FoxTrot by Bill Amend for January 23, 1995
January 21, 1995
January 24, 1995
Transcript:
Roger: Jason must have some big homework assignment due tomorrow. Andy: Why do you say that? Roger: He's had his nose buried in either a dictionary or a thesaurus for most of the evening. I mean, I can't imagine a normal kid just doing that for fun. Andy: The key word, Roger, is "NORMAL" Jason: Has anyone ever told you that your corpulence is downright Brobdingnagian?
Quincy is my Spirit Animal about 6 years ago
Your obesity is gigantic
HaVoc over 3 years ago
Cartoonist sets land speed record?
DM9001 over 3 years ago
Apparently, “brodingnagian” is a term from Gulliver’s Travels.
phoenixnyc over 3 years ago
Jason is absolutely normal – for a ten-year-old boy with an older sister.
phoenixnyc over 3 years ago
The late, great Richard Armour used to pick a random page in the dictionary to find a word he’d never heard before—for example, “bedrip” and “slubberdegullion” (no matter what GoComics’ spellchecker says, those are actual words).
Official Foxtrot Page about 2 years ago
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