The Dinette Set by Julie Larson for November 19, 2009

But you’re still dumb…

Brick is in the yard….

Hmm, I thought the brick was coming out of the collar of the green shirt.

I wonder whose brick it is. Everyone there is short of a full load…

Thick as a brick?

naw, that thing coming out of the green shirt is a block

Margueritem: sometimes being dumb (as in, mute) is smart.

when did this start to be a cartoon for kids..next is find the differences.

lassie: remind grandpa that Timmie is still in the well

Prove it they are not real blondes.

Timmy probably called the boy with the red hair “Ginger” because he must have heard his grandfather, Dale Shemp, call a red haired man “Ginger.”

But Ginger isn’t a slur – unless you’re Eric Cartman that is!

And as for the brick – they’re all thick as bricks.

In my entire life (only slightly younger than JAD) I don’t remember ever seeing “Ginger” for a redhead anywhere except in cartoons. And except for the “South Park” episode, they were all British or Australian (as in “Ginger Meggs”).

If Americans use the word that way, I suspect it is either regional (like fice, mahoff, antigoggling, or gum bands) or preserved in some families, perhaps of redheads themselves.

(A little Googling pretty much confirms that the word, especially intended as a slur, is British.)