Fred Basset by Alex Graham for May 28, 2011

Um…..

Here’s where I have no comment. I’m actually biting my tongue.

Well…

Do you suppose Alex doesn’t know the slang meaning of “pecker?” This comic is hard on. ouch

hmmmm…nope, can’t say it here!

In England that is a saying to mean Keep cheerful/ hopeful/optimistic.

finally a truly funny Fred Basset instead of a cute “play on words” or pithy observational comment….

It must be lovely being british.

Well, I never——-

It’s funnier if you cover the right half of the last panel. ;-)

In England, pecker=chin. In America.. a different body part.

Mind you, the reverse is also true. A perfectly harmless American term can also be a curse word in Britain

Some years ago, I was in the Patagonia store in Ventura Californina, shopping for trout flies. After finding what I wanted, I took them up to the counter to pay for them. On that particular day, an English chap was working the register. “What kind of flies are those?” He asked me, pointing to my selection.And I answered, truthfully, and in all innocence “Woolly Buggers.”

He almost threw a conniption. And that was when I learned that ‘Bugger’ in English parlance is a verb, not a noun. ( The rest of it, you can guess. ).

Better spruce up, Woody, if that tree is an ash, I hear they are poplar…..☺

This one is priceless! Had to come here to read the comments when I saw the strip! LOL! I doubt Alex meant it that way, but he sure got some mileage out of it!

Thanks, Francis. I never knew that. And when I googled it for confirmation, the first hit was for someone in China named Pecker Chin.

America and England two countries separated by a common language.

There’s a world of difference between the meaning of “fanny” (as a body part) on this side of the Atlantic and the other.

Ask the gal at the white board if she has a rubber. You’ll get a different reaction from the US gal vs the UK gal! LOL

“Naughty Bits”: Fred…“Naughty bits”..’’And what was the name of that asian guy who sold his copiers using his own name?…Oh yeah..“Wang”..whoo-eee..

Well, they call a pack of cigarettes in England fags! You’d never know we both speak the same language.

At the CDC in Atlanta, several years ago, the common computer system was WANG. A British efficiency expert came to tour the place and then had a Q and A session. He asked what were the most common work problems encountered. One lady, in all seriousness, said that there was never enough Wang time. Long pause, and then the statement from this very proper British fellow.

I think we’re separated by a common slang. I don’t think the Brits use that expression as we do. After all, Fred is a family strip.

Ah, Croth hit it. Alex was British. He died 20 years ago. So……be cheerful.