So the point of the strip is that Piraro doesn't know etymology? Or that
Koko the gorilla doesn't?
"Gorilla" is just a misspelling of "guerilla".
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> So the point of the strip is that Piraro doesn't know etymology? Or that
> Koko the gorilla doesn't?
Is there a noticeable difference between the two??
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> Spoilers:
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> So the point of the strip is that Piraro doesn't know etymology? Or that
> Koko the gorilla doesn't?
>
> "Gorilla" is just a misspelling of "guerilla".
Do you have a source for that?
For gorilla, OED gives this: "An alleged African name for a wild or hairy
man (strictly for the female only), preserved (in acc. pl.
{gamma}{omicron}{rho}{giacu}{lambda}{lambda}{alpha}{fsigma}) in the Greek
account of the voyage undertaken by the Carthaginian Hanno in the 5th or
6th c. B.C.; hence adopted in 1847 as the specific name of the ape
Troglodytes gorilla, first described by Dr. T. S. Savage, an American
missionary in Western Africa.
Whereas guerilla: "a. Sp. guerrilla, dim. of guerra war. With the form
guerilla cf. F. gurilla."
And even if you were right about the etymology, how does that affect the
point of the cartoon?
Neil Robinson
> And even if you were right about the etymology, how does that affect the
> point of the cartoon?
What WAS the point of the cartoon?
> On 2008-08-22, Neil Robinson <kn...@nos.pam.bitstream.net> wrote:
>
> > And even if you were right about the etymology, how does that affect the
> > point of the cartoon?
>
> What WAS the point of the cartoon?
The point of the cartoon is that Americans are fat idiots who deserve
everything bad that happens to them, because (a) they eat meat, and
(b) they're not Moore-onic lefties.
(Of course, it's not hard to figure that out, because it's the
point of *every* Piraro cartoon).
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>On 2008-08-22, Neil Robinson <kn...@nos.pam.bitstream.net> wrote:
>
>> And even if you were right about the etymology, how does that affect the
>> point of the cartoon?
>
>What WAS the point of the cartoon?
*points to comic's title*
Hmmm, hard to get that from "Dyslexic Mugger" . . .
>On 2008-08-22, Neil Robinson <kn...@nos.pam.bitstream.net> wrote:
>> And even if you were right about the etymology, how does that affect the
>> point of the cartoon?
>What WAS the point of the cartoon?
What was the point of having Bob Saget meet Charlemagne?
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Even a gorilla, an animal, recognizes that Bin Laden (and other such
terrorists) are nuts. The gorilla/guerrilla thing is just a little
wordplay to have the thing make more sense.
Maybe Pirarro stole the gorilla/guerrila thing from David Brin. ;-)
(Most of Brin's guerrilas were acutally chimpanzees.)
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