B.C. by Mastroianni and Hart for May 25, 2020

It’s amazing how stubbing a toe stimulates creative vocabulary.

That’s roughly how he lost the LAST leg.

A real caveman dictionary would be a collection of drawings

I feel for him. Never bothered with curses, though. A scream of pain always seemed appropriate.

Sometimes, if I’m taken by surprise, I might swear in English, other times in French, even in Yiddish… I wonder how my brain selects which language to use?

Just in time, as this strip is now in color!

Wow I never even thought that before, but when you come to think about it stub really is very colorful.

How do we know the word is colorful if his face doesn’t change its color?

good thing there are no kids around, you would have to keep the dictionary away from them!

Webster’s dictionary is now adding trending words to the pages…whodathunk?

“Grawlix!”

How lucky can he get? He hit the toe and not the peg-leg. If he bought a suit with two pair of pants, he would spill spaghetti sauce on the coat.

A really good Anglo-Saxon incantation, shouted loudly and frequently, can turn the air blue around the injury and help take the sting out of the event. But that’s just my choice. Other linguistic remedies also apply.

Well, We’ll never know.

The artist declined to show the “word.”

Who decides that some words are bad and others are OK?

Add it in the dictionary as a stub.

The origin of the F-bomb.

Pain and sex can cause the most interesting alterations in the human lexicon. Ironic, that.

As the product of a childhood in that big New York city at the mouth of the Hudson River I have picked up plenty of colorful swear words from the many immigrant communities which surrounded us all. English, Spanish, Yiddish, Sicilian, Italian, French, Cantonese, Russian, Greek, Slavic; any of these might come out of my mouth when called for. I don’t consciously choose. Naturally, English, Spanish, and Yiddish trip from my tongue, but if it feels “right”, I’ll say it.

A digital rock finder.

And the color is probably blue… ☺

Try gout, way worse.

“ Well, double dumb ass on you!”

“ What’s that, Captain?”

“That is called a colorful metaphor, Spock”

Since this is the post apocalyptic future it is an old word.

Swearing should be like a fine wine, it should only be uncorked on a special occasion, and then only shared with the right group of people.