Bizarro, 22 August
Carl Fink
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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Neil Robinson
On Fri, 22 Aug 2008, Carl Fink wrote:
> Spoilers:
>
>
> 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
Carl Fink
> 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?
Rich Carreiro
> 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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> Carl Fink <ca...@panix.com> writes:
> > 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.
And ironically, many nutritionist think it may be corn syrup and not
fat from meat that is a leading cause of America's obesity problems:
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/chronicle/archive/2004/02/18/FDGS24VKMH1.DTL
Antonio E. Gonzalez
wrote:
>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*
Antonio E. Gonzalez
wrote:
Hmmm, hard to get that from "Dyslexic Mugger" . . .
Joseph Nebus
>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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aemeijers
> On 22 Aug 2008, Carl Fink said the following in
> news:slrngat8qf...@panix2.panix.com.
>
>> 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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Cedar
> 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?
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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.
Paul Ciszek
In article <cb54993d-69ab-4a13...@e39g2000hsf.googlegroups.com>,
Cedar <krist...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>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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