Arlo and Janis by Jimmy Johnson for August 15, 2012
August 14, 2012
August 16, 2012
Transcript:
Gene: It's the strangest thing...
Gene: Everybody is talking normal...
Gene: Then somebody will say, "Little pitchers have big ears..."
Gene: And everybody turns and looks at me!
Our parents used Spanish pig Latin, called “el Fo” add “fo” after every syllable. So “¿Como estas?” Co-fo mo-fo es-fo stas-fo? I didn’t learn it till high school.
Too many cartoonists are catching on to this trick of recycling old strips. It used to be that when a cartooonist went on vacation, he just built up a body of stuff to go out while he was away. Now cartoonists are taking the cheap way out!
I Googled it. It was originally pitchers, from way back. Nope, not baseball, water pictures have big handles…..like ears….Of course when the phrase originated, they didn’t have photographs….Now that we do, I’m changing it to pictures….It makes a lot more sense….
We did the old trick of spelling the word, which worked briefly until one day when my then-four-year-old got wise. I asked if we should go to the P-A-R-K and she went nuts…. “Park! Park! Park!”
mrbribery about 12 years ago
What’s the problem? He’s not gonna blab to anyone without a mouth.
cork about 12 years ago
Our parents used Spanish pig Latin, called “el Fo” add “fo” after every syllable. So “¿Como estas?” Co-fo mo-fo es-fo stas-fo? I didn’t learn it till high school.
toppop52 about 12 years ago
We just spoke English and didn’t say in front of the kids, what we didn’t want repeated, worked like a charm!
rugeirn about 12 years ago
Too many cartoonists are catching on to this trick of recycling old strips. It used to be that when a cartooonist went on vacation, he just built up a body of stuff to go out while he was away. Now cartoonists are taking the cheap way out!
rugeirn about 12 years ago
Brooke McEldowny is makingn a profession of it with Pibgorn these days, and now here we are with it on this strip.
rugeirn about 12 years ago
Brooke McEldowny is makingn a profession of it these days, and now here we are with it on this strip.
rugeirn about 12 years ago
Pibgorn
The Life I Draw Upon about 12 years ago
Knows three languages by the age of six. Not a bad start for a translator.
barrylyn about 12 years ago
Why would they worry? He has no mouth to say anything! :)
Varnes about 12 years ago
I always thought it was “Little PICtures have big ears..”
Varnes about 12 years ago
I Googled it. It was originally pitchers, from way back. Nope, not baseball, water pictures have big handles…..like ears….Of course when the phrase originated, they didn’t have photographs….Now that we do, I’m changing it to pictures….It makes a lot more sense….
mcapone about 12 years ago
We did the old trick of spelling the word, which worked briefly until one day when my then-four-year-old got wise. I asked if we should go to the P-A-R-K and she went nuts…. “Park! Park! Park!”
Gokie5 about 12 years ago
My son-in law learned Hebrew because his parents were using that as their “secret” language.
iced tea about 12 years ago
Kids have big ears and mouths too.
gobblingup Premium Member about 12 years ago
Nope, PITCHERS.
water_moon about 12 years ago
We use code and spell in ASL since our oldest knows what we’re spelling if we have to mention something in front of the kids.
Strod about 12 years ago
I do. And based on the comments of @mhmercer and @lightenup, I bet they care too.