Get Fuzzy by Darby Conley for November 13, 2012
Transcript:
Bucky: I've never heard of this dog newspaper you say you're writing for. Satchel: The daily crate liner? It's been around a long time. OF course, it's not daily anymore. Bucky: How often is it printed? Satchel: Annually. Unless we forget, then it's semi-annual. But we slept through last year's date, and the year before that, Moby's printer was out of ink... So we print it every four years. What do you call that? Bucky: An election ballet.
hometownk Premium Member about 12 years ago
Well said Bucky.
rogcbrand about 12 years ago
Going to a BALLET for the election?
Arianne about 12 years ago
They’ll get around to it bi and bi…
orinoco womble about 12 years ago
Ballot, Conley. Ballet is dancing.
Russell Sketchley Premium Member about 12 years ago
Semi-annual would be twice a year, so if they forget to do it annually it would be bi-annual, meaning once every two years. Nit-picky grammar aside, great strip!
Trilobyte Premium Member about 12 years ago
I don’t think that a Satchel “comment” is the same thing as a Darby “error.”
David Wolfson Premium Member about 12 years ago
I don’t know… they look like mistakes to me. Where’s his editor????
Linda Pearson about 12 years ago
Ballet is the correct answer. They wer dancing around on when to publish the paper. I dont believe it had anything to do with a ballot. The election is over.
Sultan Rahi about 12 years ago
Sounds funnier like that; I don’t think that’s a mistake (the ballet).
What does wiktionary say:1. A classical form of dance.2. A theatrical presentation of such dancing, usually with music, sometimes in the form of a story.
Election ballot (or electoral circus, to be more accurate) has the same definition if you change “dance” and “dancing” with “democracy”.
SwimsWithSharks about 12 years ago
Quadranal.
dbmeyer99 about 12 years ago
REALLY!?! You all knew exactly what Darby meant or nobody would be trying to correct him. Who cares if it’s ballet or ballot or how many times a fictional paper gets printed. It’s a comic strip, not instructions for brain surgery. Stop being so critical.
IvaJean about 12 years ago
Shouldn’t that be BALLOT, not BALLET?? I always enjoy Satchel!
fma about 12 years ago
Don’t we all read GET FUZZY to enjoy the mangled language??
Hoodude about 12 years ago
Tow and heals
falstaff2 about 12 years ago
Darby doesn’t make mistakes -Satchel and Bucky often mispronounce something so stop nitpicking and enjoy! For Wiwo, Gooselou,Cooncat, Russell and Orinoco. Satchel doesn’t know the difference between semi-annual and bi-annual and Bucky thinks ballet and ballot are the same things.
bigblaster about 12 years ago
I think “Election Ballet” opened for “Spandau Ballot,” didn’t they?
TEAMSATCHEL1 about 12 years ago
So if it an election ballet. I am dancing my vote for Satchel!!!!!
Thehag about 12 years ago
Maybe the ‘mistakes’ are for commenter entertaintment. Give you something to yak about.
Kev_a_Swing_Dancer Premium Member about 12 years ago
@ailurophile17It’d have to be Chinese or similar. They’re the ones that don’t have the american ‘r’. The Japanese language doesn’t have the ‘L’ sound (despite their American automobile brands and American-born daughter names).
brutusbuckeye42 about 12 years ago
According to Webster online, both semi-annual and bi-annual mean the same thing, i.e., twice a year. It may have different usage outside the states. The correct term for once every two years is biennial and every four years is quadrennial.
heyeron about 12 years ago
are you folks really analyzing what a dog and cat are saying in a comic strip? especially a dog and cat who never use words correctly? if dogs and cats really could speak, do you think they would have a firm grasp on the english language?
Manxmax about 12 years ago
O M frikin’ GOD. Everything from “I told you so’s” to “naivity” that Mr. Conley is illiterate, to pompous “know it alls”. I like how the puppy dog and the kitty cat are talking about stuff and things and how their funny expressions make me laugh when they do so. Serenity now…serenity NOW!
A.Ficionada about 12 years ago
Sorry, I’ll apologize in advance for being sensitive to word usage- semiannually means every 6 months (AKA 1/2 year) and biannually would mean every 2 years. OK, I feel better now.
Hunter7 about 12 years ago
with Bucky…. Ballet is the correct word. The words were dancing. Bucky thinks the word is ballet, not ballot. or…. fill in your own version.and I don’t care that the dog got the sequence wrong. It doesn’t matter. Its Satchel and he’s funny when he’s trying to explain something to Bucky.
le-roy almost 12 years ago
Ballet – once every four years is about right for me, if not TOO often.