One Big Happy by Rick Detorie for July 14, 2011

I guess stood guard is better than dussel dwarf.

I’d rather have a Hamberger.

I’d rather have a Frankfurter.

At least he’s not some wiener from Austria.

I always wondered how you got a pen pal from another country. It’s so much easier now — just go to GoComics and you can talk to people all over the world!

Güten Tag!!

What is this “pen” of which you speak?

I never did a pen pal. Joe you can have interest with the other kid.

Fanolio that is exactly what my son would have said ~ word for word. lol :)

Ach, Fanolio, du bedeutest eine Schreibfeder oder ein Kuli. Vieleicht ist es ein Kulischreiben? Hope my grammar is correct.

Sheesh, you guys, with your German sausages…Who wants a Berliner?

Machine translation: Oh, Fanolio, you means a pen or a coolie. Perhaps is it a coolie writing?

Love it, and I had a penpal in Paris when I was a teen. I did not follow through on it as much as I should have, but the tissue-thin paper and envelopes for airmail were a pain! He lived around the junction of the Seine and Marne-I remember little else. The current thread is all about little Willie who is now Ruthie’s dear pet and an episode she saw of Judge Judy and today she’s very alarmed!