Mother Goose and Grimm by Mike Peters for October 26, 2023

Egyptian scrabble.

There’s Nefertiti when you need it.

That’s okay. Maybe you can build off of a vowel or the word that’s already on the board. If you can’t find anywhere you can do that, you can turn in (some or all of) your tiles and get (some or all) new ones – hopefully some vowels.

Ok, am I missing something? What does this have to do with Mother Goose &Grimm?

“Holy Isis!” sounds like something a superhero named AspMan would say.

Having learned about the Egyptian alphabet when we were learning about Egypt, I get the joke.

Egyptian hieroglyphs and the Semitic abjads contain no vowels. If you’re out of consonants, you’re out of letters!

Where’s Vanna when you need her?

Of course they’re in profile despite the position of the board.

Take out the color and you got a great kids coloring pix…

He’s bluffing. The Egyptians never invented verbs.

This is funny for those who know hieroglyphics.

Haha! (＾▽＾)