Ginger Meggs by Jason Chatfield for July 18, 2010

he did the clueless expression perfectly, so it was;nt that.

Not too clever there Ginger! KIds, they never think things through!!

G’day Jason, JFri, usfellers, ottod, Joe and all Meggsie fans far and wide!

Okay Jason! I don’t see a number today! I knew I wasn’t that crazy! Neither were you ottod! :-D

Wait where did Ginger get the monkey?

G’day Jason and all Meggsie’s mates. Have to be a little brief in greetings, list suddenly got too long but you all know who you are.

Ginger monkeying around again. A red wig would have solved the problem.

LW18: Ginger has had a monkey pet Tony) since, um, well, he appears in the 1925 Annual which would mean Ginger got him in 1924. A gift from an exploring uncle.

Blush department. OtraVez: I made the same mistake about who was playing video games with Ginger a couple of weeks ago. It was a small kid called Chubb.

Well, I’ll be buttered on both sides OtraVez, you’re right. After my embarrassment a couple of weeks ago I should have checked back - it defintely was Tony then. He is a smart little cookie.

He played hooky on Thursday. I too was almost fooled.

Otra vez, are you back … again?

You need to be more creative Ginge!

Good Morning and G’Day to ALL the Meggsie fans!

Welcome back, OtraVez!

I can’t read the graffiti today.

ottod something pays off in the future, something pays off now, but that’s all I can read even at 400%!

Hello OtraVez! Nice to meet you! ;-)

Dry,

Maybe the numbers are only in the dailys.

ottod, yes maybe so. Funny I never noticed them before!! : -D

BTW, I love Ginger’s expression in that last panel!

Dry and OttoD: Putting the graffiti through Photoshop shows it to read ‘Hard work pays off in the future, laziness pays off now’.

Gee, hope I spelt ‘graffiti’ correctly. Including my own spelling of it in the past, I have seen more variations than how Shishkabob is spelt around the traps.

usfellers Makes sense to me! And graffiti looks right to me. I thought there was only one way to spell Shishkabob! Okay, since that was said, can’t help but think of the phrase, “Bob’s your uncle!” don’t ask me what it means, it just popped into my head!

Good to have you here, OtraVez!

Ok Dry, here we go - Shishkabab, shishkabeb, shishkabib , shishkabob, shishkabub (all the vowels seemed to work). Then we go back and start off all over again with Sheeshkabab, etc. Have seen all of them, with one enterprising takeaway place offering shiskabubs and another with shishkebibs.

It makes for a great adult car tour game. Another one is to jot down the use/misuse/omission of the poor apostrophe. Best I’ve seen there is a comma used in its place.

usfellers I must live a sheltered existence! Never saw any of those variations!

You’re welcome OtraVez!

Dry: It must be an Australian peculiarity and a phonetic spelling of some foreign word. We have many restaurants and takeaways run by new arrivals and I suppose they spell it how it sounds to them.

Some of the menus at Asian restaurants are a night’s entertainment in themselves.

Hello to usfellers, Dry, OtraVez and other GM fans!

usfellers, I decided to quit picking on Bob all the time so now I shishka George!

Hey JFri - luv it. Yeah, poor old Bob. Bab, Beb, Bib and Bub get a bad time too every now and again. Only just yesterday there was a stand set up near my local supermarket that said Sheeshka to Bob.

Also near home there is a workout place that has the sign Squash Sauna Gym. Seriously - I did this - I phoned them and asked what Sauna Jim had done to deserve being squashed. The lack of humour on the other end suggested that I should not pursue why they couldn’t do it themselves instead of inciting someone else to do their dirty work.

usfellers crank calls at your age? For shame!!! ROFLMAO!!!

Hey, OtraVes, you aint foolin’ no one, but that’s O.K.

Perhaps another name could have been,”PorQueNo” Trans: “WhyNot”

(P.S. Don’t be so sensitive next time.)

Hey JFri

Terrible isn’t it Dry. I sometimes hang my head in shame but the guilt soon passes. Can’t help having a dig at those who live off the fat of the land.

OtraVez: Yes, it is such a place, but if you want to go there be sure your name ain’t Jim. From what is plainly visible through expansive windows to all and sundry passing in the street, those prancing around all over the place may well be called upon to see you meet your Maker.

Been fun again, thanks all, back later. To bed.

usfellers, can the old “Do you have Prince Albert in a can?” crank call be far behind? :-)

It’s always fun with you around, Usfellers.

Shishkabab reminds me of reading “The Seven Pillars of Wisdom” by T. E. Lawrence. Since there were no rules for rendering Arabic words and names into English, he did it phonetically and inconsistently, so that sometimes the same name would be spelled differently two or three times on the same page. Made it a little hard to follow.

Usfellers, how about slush kabob?!

So you’ve heard about the type of kebab that was on sale near the local supermarket.

Re the Prince Albert cherstnut, yes, suppose so There is, of course, the situation of the snappy-catch answer where an intended victim gets a shot, as in: Irate motorist in the carpark: “Hey, do you know you are parked so close to my car I can’t get in.” The errant slob: “No, but if you whistle a couple of bars I might remember the tune.”

Good one Usfellers.

Good to have you back, an’other’ time, and again-

Gday all Meggsie fans!

Hello, Jason!

Very glad to see the “Ginger Meggs crowd” all back together again. Welcome back OtraVez!

Hey Jason and Noreen! Tis, isn’t it!

Sure is, with Ginger adding more each day to his list of mates going back almost 90 years.

Thank you, Noreen & Usfellers!