Daddy's Home by Tony Rubino and Gary Markstein for December 30, 2016

oh, good grief (say, what is considered bad grief?)

Doesn’t everyone have bad underwear? You know for date night.

Tony asked, about 5 hours ago

Under where? Been saving that.

Huh?

So, when someone puts his good clothes on for a special occasion (except for a Jewish funeral, of course), the rest of his wardrobe is crap?

Those are the not-so-good clothes, but they are not bad automatically!

Except for that worn-out jacket and that horrible Christmas-sweater,

And for Peg – I swear she has nothing to wear anyway.

It’s freezing outside here and he stands there dripping wet third day in a row!

What happened to bathrobes?

You know, Tony…..

Under there.

Which is why they used to be called “unmentionables.”

Meanwhile….

Semper ubi sub ubi.

Tigressy…thanks for the credit…

but it’s an old old schoolboy joke.

It actually translates to “Always where under where” …. which only sounds like underwear in English.

The “sentence” is meaningless in Latin, but Google Translate must be in on the joke.

I don’t know my Latin….

just the usual well-worn phrases, and a couple of quips.

In my day, you usually had to study one language in US high schools, for only two to four years…

and two to four years of the same or another language in college…

and only for a few hours a week.

Most high schools offered a choice of Latin, French, German, or Spanish,

Nowadays there is a greater variety offered…. but Latin is rarely included.

I took about six years of French, altogether

Compared to Europe, where countries are close together,

the US is vast, and physically rather isolated.

40 or 50 years ago, possibly except for Spanish, most people never heard or used whatever language they studied,

and it was, sadly, soon forgotten.

I enjoyed French, so have practiced and retained some…

but school was a million years ago, and I don’t get many opportunities to speak it.

Shoulda left that one in the safe.

Peter should well ask why he has bad underwear. I mean after all, Peg throws out all his comfortable, well broken in, underwear. And he is too much of a gentleman to mention those crotchless unmentionables that she has in the drawer (tee hee), You know the ones she says are only for “special Occasions” ( and she uses the air quotes when she says that)

“Tony”… Under There!!! Its under all the other clothes in the hamper!!! She forgot to wash them!!! Or he did!!!

I never want to go under there again.

most of us have “wash day” underwear, the stretched out stuff that has NO support that you wear so you can make sure all the good stuff gets washed. So I would say his “good” underwear is in the dryer. lol

If she’s not going to help, then she must prefer him as is.

@Tony:

Under the spreading chestnut tree, where the village smithy stands! And it “stands” to reason that I’ll now ask today’s…

Second “Daddy’s Home” Question:

What are you thinking right now?

Always wear good underwear when you leave the house….you never know who’s going to see it!

I’ll stick to no underwear, thank you.

It’s probably still under the Christmas tree. Look for the gift box it came in.