Monty by Jim Meddick for May 15, 2023

Any hiccup experts out there who can say whether there’s any connection between alcohol level and hiccups?

I got secondhand annoyance for you Monty, as I’d find it incredibly patronizing if my so called friends informed me I’d “had enough” and condescendingly questioned my truthfulness when I protested it was my 1st drink!

Call Bo Jackson for advice, Monty.

Those beer glasses are an optical illusion. Is there one glass or two? Especially in that last panel.

But his nose isn’t red, yet. Nor, are his eyes.

Foster Brooks he’s not.

There are 50 root words in the English language that include the character string “ugh”, and the only one in which all 3 letters are pronounced is “bughouse”. See Lucy Ricardo explain the idiocy to her husband here: youtu.be/uZV40f0cXF4

We started purging the language of this relic from Old Germanic (where it was pronounced by clearing your throat) by adopting such comprehensible spellings as donut, thruway, slew (or sluff, depending on which meaning of “slough” you intended), hiccup, plow, loch, and draft, and the desire for efficiency in texting has sped up the acceptance of thot, enuf, tho, altho, thoro, dottir, and laff.

Ughlessness: the spelling of the future!

Monty, just admit you have a problem.

Hey, give our resident dolt a break! Monty’s hiccups could really be unrelated to beer intake, you know!