spec posted:

Fingerpori



I know the English expression is "stinking rich", but in Finnish we have an expression, "upporikas", that translates as "sunken rich", basically. Nobody really knows where it came from, but we have a ton of similar nonsensical word combinations (and no I am not just speaking of the entire Finnish dictionary!) of similar sounding words, where they are kind of stronger or more emphatic versions. When you want to emphasize that something is VERY new, instead of saying it is "uusi", new, you can say it's "upouusi".

It's kinda funny actually, that these kinds of expressions are our version of English speaking people trying to claim that "poo poo" is actually an acronym for Ship High In Transit and came about because ships stuck in anchor ("High in Transit") would start to smell bad because bloo bloo bloo. People are trying to come up with rational explanations for these terms, while actual linguists agree that they're either just pleasant sounding nonsensical combinations that are fun to say, or versions of words from old forgotten dialects that have morphed over the years into their current forms.