Strange Brew by John Deering for December 29, 2022

Wish they were all like that.

bring’em Webster 9mm caliber!

Just wait ’til they get hit by the OED.

LOL, nice symbolism for 5th Generation Warfare. Google it, since you probably don’t know the irony here of today’s comic.

Sticks and stones may break my bones but words will conflagrate all soldiers.

“Those elitist Sesqipedalians are a perverse plethora of Thesaurus-heads. We consider their bloviated threats with extreme floccinaucinihilipilification."

Haven’t you heard. It’s a battle of words. And most of them are lies. (Apologies to Pink Floyd)

Choose your battles and adjectives carefully.

The initial “bombing raids” by RAF on Germany was a war on words. They dropped leaflets. They didn’t want to P-O the Germans for fear that they would retaliate.

Wait. Is this a scene from The Great Twitter War?

Throw the book at them.

Could have fooled me‼️☹️

The page was nice and quiet, or so it would appear,

Until an interjection made his entrance with a sneer.

Some took it as a challenge and accordingly were stirred

To begin what would become the famous War of the Words.

At first it seemed innocuous – two sides exchanging nouns –

Until the verbs’ aggression started moving out of bounds.

The slang was getting rougher, some words approaching swear.

One side unpacked their adjectives and launched them in the air.

The peaceful prepositions sadly never got the floor.

The phrases now were drawing up the articles of war.

The adverbs and conjunctions formed a formidable troop,

While the undercover pronouns did their very best to snoop.

In half a dozen paragraphs, the forceful language stopped,

With scattered punctuation and a hundred letters dropped.

The mess of broken English made the few survivors sigh.

It’s always pun and games till someone loses an “i.”

—me

Someone stole my thesaurus and I have no words to describe how I feel

That’s how all wars usually start, with words…..