Tom the Dancing Bug by Ruben Bolling for April 11, 2019

Them Frenchies is weird they already had a comedy genius in Jacques Tati!

You left off French fries. Or were they “Freedom Fries” when this came out?

It’s “last,” not “latter.” Sacre bleu!

These older panels have a certain… I don’t know what, to their comedic delivery.

Reading today’s cartoon reminded me of something I read a few years ago; ‘The French make foreign policy like a French housewife prepares chicken – undercooked and too much garlic’.

No, the Eiffel Tower is NOT totally “purposeless” — there is a restaurant located on it.

Napoleon Lajoie (sp.?)

I had always thought France was much larger.

I’m from Lafayette, Indiana and we’re definitely not French, but we do have a certain “Je ne say squat.”

Really, there’s nothing so piquant as a comic roughly the size of a comic!

I had a cab driver in Paris once explain to me why Parisians, particularly, are so rude to tourists.

" First," he said, " The French national pastime is hating each other, so you can’t expect us to like strangers."

" Second, we Parisians are the only people in the world who know how to speak French, so we look down on everyone else’s pitiful attempts to try – and that includes the rest of France."

" Finally, we have never forgiven you Yanks and Brits for bailing our butts out in World War II ! "

The language one is kind of right. A long time ago, it was yet to be decided which dialect would become universal in France. One version in the south, one in the north. They were identified by their different words for “yes.” The "oui"’s won out. The "oc"’s did not. Obviously, the "oui"’s were in the north. And that meant Paris, the Breton’s and others having their own minority dialects.

It’s true. Look it up and impress your friends. Well, maybe not your friends, who are only impressed by your knowledge of original Star Trek episodes, but someone’s friends.

How ungrateful! They gave us The Statue of Liberty. But of course, that was when they liked us. Now we are personae non gratae in their country.

They loved Jerry because they thought he perfectly represented the average American.

Frenchy Bordagaray at least had the nickname.

I remember this one. Thank God, my memory is returning!

Parc Asterix is better than Dizzyland Europe.

Why are there trees planted along the Camps Elysees?

Because the Germans like to march in the shade.

(rimshot)