Digital cartoons don’t exist? Or are less self-aware? And why are newer comic characters in black-and-white?
From Irv.
Back in my day. . .
Category / CIDU
Done! Over!
We think there’s a modern use of “I’m done [with that]”, probably more common among people considerably younger than Dag, amounting to “I’m never going to be involved with that at all, ever again”. Do you know that sense? Is Dagwood meaning it that way – in both places? Since Blondie is taking it the standard way, is anybody doing the Bumsteads’ taxes this year?
That “I’m done” — or at least the second one? — is pretty much equivalent to Cookie’s “I’m really over [it]” here:
Yeah, we’re happy to treat our officers’ home addresses as public info
And incidentally, even for an established ditz like Eve, isn’t the invocation of “Who’s on first?” in panel 1 a bit of an unsupported swerve? (For those not familiar with the strip, Eve is the blonde younger sister, and the titular Juliet is the brunette older sister looking in from the doorway.)
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From BillR:
Just some jargon
Also disturbing is that apparently they say ‘phi’ as a rhyme for ‘be’.
Who is waiting?
Contributed by Ken Berkun:
Who is waiting for whom? / Who is waiting on whom?
Local remote
Is there consistency from one panel to another about the apparent kind of malfunction?
Finger food? Or what?
Is this just a language peeve?
ICYMI “tuna fish” is looked down on by some language peevers as an example of eliminable redundancy.
If the joke is that only someone as dim as Zero would make this error, what side of the dispute does this come down on?
I lift my lamp
Okay, if it were a candle, which we could figure gets lit to accompany special moments, the age correlation might start to make sense. But how or why with a lamp?
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