Get Fuzzy by Darby Conley for September 11, 2014

And I thought I was having a hard time with Downton Abbey!

Needs subtitles for the Cockney impaired (moi).

Might be rhyming slang; a head is a loaf because head rhymes bread and bread comes in loaves. I think you have to be born/raised in it.

Some of it is rhyming slang. Loosely translated:

Ah, brillient! I’ve been looking for your apartment all day, friend, thought I’d messed up! I’m pretty tired, let me tell you. I could use a drink and some sleep. Plus, some guy took my umbrella in the line for the bathroom back in England.

Very good. I have been looking for your apartment all day. I thought I had made a mistake. I am extremely tired. I would love to have something to eat and short sleep.

In addition, someone stole my umbrella while I was waiting to go to the toilet back in England.

MMM was Darby’s funniest conception.

Somewhere between Manc and Cockney…

The old British dialects whether scouse, cockney or yoksher are all rather quaint. These days the youth all seem to tend towards the Ja-fake-an patois of the mentally subnormal Kingston druggies. Sacha Baron Cohen’s Ali G material was not in fact a comedy but a hard hitting documentary….

I didn’t find the ad that used to air on BBC America about turning on the “closed captioning” in order to understand what was being said. I always saw it before “Top Gear”. I did however find the DVD warning which is so funny that I figured if you haven’t seen it yet, it might make you smile.

This is why I turn on Closed-Captioning on blighty-produced TV shows like “Game of Thrones”.

Babelfish anyone?

Is Mac any relation to Bill the Cat?

England and America are two countries separated by a common language. George Bernard Shaw

Dont know but I bet he knows Billy the Fish (VIZ mag)

To my surprise, I understand this better than Ebonics. But then again I’ve been watching British television for fifty years.

Thanks to all translators, but I think I will wait for Satchel’s version.

Blimey, these Yanks are thick as bricks.

Remember: “It’s crackers to slip a rozzer the dropsy in snide”.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magersfontein_Lugg

My hovercraft is full of eels.

Can I just mention how much I love you all for the responses that both educate and amuse me? And I second the notion of the book.

There was a TV series in England with a character from Glasgow, whose dialect was so thickly incomprehensible, his speech had to be “open captioned” for the British audience.

I’ve often wondered how many English dialects are genuine and how many are put on to mess with American tourists.

Believe me, we’d do the same to you.

I am confused, though.. Mac is not a new character, so why is Satchel acting like he doesn’t know him?

Or are we in reruns now?

I work with a Civil Engineer from England.

I asked for a translation. Here’s what he sent me:.Appears to be a mixture of cockney rhyming slang and colloquialisms prevalent in the north of England, therefore I can translate with some confidence:.

“Havin’ a butchers for” = looking for.

“Cocked summat up” = screwed something up.

“Well knackered” = very tired.

“Bevvy” = beverage, preferably alcoholic.

“Kip” = nap.

“Diddled me brolly” = stole my umbrella. Use of “diddled” is questionable in this context. “Kifed” would have been a better choice but might have led to even more confusion.

“Queue for the khazi” = waiting line for the toilet.

“Blighty” = England (I suspect you knew that one)

Thank you Pacopuddy! <3

To understand what Mac is on about, try googling this site:The Septic’s Companion

He’s still more understandable than “Mimi” over at Rose is Rose…

Today’s strip makes no sense.

It does if you speak cockney mate

I understood some of it, due to my Cockney rhyming slang research and watching “Ocean’s Eleven”.