Phoebe and Her Unicorn by Dana Simpson for October 23, 2013
Transcript:
Marigold: It is as I feared. There is magical trickery around. We must locate your friend Dakota immediately! Phoebe: She isn't my friend. She's sort of more of a ... fremeny. Marigold Regardless. Phoebe: And that has five letters from "enemy," which is most of the word, so... Marigold: REGARDLESS.
Orion-13 about 11 years ago
LOVE the change in expressions from panel 3 to 4…LOL
REGARDLESS….
Love it!
Orion
Destiny23 about 11 years ago
Uh oh, Dakota’s hair finally took over!
blackshire about 11 years ago
I LOVE Marigold’s sideward glance in the last panel!
Weapon Brown about 11 years ago
Thank goodness she didn’t say “irregardless”.
Q4horse about 11 years ago
Trickery is fun. It is that time of year after all (Halloween). Just let it play out.
Dampwaffle about 11 years ago
I get just as annoyed as the unicorn does with stupid made-up words like “frenemies”… and while the grammar police are out in full force “Partnered” is NOT a word, and “fund-raising” is a hyphenated compound word, not a single word. Dammit, I had to have all this grammar and spelling pounded into me back in the day, so the rest of you can bloody well learn it, too! grump grump grump
Neo Stryder about 11 years ago
Are you more worried that everyone thinks that Dakota is your friend in place than maybe all existance could be under the menace of magic hair?
HopeFox about 11 years ago
Is Marigold reminding Phoebe of the importance of thinking about other people? Weird.
Hag5000 about 11 years ago
Keep your friends close and your frenemies closer.
sjsczurek about 11 years ago
Attack of the killer tresses?
Comic Minister Premium Member about 11 years ago
I see.
Happy, happy, happy!!! Premium Member about 11 years ago
Enemend?
dogday Premium Member about 11 years ago
My imagination or is the “Regardless” a different accent for Marigold?
Mary McNeil Premium Member about 11 years ago
Doesn’t it have 6 letters from enemy?
John W Kennedy Premium Member about 11 years ago
”Partner” has been used as a verb at least since Shakespeare did so in “Cymbeline”, and any professional will tell you that such quarrels as “fund-raising” vs. “fundraising” are purely a matter of fashion, habit, and institutional consistency. Neither one is “right” or “wrong” in the absolute; either one might be mandated by some particular manual of style.
John W Kennedy Premium Member about 11 years ago
As to “frenemy”, it is a portmanteau word (an expression that, in itself, has demonstrated its usefulness by outliving its original metaphor), and, as such, hallowed by no less a literary authority than Lewis Carroll, himself. But the true test of the right of a word to exist is its usefulness, and there "frenemy” clearly succeeds, for there is no prior English word or brief idiom covering the same semantic territory.
By the way, the first known printed use of “frenemy” is from 1953.
nerdhoof about 11 years ago
Frenemy seems like a word James Joyce could have invented, but he died in 1941.
will_ya_001 over 5 years ago
‘5 letters of ’enemy’, and that’s most of the word..’no, thats all of the word
jerrica.benton333 almost 2 years ago
“froe” is the preferred nomenclature.
(Nice and balanced, with respect to letter-havingness)