Monty by Jim Meddick for November 25, 2011
Transcript:
Monty: Oh, there you are, Doc! We missed you at Thanksgiving. Scientist: I was visiting an early harvest festival in England, 1592... it was marvelous! So cheerful! Everyone eating, drinking! Singing! Hey derry derry with a poupe and a lerry, ile trowle it againe to thee... Monty: Great, doc! But you better check the settings on that time travel-thing... I think you may've accidentally visited Norway...
Aussie Down Under almost 13 years ago
All double Dutch to me.
Sisyphos almost 13 years ago
Monty, what do you know about Norwegian? Where’s Inshadowz?
Proginoskes almost 13 years ago
Actually, the professor could have returned the day before, and attended yesterday’s comic as well.
edvar almost 13 years ago
As a Norwegian I can’t see that traditional English derry derry stuff (ref Google) is related to Norway in any way?PS. It’s lunch time here!
billyruffian almost 13 years ago
Didn’t Mick Jagger write that one?
Aussie Down Under almost 13 years ago
It will be Saturday here in 36 minutes.
Commentator almost 13 years ago
Not only are Aussies in a completely different time zone, they are upside down as well.
TheSpanishInquisition almost 13 years ago
I just got up 45 minutes ago on a Friday — CST. @AussieDownUnder, perhaps you should get to sleep?
MelvinLott almost 13 years ago
I love the smell of logic in the morning. Like the old saying goes, “Shine a light on them and they’ll cover their eyes and blink uncontrollably.”
GypsyWoman almost 13 years ago
My husband’s side of the family is all Norweigan and yeah, I guess I don’t get the comic. But yesterday’s was great!
jonescientific almost 13 years ago
The joke is that Monty can’t tell Middle English from Norwegian.
David Bethke Premium Member almost 13 years ago
And a
Hooky, Hooky, we have shorne, And we have bound, And we have brought Harvest Home to towne.
back at you (hey it’s Middle English gibberish, too!)hometownk Premium Member almost 13 years ago
It may be of surprise to you that the Native Americans weren’t the only peoples in history to be displaced by others moving in. All ancient history is about battles and invasions. But, if we are going back to our roots, then there is a plot of land somewhere in Greece that belongs to me (my grandmother was a Greek countess). LIkewise a plot of land in the Ukraine. Would you like to help me reclaim them?
fritzoid Premium Member almost 13 years ago
That’s not Middle English, that’s Early Modern English (Elizabethan).
Suzanne, somewhere near the southern tip of the Baltic Sea there’s a pig farm that could have been my inheritance, but if we Germans tried to push out the Poles who pushed out my ancestors, we’d likely re-ignite World War II.
boldyuma almost 13 years ago
Wake me when the “oompa loompas” show up.
(I love German beer drinking music)
Richard Strader Premium Member almost 13 years ago
Somewhere in Massachusetts is a towne called Boston of which half belongs to me. I’ll help you if you help me!
Richard Strader Premium Member almost 13 years ago
OH! And West Virginia too!
Hunter7 almost 13 years ago
I almost got that English verse. Well the first couple of lines, the rest decided NOT to settle in the brain. So I give you….Hey Ho, no body home.Meat nor drink, nor money have we none.Yet shall we be mer-ry.Hey Ho, no body home….
Hunter7 almost 13 years ago
Vanier Cup – tied – 3 seconds left on the clock. the kids play well.
Hunter7 almost 13 years ago
kick was wide! Going to overtime!
JP Steve Premium Member almost 13 years ago
WOW! That’s a lot of hostility over a strip that was only intended to be silly!
lohaces almost 13 years ago
England, 1592… I would have thought the Protestant rulers had banned harvest festivals during that time.