The Argyle Sweater by Scott Hilburn for September 19, 2017

What a friend we habe in cheeses?

What a friend we have in cheeses?

Praise Cheeses, holey be thy Swiss!

A-mazing grace, how sweet the sound

That stopped a thief like thee.

Dids’t thou know ’tis Talk Like a Pirate Day?

Cheddar me timbers!

I see I wasn’t the first person to notice the store name. I like mondegreens, so I posted this comic in my grammar blog. With attribution and a link, of course. It’ll appear on Sept 22. writing-rag.com if you want to check.

when they catch shoplifters they beat the becheeses out of them…

Sure it eliminates shoplifting, but how’s business since the maze’s installation?

Blessed are the cheese-makers.

I’m Bleu… Can’t think of an appropriate humorous comment… Forgive me? That’s gouda you…

Have you accepted cheeses into your life?

It is the most exclusive place to eat in ratdom. Only the brightest rats get in.

JP Steve… Exactly what I was about to say!

Except that wouldn’t be as funny to people who don’t know who Robert Newton was….

…even though his pirate accent, borrowed from recent ancestors, became famous in his many roles in the genre, and then the standard for every bad imitation of a pirate in films.

So today should actually be called Talk Like a Cheesy and Comedic Imitation of a Stereotypical Movie Pirate Day….

But that’s a bit too long.