Get Fuzzy by Darby Conley for June 23, 2018

Bougre!

To quote Chief Inspector Clouseau…. “Merde!”

Still not funny.

Bucky is back in stir, finally.

Finally,indeed.

Close the door and throw away the key.

Oh, please—Rob should have told Satchel to grow up. If someone follows you around only saying “booger,” you should laugh at him, not whine to your guardian.

And how were we to know Bucky yelled booger? The punctuation indicated he was only saying it.

It came to my attention some years ago that certain British accents (London ones?) pronounce “o” “oo”—sorry, audio would help more than print. But if it helps: consider Mac Manc McManx. In some Get Fuzzy strip, Conley wrote the accent phonetically, e.g., Mac calls Bucky “Boochy.”

Anyway, since the “u” in “bugger” is the same sound as the u in “Bucky” (in American English, anyway), would the British accent I refer to pronounce “bugger” as “booger” anyway?

If that’s the case, are they the same word in sound? E.g., if they had been in London, did Rob just say “booger” and Bucky say “booger” back at him? Or would this accent pronounce “booger” some other way?

Booger Bugger Bucky…

Booger is close to the Liverpool accent (a bit like pronouncing the vowels in “book”) – definitely not London where it is pronounced bugger (as in Bucky)

Bollocks…

NOT your best work, Darby.

I enjoyed the arc, but then I like running gags.

Anyone else think this would make a great cartoon show?

Bucky is a blivit (10 pounds of poop stuffed into a five pound sack).

Rob is such a buzzkill

Oh, bugger, indeed … another of Bucky’s plans, thwarted. Poor guy.

The word “bugger” has always made me chuckle, though. Good strip today.