Doonesbury by Garry Trudeau for December 20, 2016
December 19, 2016
December 21, 2016
Transcript:
Zonker: Can you stand it, friends/ The House Of Lords summoning me for duty? I mean, how many former surfers can make that claim? Is the English-speaking world great or what? One of my colleagues, The Duke Of Punts-On-Thames, even sent me my regalia! Talk about the red carpet treatment! J.J.: Speaking of which, where're you staying? Zonker: I'm crashing at his castle. Is this great? Mike: It's you, your dudeship.
BE THIS GUY almost 8 years ago
Zonker, a jet-setting free loader.
Renatus Profuturus Frigeridus Premium Member almost 8 years ago
There is a particular word in Italian for Zonker stay at other people home : “Scroccone”
ErpinBurp almost 8 years ago
Sounds better than its English equivalent, “scrounger.”
Linguist almost 8 years ago
Nothin’ like crashin’ at the castle !
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Reminds me of a stanza from Jimmy Buffet’s Gypsies in the Palace…
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We’re gypsies in the palace, he’s left us here alone
The order of the sleepless knights will now assume the throne
We ain’t got no money, we ain’t got no right
But we’re gypsies in the palace, we got it all tonight
jakko1 almost 8 years ago
I like the wig. Make it in orange and the Donald could have an optional “look.”
puffyshirt almost 8 years ago
The proto-Lebowski.
sandflea almost 8 years ago
The House of Lords will soon be saying, “Oh, Lord, what have we done?”
David Huie Green LoveJoyAndPeace almost 8 years ago
Linguist said,
@Night-Gaunt49
“We once had this long discussion about whether the Rom and the Traveling People weren’t somehow related – the lifestyle, the bad reputation, the close knit families, even many of the customs were similar.”
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Linguistically (thus right down your alley), the Roma are kin to Celts and people of the Indus Valley, thus to me with my Welsh, Irish and Scot ancestors.
(Louis L’Amour even touched on it with his Tinker in the Sackett novels even though the linguistic work hadn’t been done at the time.)
tedmax almost 8 years ago
jackreacher’ound.