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Man, I watched way too many cartoons and read way too many comics as a kid.
I see no downside to this argument
Man, I watched way too many cartoons and read way too many comics as a kid.
I see no downside to this argument
Bless you for that. I do consider it time well spent.
I remember that strip and that character! He was almost always in a chair and used phrases like "kaff kaff". "harumph" and "fap"! Occasionally he'd throw in an "Odds Bodkins"!
He was, in all likelihood, the inspiration for the Commander McBragg cartoon character.
(Nope, I just looked it up, actually C. Aubrey Smith.)
Man, I watched way too many cartoons and read way too many comics as a kid.
For that matter "the funny papers" is a term that's all but disappeared. Right along with hanging around the drug store after school to read the funny books.
Might that have something to do with the decline in quality of newspaper comics? I haven't read anything "funny" in the funny papers since Watterson stopped drawing Calvin and Hobbes.
For that matter "the funny papers" is a term that's all but disappeared. Right along with hanging around the drug store after school to read the funny books.
For that matter "the funny papers" is a term that's all but disappeared. Right along with hanging around the drug store after school to read the funny books.
Dad would always tell us to "shake a leg" to hurry us up.
Did he ever tell you to "skedaddle"?
No he never said that, though that's never been an unfamiliar term. I think of skedaddle as being a Walter Brennan or Beverly Hillbillies term.
I've heard Am-scray bandied about often enough, along with ix-nay, which is one of my wife's favorites. That last one now just makes me smile and say, "why don't you make like a tree and get out of here!""Am-scray" was popular in our household. Along with "beat feet," "hit the bricks," and "be like a tree and leave."