Frank and Ernest by Thaves for May 22, 2023

I get the pun, but what does turning or terns have to do with grammar?

What about tern around?

Our regular tern took a wrong tern, so …

… today’s tern is being played by one of our pelican stand-ins.

Awful tern of phrase.

It takes a lot gull to create puns like those.

Stopped it before it took a tern for the worst!

this took a tern for the worse

Hit ’em with rocks! Leave no Tern un-stoned.

To every season tern, tern

That last one should not be confused with a Ute urn, which is pottery produced by certain native Americans.

When I saw the last one, the first thing that came to mind was Y-turn, M-turn, C-turn, A-turn

This strip really terns me on!

The first one hasn’t been there long enough to commit. He’s just an intern.

The last one in the series has to be tern-over.

Heavy bleeding can be stopped by a terniquet.

One good tern deserves another.

And people wonder why the English language is so hard to lern.

try to avoid a down tern…!

So why left when right and right when left? Are terns backwards?

You’re all a bunch of bird-brains!

See the Book of TERNS ISBN 978-0-615-42439-2

Also, Frank & Ernest 20 years ago today.

Ecclesiastes 3:1-8

You forgot: intern and lectern.

Relative who lives down by the Water Tank – Sis-Tern…

Cowboy relative – West-Tern…

Bright Network Administrator Relative – LAN-Tern…

Relative of Unknown Pronoun – It’s Pat-Tern…

I see everyone terned out for this one.

And next will they all tern out at the YMCA?

Are they interned if they do something wrong?

Brilliant! Absolutely Brilliant and very funny, I got a great laugh out of that, thanks, made my day…

Love it! Thanks for the laugh. I wish you had a collection of the “grammar” cartoons over the years. I love them, but have never figured out how to search for just those.

The tern uses these as figures of s’beach.

Does anyone have a liverwurst sandwich that I could exchange today’s comic for? If so, you’d be taking a tern for the wurst.

This is one of those eternity panels.

Remember to leave no tern unstoned.