One Big Happy by Rick Detorie for July 15, 2011

And no green stamps either, Grandpa.

True. Hyacinth would never buy an ordinary vase.

As per yesterday: cute translation, Tex. The instructor at a Goetha Instatut in Germany called a pen a Kulischreiben. Unless I heard him incorrectly. Maybe it was a brand. One of my German books calls a pen a Kuli. Adolf is a noble wolf. But today: Look at the kid looking in the window in the background of the last panel. :)

I was taught a pen is a Kugelschreiber (in German the first letters of all nouns are uppercase, for those playing along at home), at least if it was a ball-point pen.Not sure what the Germans would call a fountain pen.

Fountain pen, or dip pen, is “Federhalter” im Deutsch.

Isn’t a “kugelschreiber” a “ball-[point]-pen”?kugel = “ball” and schreiber = “pen”.

This reminds me, for some reason, of a monk who once said about a certain monastery: “They have many English accents there. Some are even authentic.”

How is “The pen is mightier than the sword” translated ? Incidentally, the original Bazooka was a harmless musical instrument.

you say tomato, I say tomahto. ;)

Good one, and I enjoy the current strip too.