Comics I Don’t Understand

Exclamation of the Week

Cidu Bill on Jan 15th 2010

Filed in 9 Chickweed Lane, Bill Bickel, Brooke McEldowney, comic strips, comics, humor | 27 responses so far

27 Responses to “Exclamation of the Week”

Tim Jan 15th 2010 at 09:22 am 1

If somebody says they’ve been kissed, I don’t know if “where” is the usual first response.

I wonder what the final score was…
Kamino Neko Jan 15th 2010 at 09:36 am 2

I’m guessing Kiesl 1, O’Malley 0.
Dyfsunctional Jan 15th 2010 at 09:52 am 3

Old joke: “Kiss me where it smells!” “You want me to take you to New Jersey?”
AMC Jan 15th 2010 at 10:34 am 4

Suffering wangdoodles!
Frank the curmudgeon Jan 15th 2010 at 11:16 am 5

Cowabunga! Princess Sumerspringwinterfall.
mitch4 Jan 15th 2010 at 11:29 am 6

–And where did he kiss you?
–It was by the canal bank, Father.
firedmyass Jan 15th 2010 at 12:37 pm 7

9CL is grosser than than that Argyle Sweater pit-hair “joke.”
paperboy Jan 15th 2010 at 03:23 pm 8

Great Caeser’s Ghost!
The Bad Seed Jan 15th 2010 at 03:38 pm 9

Great googly-moogly, I have a new favorite exclamation!

As for the rest of that panel, my brain refuses to process anything that Grandma’s saying.
Mark in Boston Jan 15th 2010 at 05:23 pm 10

What part of a woman’s body is her “now”?

There’s this old song, “I Wonder Who’s Kissing Her Now.”

Probably next to her still. “I Love Her Still.”
Chuck Jan 15th 2010 at 05:28 pm 11

My favorite exclamations come form Danny Phantom. The English teacher shouts out book titles appropriate to the situation. For example, when the student body was going crazy and running wild, he shouted “LORD OF THE FLIES!”
turquoise cow Jan 15th 2010 at 07:19 pm 12

yeah, that was a weird exclamation. but this whole story line is kind of weird. what’s up with the daughter being so interested in her mother’s sex life? Most people I know only reluctantly acknowledge that their own existence means their parents must have had sex in the past, and are totally disgusted or made very uncomfortable by any thought of physical affection between the two.

@chuck: I love that show, and that teacher. I never really thought his exclamations were appropriate to the situation, but then I never really thought about the situation, I just laughed at the fact that he was shouting them.
Harold Jan 15th 2010 at 08:32 pm 13

@turquoise cow: All of the women in this comic are sex-crazed nymphomaniacs.
Chuck Jan 15th 2010 at 09:31 pm 14

@turquoise cow, I’ve always thought people being disgusted by the idea of their parents having sex was rather silly, though I agree it would be weird to actually ask much about it.

Now TEENAGERS having sex. THAT disgusts me. It’s a sick world we live in. SICK I TELL YOU.
mitch4 Jan 15th 2010 at 10:41 pm 15

Mark — The woman was shot yesterday, and the bullet is lodged in her yet.
Frank the curmudgeon Jan 15th 2010 at 11:12 pm 16

@Mark & Mich So I said to my one legged wife,”Peg”. Non seqitor but just as lame.
turquoise cow Jan 15th 2010 at 11:55 pm 17

@Harold, yeah I think all the *people* in this strip are sex-crazed. but about their *parents*? that seems odd.

To be honest, I’m perfectly okay with the IDEA of my parents having sex. It kind of wigs me out a little if i think about it long enough(as does thinking about other combinations of people having sex, to be honest), but I’m okay with it. Maybe it’s the way I was raised, though, but I have not ever and probably will not ever ask my mother where it was that my father kissed her (or any previous boyfriends).

Then again, I probably wouldn’t ask too many people, other than very close friends, about the details of where they were kissed. So, maybe that’s just me. ::shrug::
Arthur Jan 16th 2010 at 12:17 am 18

@turquoise cow: It started with the daughter being surprised that the mother
had anything good to say about the father. It gradually drifted into steamier
things (as you might expect from 9CL). It may be that the story was compelling
enough for the daughter that she temporarily forgot it was her mother telling
the story about herself.

Plus, as has been pointed out, “[a]ll of the women in this comic are sex-crazed
nymphomaniacs.”
Terry Jan 16th 2010 at 11:31 am 19

I guess we’re to assume this is leading up to a revelation about Juliette’s father, but isn’t the time frame off? When is the flashback taking place? The war appears to still be on, so no later than 1945. If Juliette was conceived sometime during this story, she’d have been born in 1946 at the latest. Which would make her at least 62 today. She doesn’t look 62. And she has a daughter in her early 20s?
Mark M Jan 16th 2010 at 01:43 pm 20

Shouldn’t it be Holy Howdy Doody? As it is, it sounds like she is saying hi to a Reverend Doody.
Elyrest Jan 16th 2010 at 02:32 pm 21

Mark M (20) - How about Holy Moly Howdy Doody? That sounds good to me.
Craig Jan 16th 2010 at 04:10 pm 22

This discussion reminds of this quote:

(and sorry to those offended)

“Now, no-one likes the idea of their mother having sexual intercourse.
But to start a global religion based on the idea that she never did……………”
Mark in Boston Jan 16th 2010 at 04:52 pm 23

Is that Robin the Boy Wonder in drag? “Holy Kleenex, Batman! It was right under our nose and we blew it!”
turquoise cow Jan 16th 2010 at 10:46 pm 24

@ Terry: There’s no guarantee of that so far. Grandma hasn’t admitted that any of the men were Juliette’s father, and even if they are, there’s also no guarantee that she was conceived during the war.

Come to think of it, the father figure being absent always bugged me in this strip. I recall a few strips, long ago, in which Edda went to visit her father, or Juliette spoke to him on the phone or something, but he was never seen and rarely mentioned. I assumed that Grandma had moved in after her husband had died or something like that, but now it appears that sexual promiscuity (or lack of commitment) runs in the family. With a record like that, it seems likely that Amos will be killed/discarded not long after he fathers his own child.
Cidu Bill Jan 16th 2010 at 10:50 pm 25

I always assumed Granny was a widow, I don’t think we ever saw Juliette (who was divorced) involved with any men other than the stuffy guy she eventually married, and Edda certainly didn’t become sexually involved very young. This hardly sounds like promiscuity.
David A. Rooney Jan 18th 2010 at 04:51 pm 26

Craig - actually, Parthenogenesis (reproduction without sexual intercourse) is possible, but it results in female offspring. Which would mean Jesus was a transvestite . . . uh, oh. Does having that thought mean I’m going somewhere in a hand-basket?
Morris Keesan Jan 18th 2010 at 10:43 pm 27

#20 Mark M, the “Holy” in this case is an infix intensifier, so the construction is similar to the phrase
“un-f***ing-believable”, or similar usages.