LINGUIST List 10.318

Fri Feb 26 1999

Disc: Re: 10.310, FYI: Linguistic humor

Editor for this issue: Jody Huellmantel <jodylinguistlist.org>

Directory

1. Hutchinson, Larry, Linguistic humor
2. Hutchinson, Larry, Linguistics humor
3. Karen Steffen Chung, Linguistic humor

The Frank and Ernest cartoon Paul Chapin refers us to is a rerun! Jerry
Sanders had it posted on his office door for so long it yellowed with age.
(The rerun is now posted on MY office door.) I have e-mailed the author, Bob
Thaves, about rerun policy, but he hasn't responded. I thought he might like
to know there were linguists out there noticing his work.

Oops! Bob Thaves DID reply to my question about his cartoon rerun policy,
but I missed it. The reply was posted on one of his webpages. Here it is:

Updating the Archive
by Bob Thaves, 2/10/99 
Larry - On rare occasions cartoons are redrawn and distributed to newspapers
if we receive inquiries from readers. Typically, these are strips that have
enjoyed long-term placement on refrigerators or bulletin boards and have
been lost or damaged. We also find that it can be kind of fun to see how the
drawing style s changed! 

> I highly recommend to all linguists the February 8, 1999 issue of the
> "Frank and Ernest" comic strip. You can see it on-line at
> http://www.frankandernest.com/cgi/view/recent.pl?99-02-08.
> 
> Paul Chapin
> ****************


Thanks, Paul, and it's worth checking out - if you haven't seen it
before. But in the interest of honesty, I feel I should point out that
it is recycled - I clipped and saved this one many, many years ago,
back when I still read the funnies every day!

 Karen Steffen Chung
 National Taiwan
 University
 karchungccms.ntu.edu.tw