Comments on: Sal Biondo: ”What are you staring at?” “Your camel toe.”

By: Steve

Steve — Sun, 18 Jul 2010 04:09:02 +0000

Lynn Johnston, before she became a cartoonist, was a medical illustrator.

So, maybe it’s not sloppy cartooning?

By: paperboy

paperboy — Tue, 06 Jul 2010 21:36:41 +0000

Dan#22, you and Heather D#8 call it “sloppy” artwork, but you’re both wrong. The art is loose, but not sloppy. There’s two lines in the groin area of her shorts in panel#1; both are due to the position of her legs while walking. She’s not in my top 30 of favorite comic-strip illustrators, but she’s not “sloppy”.

By: Dan

Dan — Tue, 06 Jul 2010 19:36:23 +0000

Well, I *have* heard the expression “those pants are so tight, you can read her lips” …

Anyway, ITA - this is just really sloppy artwork, a hallmark of FBoFW.

By: Keera

Keera — Sun, 04 Jul 2010 18:59:00 +0000

Therese @20, LOL! I think a good Norwegian equivalent would be golf pants, since “club” and “balls” have a dirty and male meaning in that language.

By: Therese

Therese — Sun, 04 Jul 2010 18:49:00 +0000

Keera (12)

It’s “mumble pants” (mummelbyxor) in Swedish, because you can see the lips moving, but you can’t hear a word they’re saying. The male version is “woodcraft pants” (Mullebyxor), because you can see both wood and stones.

By: Detcord

Detcord — Sun, 04 Jul 2010 08:41:53 +0000

Sal (18)

I thought I’d seen it all… I have now.

By: Sal

Sal — Sun, 04 Jul 2010 03:27:05 +0000

Detcord, you have never listened to Bob And Tom the radio guys and this song

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZBIGwtyqBhA

By: Detcord

Detcord — Fri, 02 Jul 2010 07:31:10 +0000

Heather D (16)

“…we pianists will say “soft pedal” vernacularly…”. I’ll say. We non-musically gifted (and by we I mean me) will say “soft pedal”, intending to mean “play down” or “obscure”. I had no idea of the origin of this phrase. I blame it on my tin ear.

The things I learn on this site!

By: Heather D

Heather D — Thu, 01 Jul 2010 22:17:35 +0000

Mark in Boston #15 — Really, “soft pedal” is no more accurate than “loud pedal”. It’s the “una corda pedal” — because, at least on a grand, the action shifts over so that the strings only hit one string per note instead of all 3. Well, in fact, on most modern pianos the u.c. gives you 2 strings, not 1, but that was the original derivation of the term.

I think it’s true enough that we pianists will say “soft pedal” vernacularly more than we use “loud pedal” — that’s really something only little kids would say. But it’s the same sort of word problem. The u.c. pedal’s purpose is NOT to make a softer (ie, quieter) sound. It’s to change the tone, in part by hitting a different number of strings, but also in large part due to the hammers striking the strings with a different part of the felt, where it is less compressed due to less frequent hitting.

But yeah, “song” bugs me. “Lieder ohne Wörter” — “Songs Without Words” — you could blame Mendelssohn, though I’d argue the concept had been used before, just not NAMED as such. Anyway, he was using it as a metaphor, not literally.

By: Mark in Boston

Mark in Boston — Thu, 01 Jul 2010 21:18:05 +0000

someone else #7 : There are plenty of words like that. “Song” for instance when applied to an instrumental piece. It’s not a song unless someone sings it. (Blame Mendelssohn for this one I guess.) “Loud pedal” on a piano. There is no “loud pedal”. If you’re a pianist the pedals from left to right are the soft pedal, the sustaining pedal and the damper pedal; if you’re a piano tuner they are the shift pedal, the sostenuto pedal and the sustaining pedal.