Brewster Rockit by Tim Rickard for December 11, 2009

A vowel is a terrible thing to erase…

How so Marg?

Wll, wtht vwls, y cnnt mk chrnt sntncs nd stff.

wndrwrthg, I must admit that you manage nicely without them.

Mrrmrg

Maybe it’s time to get a replacement heroic captain. This one’s getting used up. Unless, of course, you think that no mind keeps secrets better than a blank one…

Apropos to absolutely nothing at all, Hebrew and other Semitic languages are normally written without vowels. You still need to mentally fill them in, as Brewster presumably is doing.

There. I’ve just given UClick my factoid for the day. :))

Could be worse - me might have irritable vowel syndrome (that, of course, is where you use twice as many vowels)!

No, he’s only speaking Welsh

No, he’s only speaking Welsh

No, he’s only speaking Welsh

I’ve gotten the same effect on my brain from working for the Postal Service for 25 years!

I’ve gotten the same effect on my brain from working for the Postal Service for 25 years!

I’ve gotten the same effect on my brain from working for the Postal Service for 25 years!

Hmmm… Hmmm… Hmmm…

ejcapulet, ouch! Hope this doesn’t post 3 times…

Johanan, right you are about Hebrew. Studied it for a couple of years. The lack of vowels did run into some problems. Hebrew’s based on a three-consonant word root, so some roots are essentially the same without the vowels – gets confusing. In modern Hebrew, the vowels are added in the form of dots and dashes above and below. Fun language.

Doing without vowels, pssh. Try doing without grammatical tenses, personal pronouns or most verbs. You’d almost have to be Chinese!

Is it my imagination, or have I seen those last 2 panels before?

Oh no! The aliens have disemvowelled Brewster!

rac0308: it’s just your imagination – obviously the alien abductions have affected you too.

Looks like Brewster has made a vowel of silence.

Maybe he’s just texting.

Vowel movement? Dr. Toon, do you realize the Argyle Sweater did that long ago?

rac0309, I think we have–the third one at least. But the second I can’t say I remember that one…

As for the comic…shoot I can’t think of a good pun.

Say, If the R.U.Sirius is where it is, and the Earth is where it is, then … WHAT is Agent X standing on (or in) ?

Brewsky never speaks of this incident; for he knows the better part of vowelor is discretion.

It’s very important to keep your vowels moving.

There was a novel called “A Void” which didn’t use the letter E once. It was a mystery involving the disappearance of A. Vowl.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Void

If you can’t do a proper brain probe, limit yourselves to politicians who would never get elected — like DJT for example. What could go wrong?