Comments on: LOL-August 31 http://comicsidontunderstand.com/wordpress/2009/08/31/lol-august-31/ JFK: ''we choose to go to the ...'' Wed, 23 May 2012 00:36:06 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.1 By: Julie http://comicsidontunderstand.com/wordpress/2009/08/31/lol-august-31/#comment-24788 Julie Fri, 04 Sep 2009 21:08:28 +0000 http://comicsidontunderstand.com/wordpress/2009/08/31/lol-august-31/#comment-24788 I really like the xkcd one, but it's missing how to google something. I really like the xkcd one, but it’s missing how to google something.

]]> By: Keera http://comicsidontunderstand.com/wordpress/2009/08/31/lol-august-31/#comment-24736 Keera Fri, 04 Sep 2009 08:51:31 +0000 http://comicsidontunderstand.com/wordpress/2009/08/31/lol-august-31/#comment-24736 If you open up the character map on your computer and go to the part with all the "foreign" letters and copy them down by hand, you get what Granny said. If you open up the character map on your computer and go to the part with all the “foreign” letters and copy them down by hand, you get what Granny said.

]]> By: furrykef http://comicsidontunderstand.com/wordpress/2009/08/31/lol-august-31/#comment-24729 furrykef Fri, 04 Sep 2009 04:12:26 +0000 http://comicsidontunderstand.com/wordpress/2009/08/31/lol-august-31/#comment-24729 Doesn't look anything at all like Greek or Cyrillic. Handwriting doesn't differ from printed fonts THAT much in any writing system I know of (well, not counting cursive Chinese/Japanese, which not even native speakers can read without some kind of training). Doesn’t look anything at all like Greek or Cyrillic. Handwriting doesn’t differ from printed fonts THAT much in any writing system I know of (well, not counting cursive Chinese/Japanese, which not even native speakers can read without some kind of training).

]]> By: Mitch4 http://comicsidontunderstand.com/wordpress/2009/08/31/lol-august-31/#comment-24688 Mitch4 Thu, 03 Sep 2009 11:28:35 +0000 http://comicsidontunderstand.com/wordpress/2009/08/31/lol-august-31/#comment-24688 I was wondering if it might be Greek, or Cyrillic. I know it doesn't look like either of those in the standard printed fonts, but handwritten scripts can be pretty different. I was wondering if it might be Greek, or Cyrillic. I know it doesn’t look like either of those in the standard printed fonts, but handwritten scripts can be pretty different.

]]> By: chuckers http://comicsidontunderstand.com/wordpress/2009/08/31/lol-august-31/#comment-24686 chuckers Thu, 03 Sep 2009 09:03:39 +0000 http://comicsidontunderstand.com/wordpress/2009/08/31/lol-august-31/#comment-24686 Shorthand? If not that, probably just artistic scribbles. Shorthand?

If not that, probably just artistic scribbles.

]]> By: Mitch4 http://comicsidontunderstand.com/wordpress/2009/08/31/lol-august-31/#comment-24661 Mitch4 Wed, 02 Sep 2009 11:00:50 +0000 http://comicsidontunderstand.com/wordpress/2009/08/31/lol-august-31/#comment-24661 Can anybody identify the script used in Granny's speech balloon? Can anybody identify the script used in Granny’s speech balloon?

]]> By: Brian Leahy http://comicsidontunderstand.com/wordpress/2009/08/31/lol-august-31/#comment-24651 Brian Leahy Wed, 02 Sep 2009 00:07:58 +0000 http://comicsidontunderstand.com/wordpress/2009/08/31/lol-august-31/#comment-24651 The "gap" is: Granny is making stuff up -- the octopus story isn't remotely logical or plausible. She's either pulling her granddaughter's leg, or has dementia and has begun confabulating. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confabulation (How's THAT for a grim interpretation?) The “gap” is: Granny is making stuff up — the octopus story isn’t remotely logical or plausible.

She’s either pulling her granddaughter’s leg, or has dementia and has begun confabulating.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confabulation

(How’s THAT for a grim interpretation?)

]]> By: Vroshnak http://comicsidontunderstand.com/wordpress/2009/08/31/lol-august-31/#comment-24646 Vroshnak Tue, 01 Sep 2009 17:07:55 +0000 http://comicsidontunderstand.com/wordpress/2009/08/31/lol-august-31/#comment-24646 The phrase "looking guilty" when applied to a cat means that the cat is simply near something broken. The phrase “looking guilty” when applied to a cat means that the cat is simply near something broken.

]]> By: Naomi http://comicsidontunderstand.com/wordpress/2009/08/31/lol-august-31/#comment-24645 Naomi Tue, 01 Sep 2009 17:01:57 +0000 http://comicsidontunderstand.com/wordpress/2009/08/31/lol-august-31/#comment-24645 I think the "gap (that's not language" is the gap between those who think octopus is a reasonable thing to eat on Thanksgiving - or at all - and those who don't. BTW, I didn't even notice that Thanksgiving was being referenced, instead my brain kind of filled in having read that old-country Italians eat a 7-course seafood dinner for Christmas Eve (often including octopus, I believe), whereas Americans typically eat meat or poultry. So I was thinking "Christmas octopus - of course". I think the “gap (that’s not language” is the gap between those who think octopus is a reasonable thing to eat on Thanksgiving - or at all - and those who don’t. BTW, I didn’t even notice that Thanksgiving was being referenced, instead my brain kind of filled in having read that old-country Italians eat a 7-course seafood dinner for Christmas Eve (often including octopus, I believe), whereas Americans typically eat meat or poultry. So I was thinking “Christmas octopus - of course”.

]]> By: chuckers http://comicsidontunderstand.com/wordpress/2009/08/31/lol-august-31/#comment-24636 chuckers Tue, 01 Sep 2009 09:22:32 +0000 http://comicsidontunderstand.com/wordpress/2009/08/31/lol-august-31/#comment-24636 Octopus is an obscure delicacy? Maybe on *YOUR* side of the planet. Octopus is an obscure delicacy?

Maybe on *YOUR* side of the planet.

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