"The Knight Life is undeniably the best new laugh- and thoughtprovoker on the comics page. Not since Calvin and Hobbes has there been so novel an entertainment in the funnies."
- R.C.Harvey, The Comics Journal
"Point blank: Keith Knight is one of our generation's best cartoonists. If he were any funnier, he'd be illegal."
- Jeff Chang, hip-hop journalist & author
Well, my dear wife was born right here in America, but in an immigrant household, and manages to mangle, or more amazingly, never have heard of certain sayings. My favorite one ever was when she said somebody fell for something “fish, hook, and barrel.”
My favorite grad school prof, a gentleman from Hungary, has a way with words:
“You have to line up your ducks.”
“I’m so unhappy. I’m absolutely unbemused.”
“Believe me, if you don’t look before you jump, you are going to get hurt. Because there is no water in the swimming pool.”
And my favorite: “Assumptions are the mother of screwing up things.”
Just a momentary historical aside: Mark Twain used colloquialisms which are indecipherable to the modern reader. And that was only the early 20th Century. How can anyone have the chutzpah to assume that readers of the modern-day Bible have any idea whatsoever what the original writers meant? ? !
Because Mark Twain did not write the original Bible. Pastoral nomads, using a veritable Babel of spoken languages, did. So they cut the wisecracks in favor of a precise average of their languages.
“Stone people who work on the Sabbath” means exactly what it says! C-;
My XGF, Vietnamese, mangling a Christmas Carol:
“Jingle Bell Jingle Bell, Jingle on the way. Oh have fun and ride all day with the one who has a sleigh!”
My favorite wife, a child care provider, altering a nursery rhyme:
“The farmer in the dell, the farmer in the dell, heigh-ho the radio, the farmer in the dell…”
I know I know – too cute to fix.
Favorite from my Belgian wife: Thinking that a cathouse was pretty much the same as a doghouse.
Nice!! Send more of ‘em and I’ll put ‘em in the strip!!
Well, my dear wife was born right here in America, but in an immigrant household, and manages to mangle, or more amazingly, never have heard of certain sayings. My favorite one ever was when she said somebody fell for something “fish, hook, and barrel.”
My favorite grad school prof, a gentleman from Hungary, has a way with words:
“You have to line up your ducks.”
“I’m so unhappy. I’m absolutely unbemused.”
“Believe me, if you don’t look before you jump, you are going to get hurt. Because there is no water in the swimming pool.”
And my favorite: “Assumptions are the mother of screwing up things.”
A girl from Brazil killed three language birds with a single stone-phrase before watching a movie at her place:
“Concentração para el Movie!”
Made me laugh so hard! And it was kinda musical too.
Just a momentary historical aside: Mark Twain used colloquialisms which are indecipherable to the modern reader. And that was only the early 20th Century. How can anyone have the chutzpah to assume that readers of the modern-day Bible have any idea whatsoever what the original writers meant? ? !
Because Mark Twain did not write the original Bible. Pastoral nomads, using a veritable Babel of spoken languages, did. So they cut the wisecracks in favor of a precise average of their languages.
“Stone people who work on the Sabbath” means exactly what it says! C-;