Get Fuzzy by Darby Conley for October 28, 2012

Satch must have been through the sixties. He sounds so familiar.

Was this the auspicious beginning of Food or Not Food? “You can food anything if you just eat it.”

Satch helped me understand something basic about modern living in the Western world: “A lot of things are edible that aren’t actually food.” Or words to that effect. If it comes in a brightly coloured plastic package with big lettering on the front, you can just about bet that while edible, it isn’t actually food.

Frank Lloyd Wright designed a dog house. Dog didn’t like. Being a Labrador of course he didn’t like. Labs are only interested in what they can eat. Satch has some Lab in him.

so, satchel can pick up sabado gigante and caliente and betty la fea? and, amorcito corazon? por ella soy eva? el gordo y la flaca? el patron del mal? corazon valiente? and yo me llamo? la virgen de las 7 calles? daniella? marina?

What? Only Spanish television signals? Man, I wish i could pare it down to a dozen languages or so…Yes, I hear voices in my head, and for some reason they like you guys…Hey, I have no control of them, they tell me what to do…I’m a slave to my mind I guess…..Rock on Garth…

In America, we don’t have an OFFICIAL language. Literally, we don’t have one. Nothing on the books. We speak melting pot. Always have. Get over it.

Please point out to me where besides your imagination it says that the official language of America is English.

The U.S. does not have an official language. I move that we make our official language Esperanto.

If I were to decide that I wanted to live and work in Norway I would make it a point to learn Norwegian before going.I hate that I have to learn another language to order a cheeseburger in my own country.

Back in th name there was this really famous guy who was totally mad about these immigrants coming to this country. Walking around, building their own farms and towns. Just thought they could never integrate speaking german and all. Who was this Man? Ben Franklin.

We could go through the list of other groups that came here, got initial prejudice and ultimately became so americanize they lost their original culture, like those germans I mentioned, they’re now pennsylvania dutch.

I think the point is this is America: the official language is… constantly evolving. Fifty years ago, “macho” was not an American English word. One hundred years ago, “pizza” wasn’t. Now they are. Yes, immigrants should become at least reasonably familiar with American English… but those of us who have been here a bit longer should make the effort to learn some of their language(s) as well… because eventually (and inevitably) some of their language will make its way into American English. Better to embrace that process than resist it.

Hope no African-Americans read that. Or Native-Americans either for that matter. 100 years ago what he said was progressive, now it holds true to a degree, but I can see why people from other nations would want to preserve their culture.

What, Satchel’s brain didn’t switch from analog to digital four years ago? LOL. SOMEBODY STOP ME!!

I like Bucky’s reaction in Panel 6. Satchel is definitely a child of the sixties. He`s physically all there, but his headspace is … somewhere not here. .I like the Food, Not Food game. Use it when I visit the Farmer`s Market. Never know what might turn up there.

there are many foreign words in the english language. like algrebra, alcohol, nicotine, hamburger, banana, chile, cola, ok, yam, admiral, coffee, candy, jar, magazine, zero, ketchup, hurricane. those are just a few examples. also, isn’t english a child of germanic, latin, and celtic languages.

Regarding the debate on language: A Trivial Pursuit question says that a vote was taken in the US to decide which language would be the official one of hte country, English or German. English won by one vote.

Regarding the strip: Bucky sure nailed it in the last panel. Too bad he never remembers it.

It’s a brave new world so get brave! Global elitism and Illuminati manipulation. As common folk we’re just along for the economic consumerist ride and what we “like” is irrelevant. Yes I’m frustrated that my family of British Isle descent has been here for over 200 years and yet the newly arrived immagrants are all from “somewhere” else that is a “cool” place and they’re “so proud” of their native country and let you know it…..yet HERE they are…. In the words of howard hughes/leo DiCaprio…."Way of the future…WAY of..the fUTure…Way Of The FutuRE…WAy OF tHe Future…..

Forgot to mention I’m Canadian like Satchmo!

Living Canada…I prefer the American stance…American or NOT….up here we cater to minorities and have different laws for different cultures…it’s true. even lower taxes for certain “religious” groups…………

“London Pub Steak & Chop sauce, yum!IMHO it beats A-1 hand down.”IMHO, anything beats A-1 hands down. It’s beyond me why anyone would mess up a steak or anything with that vile stuff. Of course, that’s just my opinion. De gustibus . . .

Trusted Mechanic and Cooncat would hate Canada. We somehow found room for TWO languages – English & French – to be our official languages.

@SaskSledDog That is SO cool… Two languages… I love languages… @TheTrustedMechanic Maybe the reason why we may get stuck in our language is if we come here in bulk, then we don’t have incentive to learn (prime example in the case of how we came in on the Native Americans…)… Interesting ideas, … uh… send ‘em back?… um… Their are certain countries that one wouldn’t want to go back to… Well, anyways, I guess we’ll all need our own outdoor garden… Or go to workshare or something… I like speaking Spanish though… hmm…

Oh yeah… About the comic… “Try to eat everything, you’d be surprised to see how much IS edible…”… He found it by trial and error, gotta love it… I’ve noticed this trait in dog, sometimes you think they are picking up on some other TV station frequencies,… which could then change the conversation to that of noise pollution or how sound waves affect the brain and may cause cancer… Now, environment and factories is a good conversation…You know, they say that there are two subjects that if you talk about them, you divide most people: those being politics and religion, well, I broke my rules earlier… Sorry about that…

Yes, well, some of Teddy’s other ideas about being AMERICAN:

“…society has no business to permit degenerates to reproduce their kind. It is really extraordinary that our people refuse to apply to human beings such elementary knowledge as every successful farmer is obliged to apply to his own stock breeding. Any group of farmers who permitted their best stock not to breed, and let all the increase come from the worst stock, would be treated as fit inmates for an asylum. Yet we fail to understand that such conduct is rational compared to the conduct of a nation which permits unlimited breeding from the worst stocks, physically and morally, while it encourages or connives at the cold selfishness or the twisted sentimentality as a result of which the men and women ought to marry, and if married have large families, remain celebates or have no children or only one or two. Some day we will realize that the prime duty – the inescapable duty – of the good citizen of the right type is to leave his or her blood behind him in the world; and that we have no business to permit the perpetuation of citizens of the wrong type. at all.”

Soooooo …. that means that us Merkins what only tawks Merkin an’ cain’t tawk thet thar furrin English … we’uns gotsta go?

Note to self: Do not read comments until Madness Week is over in the US.

Has anyone else noticed that this cat is a bit of a jerk?