Frazz by Jef Mallett for February 14, 2012

We’re gonna have busketti and hangubers on Valentime’s!

hide the aminals!

I think I’ll have a sangwich…

I know a grand old lady well into her 90’s who pronounces the word recipe as “ra-ceep.” It’s very endearing.

Don’t forget to warsh your hands!

My youngest once told my oldest that she needed to turn off the light because she’s wasting “wectifity”. We’ve used it ever since.

or as my sister used to sing the old Beatles tune, “The girl with colitis goes by”.

Do you mind if I axe you a question? Does anyone know where I might get an expescially good cup of expresso?

My wife used to be fond of that Bob Dillon song that went: “Play, Lady, play, play in my big brass band”

I knew a kid that called the state on the other side of the lake Westconsin….

Oh goody, mondogreens! Like Taco Bell’s cannon, The Girl with flags in her hair, Deck us all with Boston Charlie, etc.

i had a niece who called them pink fing a ming gos! we still call them that!

My niece used to say makamowee and cheese – so we still use that – as well as her pronouciation of “lipix” (lipstick). No offense was ever taken, but much controlled laughing took place!

Valentimes is serious times!

“There’s a bathroom on the right…” -CCR

My mom and I used to laugh about her using Oil of Old Lady lotion.

I always wondered why Led Zeppelin said, “A beetle-headed woman ain’t got no soul.”

Hey Ashburn, my son always says breafkist. And both my kids say aminals. The weirdest one was a girl I dated in college who was very intelligent and had no speech impediments whatsoever, except for the word ‘available’, which she pronounced ‘avaitable’. She knew the word had no ‘T’ in it and could spell it correctly, didn’t matter.

‘Breffix’ anyone?

Supposebly, everyone should know how to say Valentine’s Day.

The comments are funnier than the strip!!! Thanks for the great belly laughs, guys!!!

Saucy 1121: Until I saw it in print, when Oil of Olay was first introduced, I thought they were saying Oil of Olé. If it is as good as they were claiming I think Olé would have made more sense. I still don’t know what an olay is, but I do know cheers, even in Spanish.

Wow, what truth in the middle frame. Words are weapons thet once fired, cant be called back, but my how thin our shields are sometimes!

aargh….That one “Valentime’s” grates on my nerves too….

My brother used to call vapor trails (from airplanes) “paper trails” and he called salmon “simon”.

We never baby talked to our daughters when they were little; we spoke to them as we did to each other. If they didn’t know a word they asked what it meant. They never needed to ask again, always got it the first time. When they mispronounced a word, we didn’t correct them, we just let it go and used correct pronunciation ourselves, figuring they would pick it up later, which they did. The only exception was when one of them referred to a comforter made by their mom as her “comfortable”. We actually used that one for a while ourselves.

My mother knew a minister who refused to acknowledge that there are two ways to pronounce “wound”, depending on the definition. For him it was the same if he wound his watch, or tended his wound. So during services, he would belt out the lyrics, “…he was WOWNded, he was WOWNded….”