Over the Hedge by T Lewis and Michael Fry for December 18, 2022

Chant it with me, everybody! VER-NAY! VER-NAY! VER-NAY!

Meh . . . sounds like Béarnaise

Might as well be turtle soup

Some might say that he unconsciously wants to sound/be more like someone else he knows: Ver-nay – Arr-jay

Isn’t ver-nay “never” in Pig Latin?

He has a strange Vern-acular.

Or maybe you just want to feel superior to everyone?

Not nice ganging up on your buddy and hurting his feelings.

And what, exactly, were you planning on doing for those5 minutes?

Verne’s as weird as Kanye West.

5 minutes? That only took a minute to read…

It seemed like a good idea at the time.

Sounds like a grape variety. “Please bring me a glass of Pinot Ver-nay”.

S/He/They identifies as a pretentious prig, and demands to be treated as one/two/many.

I thought a turtle named Verne was pretty rare to begin with.

Ver – Nay are you now related to Count De Mon- Nay ?

Reminds me a lot of the Washington casino spelled ilani — which, in their ads, pronounces it “Ay lan Ay” .

Makes me think of Ava DuVernay.

Rather like the character “Hyacinth Bucket” on the show “Keeping Up Appearances,” who pronounced her last name as “Bouquet” – or, for that matter, Stephen Colbert, whose last name changed from being pronounced as it is spelled to the current “Colbair.”

The Spanish word for Friday is “Viernes” which is.. kinda similar

Maybe he just read Robinson Crusoe en español