Baldo by Hector D. Cantú and Carlos Castellanos for August 27, 2010

An ice pack’ll help the swelling go down…

Parethed, where’s JAD with his spanish credentials when you need him?

Thanks TJ, saved me some time.

When you get the girl and marry her, a five day black eye is well worth the price for a guy.

TrapperJohn - Babelfish seems to have a lot of trouble if you don’t include the special characters. “dígame” (with the accented ‘í’) works correctly, but “digame” with a regular ‘i’ doesn’t.

I’ve had the same type of issue with trying to decipher German lately, too.

“If you want a good one, you have to take her away from someone else.”

I hope this works out. Baldo needs a girlfriend, or at least a girl friend. (There’s Sylvia Sanchez, but she hasn’t been around in a while, and frankly she’s out of his league.)

I still miss Smiley…

Hay qué hablar español para intender y comprender esos tiros. Sí, dígame means tell me in the imperative form.

Yeah, what ever happened to Smiley?

As I recall, she went from being a tomboy to a girly-girl pretty much overnight. She also stopped responding to “Smiley” and started going by her given name (which I can’t recall).

The explanation was that she “matured”, and “outgrew” Baldo, but it seemed rather cold and abrupt to me. Also, since she was Anglo, when she stopped associating with Baldo it appeared that she was also disassociating from inter-cultural friendships. (I doubt that was the intention, but that’s how it read to me.) Even if Hector and Carlos thought her character was a dead-end, I felt she deserved better…