FoxTrot Classics by Bill Amend for July 31, 2013

Napoleon was actually about average in height for his time.

shoulda left it on the hat, less pain for you.

Like trying to get rid of a burr. No matter how you touch it, it sticks to you…

the smell of wet dog.

Just went to check if Thomas Crapper had ever been knighted. Now there would be a Monty Python sketch. Anyway, turns out that he didn’t invent a flush toilet. Oh well, another great story flushed.

Yep, for a Brit there is a double pun here

That’s my mother-in-law’s chihuahua! Nasty little beast! Are all chihuahuas that way, yappie, furtive and down right mean?

Considering “loo” is derived from the French “l’eau” (water) isn’t Waterloo redundant?

This isn’t going to end well.

Come now MagicFan. Everyone knows that Napoleon had his last disaster at Waterloo.

Thank you for the history. I always assumed it was something interesting like that. Whenever I get too wistful for the “good old days” I think about the “gardez l’eau” scenario among others. And I LOVE your avatar; absolutely beautiful!