Nancy Classics by Ernie Bushmiller for May 25, 2017
May 24, 2017
May 26, 2017
Transcript:
Sluggo: I've been studyin' etiquette.
Nancy: That's nice.
Sluggo: Allow me to walk on the outside. Dat protects th' lady from mud splatters from the curb.
Sluggo is doing what American boys used to be taught, but in various parts of the world, all four possibilities (inside, outside, left side, and right side) are “correct”.
Harkening back to the Middle Ages, when gentlemen originally walked on the inside to protect the women from the garbage residents threw out of their windows unto the streets. True story.
atomicdog over 7 years ago
Pre OSHA. Nowadays, the sidewalk would have been roped off.
Sluggo's Eloquence Coach over 7 years ago
Sluggo, lest we forget. It’s “dat protects DA lady…”
More or Less Premium Member over 7 years ago
I remember being taught that as a lad.
Kip W over 7 years ago
Gardy loo, Nancy!
AMBER1 over 7 years ago
Be careful on what you do next, Sluggo.
Max Starman Jones over 7 years ago
That’s “koib,” Sluggo, not “curb.”
John W Kennedy Premium Member over 7 years ago
Sluggo is doing what American boys used to be taught, but in various parts of the world, all four possibilities (inside, outside, left side, and right side) are “correct”.
brklnbern over 7 years ago
Harkening back to the Middle Ages, when gentlemen originally walked on the inside to protect the women from the garbage residents threw out of their windows unto the streets. True story.