Comments on: LOL-January 18

By: Brian Leahy

Brian Leahy — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 02:18:35 +0000

Strip 4 could use one more panel:

” ‘Waste’ ?? Here me thought it was, ‘Mind is terrible thing to TASTE…’ “

By: Father Bruno Di Frocco

Father Bruno Di Frocco — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 02:29:29 +0000

Surely we can’t overlook the favorite jabs of those in Ontario: the Newfie joke.

By: mkilby

mkilby — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 22:34:38 +0000

@ 51 - And in Germany, those same jokes normally feature ‘East Frisians’, who come from the coastal region of Germany bordering the Netherlands.

By: Charlene

Charlene — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 17:48:11 +0000

As an aside, did you know that all the American Polish jokes were told up here as Ukrainian jokes?

By: docdonn

docdonn — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 23:46:45 +0000

re: cousins… he asked for a kiss, she refused….”kissin cousins”?

By: DPWally

DPWally — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 23:39:00 +0000

MK#36: One of my friends in college tried “gullible is not in the dictionary”. Friend #2 picked up my huge collegiate dictionary, looked through, and exclaimed “you’re right!” Friend #1 grabbed the dictionary to confirm and fell for his own joke.

By: lynn

lynn — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 17:01:59 +0000

We never say “roll down”- We say “open” and “close,” as in, “Kids, stop opening and closing the windows - we’re on the highway.”

My daughter’s push button toy cell phone plays recorded messages, one of which tells her to “dial” a number. She asked me what “dial” meant.

By: John Small Berries

John Small Berries — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 16:21:31 +0000

Oh, I see. So you say “roll down” only when referring to non-automatic windows. And what do you say for automatic ones?

What I mean is, the term “roll down” is not obsolete, and neither is the hand gesture, because there is still a large number of vehicles extant to which the phrase and the gesture are applicable. The method of operating of a manual car window still enjoys wide enough currency that the concept is not confusing even to people with automatic windows. It’s not like “Hey, people stopped opening car windows with a hand crank fifty years ago, so why do we still use this phrase?”

By: Dan

Dan — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 15:19:21 +0000

chuckers: ohh..

By: Molly J

Molly J — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 14:29:14 +0000

Achh, of course, it would be by counting the actresses leaping over the fence!

Well, Mitch, I suppose that image might lead to your prior suggestion…