Remember the memorable 1997 sequence at the beach, when Gene’s friend Mary Lou is expecting a baby? Of course you remember it; it’s memorable! Well, the above is the lesser-known final cartoon in that storyline; the family is back home, and Mary Lou is forgotten. Or so it seemed at the time. I guess you would equate this one to the little skit they would tack on the end of television sit-coms, little jokes that stood apart from the basic plot. You know, the last minute or so that was always dropped when a show went into syndication, to make room for another commercial.
Letter of the Law
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236 responses to “Letter of the Law”
Debbe, I love those letters. I told our Elvis and he doesn’t believe that their is another Elvis. He may have to write in to get this straightened out. There are just certain words that we never say correctly, unless we are using our telephone voice (you know what I mean) or otherwise trying to sound proper. Do you say “you” in casual conversation or do you say “chew” as in “don chew know”? Think about it.
Whoops, there.
c x-p:
“Let’s” = “Let us”, which you rarely hear or read. [etc.]
It’s “Let us” that you rarely see. That’s why the KJV, Luke 2:19 came to mind: many church kids’ Christmas programs over the years, + readings of version of the birth narrative in the gospel attributed to Luke from the pulpit or lectern. Besides, stars don’t behave like that, and many theologs suspect he was born in his home town, Nazareth. And also that it doesn’t matter, except to the tourist economy of Bethlehem.
Peace, emb
I am a slow and deliberate speaker, compared to some people, anyway, and I have been known to say things like “Let us think about this for a while”, or “Let us round up the children and go to the store.” Often I do say “you”; other times it’s attached to the next word in the sentence. I take care to enunciate clearly. People sometimes ask me if I was a schoolteacher! No, I wasn’t, but my daughter Pat is, and she talks so fast that I’m amazed at her talent. She enunciates well and can be understood, even at blazing speed!
Charlotte,
If she can sing [and dance a little], she might do well in a G&S company.
Peace, emb
Or as an auctioneer.
Thanks for the apostrophe discussion, Villagers. I enjoyed it a lot. (Not alot, mind you.) (I did that on purpose, and my computer corrected it—I had to change it back. One of the few times the computer got it right, I’d have to say.) I also hate alright when it should be all right. Sigh. Okay—off the soapbox now.
emb and Mark, excellent suggestions! Nancy Kirk, I agree with you so much. Another pet peeve is for instance, ” there is a bear in my backyard.” No, no, no. You can have a backyard barbeque, or a backyard swimming pool, but a bear, or a turtle, or a fireplace, has to be in your back yard.
Cep
I agree let’s very common in speech not print.
The Coney Island Baby reference is to WB cartoon of the late 40s very early 50s
A singing frog is found in a Cornerstone by a worker. Whenever he is presented the
frog just croaks. But otherwise sings constantly in beautiful voice. Which creates problems
for the worker. The worker puts the frog in the new Cornerstone. Skip ahead and a worker
(in a space suit) opens the Cornerstone and is greeted by the singing frog.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MsROL4Kf8QY
more
Pt 2
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lfrJzkpzCyg
Songs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bkjsN-J27aU
Abbreviated version
It is a Chuck Jones tour de force 1955
full version
https://vimeo.com/50941741
My favorite recent cat video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Z4jx5VMw8M
http://www.gocomics.com/herman/2015/07/09
Love the build-up on this one: http://www.gocomics.com/herman/2015/06/21
Just for the record, that cartoon contained one original song, The Michigan Rag.
Good morning Villagers….
ya’ll have a blessed day
Good morning to you too Debbe darling. You take care of yourself. I am running on not enough sleep and ptobably not enough food and exercise too. Adrenaline? Knocked my glasses under bed and new ones still have not arrived, this means I will have to retrieve these.
Rest of the Village, have a good day and weekend. It’s 5:30 here and sun is up in Olympic Peninsula.
Professional ones, I am having to type on a Smartphone with an air pem, laboriously and painfully. Don’t bother with those apostrophes much, let them fall where they will or won’t /wont.
Lordy I am catching that punny spelling disease!
Love Jackie
All of this talk about let us got me thinking…What’s you favorite salad dressing? I have discovered a wealth of dressinds while visiting Japan.
Reminds me of a honeymoon salad. Let us alone.
I like that one, Jerry!
Debbe, you just made me realize that when all else fails, I always seem to have a few blessings somewhere if I look for them. Of course, sometimes I do have to search pretty hard to find them. 😉
Re: today’s real time strip. Why the popularity of selfies now? Self-photography has been affordable and possible for the masses since the early 20th century. Is it due to improvements in the technology? Automatic focussing? Or because the photos aren’t on film and we aren’t “wasting” anything by taking shots of ourselves?
Denise, I fear the popularity of selfies may be less a reflection of technological advances than one of an increased incident of narcissism and megalomania among the general population.
Or perhaps I just haven’t caught up on recently missed sleep and am being a grouch-bear this morning.
Debbe 😉 Another sign of sleep deprivation is that I fell asleep last night without posting your daily tune. I’ll do better.
One of the members of “The 27 Club”, even she knew her voice would not last if she continued to sing like that.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=guKoNCQFAFk
You OK, hon?
Jackie, does your smart phone not have a “voice-to-text” option that allows you to dictate your messages and have it covert your voice to text, thereby taking the labor and pain out of posting? If not, it is not a very smart smart phone.
I did a double take yesterday when I saw an InterWebNet story headline reading “Man Shoots Kitten Killing Bobcat”. WTH? How could a kitten be killing a bobcat? And why couldn’t the man save the bobcat without shooting the kitten? And who would do that, anyway?
And then I read the article and realized how much difference the humble hyphen can make. A bobcat had gotten into a dog run behind the man’s house where he was keeping a mama domestic cat with new kittens and had killed four of the kittens. He was unable to frighten off the bobcat and had to shoot it when it turned toward him. Perhaps a less confounding heading might have been “Man Shoots Kitten-Killing Bobcat”. Especially for the sleep deprived.
Of course, if we’re talking apostrophes and spelling we have to bring up the ever-popular Southernism “y’all”, meaning “you all”. It is not spelled “ya’ll” since it is the contraction of “you all”, thus removing the ou. Another thing confusing to non-Southerners is that “y’all” is singular, referring to just one person. If you are speaking to a group of people the correct usage is “all y’all”.
You’re welcome.
(And you can have my Oxford comma when you pry it from my cold, dead hands!)