Frazz: Look at this caterpillar hanging upside down. He's been doing it all day.
Miss Plainwell: Go ahead. Get it* over with.
Frazz: That is one inveterate inverted invertebrate.
Caption: (*i.e., THE INEVITABLE)
He is friends with the pun master – Pastis. Since he makes fun of Jeff the cyclist in his strip, I believe he is referencing Pearls Before Swine’s terrible/wonderful puns in the final panel. Or not. :)
dgmillerBig Julie should have known Gaul was in more than three parts then, two of which he had in his own army. Balderic slingers were Gauls as were those and what is now central Turkey – Galacia. He would also have known about, but not attempted to conquer – Galicia in the lower Danube valley.
She says “Go ahead, get it over with” because she already knows Frazz has an awful pun loaded up to follow that off-hand observation?? (I guess the implication is she knows him SO well, but I’m not buying it.)
TheSkulker over 8 years ago
She knows him all too well!
Lyons Group, Inc. over 8 years ago
For those of you who don’t what “i.e” means, it’s “id est”, a Latin catchphrase for “That is”.
Varnes over 8 years ago
Thanks, Josh…Seriously, I didn’t know the Latin…
James Henry over 8 years ago
@Varnes, for your reading pleasure.. http://theoatmeal.com/comics/ie
Happy, happy, happy!!! Premium Member over 8 years ago
Thats terrible!Do it again!
Rose Madder Premium Member over 8 years ago
He is friends with the pun master – Pastis. Since he makes fun of Jeff the cyclist in his strip, I believe he is referencing Pearls Before Swine’s terrible/wonderful puns in the final panel. Or not. :)
dog545 over 8 years ago
Been hanging out too much with Stephan Patsis
Pipe Tobacco Premium Member over 8 years ago
Richard….. really? Hmm. Do you know what the Brit Govt is proposing in their places?
gordol over 8 years ago
You’ve been hanging out with Pastis from Pearls Before Swine, haven’t you?
aunt granny over 8 years ago
Somebody needs to tell the British government that it’s the twenty-first century already.
hippogriff over 8 years ago
dgmillerBig Julie should have known Gaul was in more than three parts then, two of which he had in his own army. Balderic slingers were Gauls as were those and what is now central Turkey – Galacia. He would also have known about, but not attempted to conquer – Galicia in the lower Danube valley.
rfeinberg over 8 years ago
She says “Go ahead, get it over with” because she already knows Frazz has an awful pun loaded up to follow that off-hand observation?? (I guess the implication is she knows him SO well, but I’m not buying it.)