JumpStart by Robb Armstrong for January 13, 2016

A habit learned at an early age

She threw him out, and the look on his face… Okay, that was just wrong. Too funny, but just wrong….LOL

Yep, that’s Yolanda.^_^

Love the intercultural touch of the strip these days, but the syndicate is transliterating the Spanish. The Hartford Courant has little Yolanda saying “Quiero vivar. . .”, the translation of"Aha! So you CAN speak!" as "Aha! Para que pueda hablar! and “muñeco de nieve” as mun̈eco de nieve." What gives? or in the spirit of the week’s strip: ¿qué pasa?

HA! I was a day off.

I love this sequence and the payoff here is gold.

somebody said yesterday this fellow looks like Joe Cobb — I beg to differ.check the noses, entirely different

That’s funny! A happy little girl quick to throw someone out.

Aaand of course that’s the way to encourage a kid to keep talking.Guys, this is not how you deal with a child who doesn’t talk.That said, the punchline made me laugh. :)

And her last name is Hope…

So Esperanza means Hope? I knew that L’Esperance is French for The Hope. About 30 years ago, L’Esperance quintuplets were born, with the headline, “It’s a boy! And four girls!”

Not sure if Esperanza is her last name. Remember that in Spanish speaking countries, people tend to have four names, and use both their parents’ last names. So Ruiz may still be the one she uses as a surname.

Okay, I laughed at work and now people here know I’m not doing work!

She started young! (I wonder if this is why she objects to the idea of being a commissioner.)