FoxTrot by Bill Amend for May 08, 2011
Transcript:
Morton: Bojour, mon amour. Paige: I'm not going to the dance with you, Morton. Morton: Hola, mi amor. Paige: I'm not going to the dance with you, Morton Morton. Ciao, amore mio. Paige: I'm not going to the dance with you, Morton! Morton: Ola, meu amor. Buna ziua, iubirea mea. Hola, meu amor. Paige: I'm hanging up on you now, Morton. Morton: "Romance languages" my butt. boy: Wikipedia lists a dozen more. Wanna try Corsican?
DerkinsVanPelt218 over 13 years ago
Maybe Morton should go with another nerd girl. I know they exist, otherwise there wouldn’t be any Quorra or Neytiri cosplayers.
garfield246 over 13 years ago
Didn’t Paige have to kiss him in a school play once?
Thomas Skogestad over 13 years ago
Mass market success!!!
Sandfan over 13 years ago
Use that computer to search for pimple remedies.
twj0729 over 13 years ago
What don’t you understand about “NO!”
Fogger_man over 13 years ago
Is there something wrong with plain old ENGLISH?
I have a feeling it’s not the fault of the Romance Languages, Morton…
athomas917 over 13 years ago
Anyone notice the Maximilian figurine from”The Black Hole”?
jlerner Premium Member over 13 years ago
Three cheers for Bender Rodriguez!
dcmatthews over 13 years ago
I’m thinking these guys don’t understand the meaning of the term “Romance” languages…
legaleagle48 over 13 years ago
The other two are Romanian (“Bună ziua, iubirea mea”) and Catalan (“Olá, meu amor”), Chikuku.
I’m just surprised he didn’t try the language from which the Romance languages all descended – Latin (“Salve, amor meum.”)
kittenpah over 13 years ago
Strangely, 20 years later, after all of the jocks got fat and bald, us geeks got a LOT more attention from the same girls.
ponytail56 over 13 years ago
once asked my son “what part of no don’t you understand” . he answered “the O” the first letter in the word OUCH which you will yell when I whip your butt.
surgeon24 over 13 years ago
Athomas, I noticed Maximillian! We are such nerds :)
Ernest Lemmingway over 13 years ago
Morton, take some advice from a fellow nerd. You’re not getting anywhere with someone as shallow and status-minded as Paige during high school.
@kittenpah: Of course we do! We’re the ones with the money, the power, and, rather sadly, the jobs as of late. Of course, never stop asking what it is they really want. You, or your money? Okay, they all want our money, but still.
legaleagle48 over 13 years ago
That’s because the geeks were the ones who ended up with all the money, kittenpah!
Rakkav over 13 years ago
athomas917, I thought he looked familiar - thanks for the identification!
Nothing like a comic strip about romance to bring out the cynics in our readership… those who think everyone else has lived the same sort of miserable lives they have. Thankfully, we haven’t.
delaterra over 13 years ago
Legaleagle, in Catalan it’s “Hola” with an h and no accent :) It’s my monther tongue, by the way. You can see they’ve used an automatic translator, because in Catalan you say “Hola, amor meu”.
mrcharmander934 over 13 years ago
Corsican? Of course I can! (LOL, You guys are probably going to start groaning at that little pun.)
daguru9 over 13 years ago
Speaking of geeks: Bender, R2D2, and Maximilian are sitting on the desk… :)
Banjo Evans over 13 years ago
Paige isn’t that shallow? I’ve been reading Foxtrot for years, I think she’s EXACTLY that shallow.
vldazzle over 13 years ago
Funny I can read ALL the comments before I can manage to see the toon many times lately.
iFerrarifan about 13 years ago
Oh btw, any Temari cosplayers?
fmasroor almost 13 years ago
I should actually try this… 3 rejects and counting! =(
phoenixnyc about 3 years ago
How exactly does he have her number?
Porsche 997 GT3 RS 4.0 over 2 years ago
romance languages are actually languages based on latin