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| I don't read comic books, but I love to read American newspaper comics from the late 19th and early 20th centuries. My favorites are Popeye, Krazy Kat and The Katzenjammer Kids. I think the thing I love best about them is the way some of the characters mangle the English language. |
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| #3 (permalink) Tue Jun 23, 2009 21:35 pm Do you like comic? |
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| Jamie (K) wrote: |
| I think the thing I love best about them is the way some of the characters mangle the English language. |
So give us an example please.
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| #4 (permalink) Tue Jun 23, 2009 21:43 pm Do you like comic? |
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| Someone wrote: |
| Jamie (K) wrote: |
| I think the thing I love best about them is the way some of the characters mangle the English language. |
So give us an example please. |
Popeye says, "I ain't man enough to be no mother."
Another character says, "Let's you and him fight."
Still another character says, "Those ornamentals and us accidentals never the trains shall meet!" |
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| #5 (permalink) Fri Jun 26, 2009 9:34 am Do you like comic? |
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| Jamie (K) wrote: |
| Still another character says, "Those ornamentals and us accidentals never the trains shall meet!" |
Ha-ha. That paraphrase of Kipling is really good. The original sounds like "East is East, and West is West, and never the twain shall meet". Who is the character?
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| #6 (permalink) Fri Jun 26, 2009 11:49 am Do you like comic? |
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| Jamie (K) wrote: |
| Still another character says, "Those ornamentals and us accidentals never the trains shall meet!" |
Ha-ha. That paraphrase of Kipling is really good. The original sounds like "East is East, and West is West, and never the twain shall meet". Who is the character? |
It's two characters in a Krazy Kat comic. I can't remember which ones. They get tricked by a Chinese duck whose behavior they find incomprehensible, and at the end they say that. I like the fact that they call Orientals and Occidentals "ornamentals" and "accidentals".
Those Krazy Kat strips ran from 1913 to 1944, and the earlier comics are the craziest ones. |
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