Hot Dog! We got that 'lectricity down here in North Cakalaky!
OK, back to neighbor humor:
I normally say HA HA HA to the lame humor, but I think the appropriate response to this Snuffy Smith comic is Hardy har har. You may also think that this is ridiculous, over-the-top hick dialogue, but there's someone at my office who actually talks like this. She says things like, "I done throwed that away" and "He ain't got none of them." Yep, she's just perpetuatin' the image of the dadgum dum Southerner!
Also, she doesn't curse, just says things like "Sugar." When she wants to say "Damn" she always spells it. But she spells it "D-A-M" like the Hoover Dam or something. I don't know if she just doesn't know how Damn is really spelled, or if she is trying to save time or what. Or, maybe she thinks that she shouldn’t even spell a bad word, and so she’s censoring her spelling. Every time she does it I think, "I'll tell her it's misspelled. But I’ll just let her keep doing it.
Anyway, this is only neighbor humor because Elviney and Loweezy happen to be neighbors. Just talkin' 'cross the back fence, like us folks in the South do all the dadburn time! Note, this is also a bit of the marriage "humor" I used to rail about. Why don't they have any dishes to do? Now that their husbands are gone, are they not eating? Or are they using paper plates? Or not using dishes at all? How are they cooking their food then? I guess the husband uses one plate, one glass, and a set of silverware (although we are talking about hicks, here, so maybe not even that much!) Well, anyway, it's not like the workload has decreased that much, right?
Finally, the official name of this strip is Barney Google and Snuffy Smith (I looked it up!). I think Snuffy is the little bald guy married to Loweezy (the one with the red shirt and saggy boobs). In fact, I know for sure that that is who Snuffy is. But who in the world is Barney Google? I have no idea.
I normally say HA HA HA to the lame humor, but I think the appropriate response to this Snuffy Smith comic is Hardy har har. You may also think that this is ridiculous, over-the-top hick dialogue, but there's someone at my office who actually talks like this. She says things like, "I done throwed that away" and "He ain't got none of them." Yep, she's just perpetuatin' the image of the dadgum dum Southerner!
Also, she doesn't curse, just says things like "Sugar." When she wants to say "Damn" she always spells it. But she spells it "D-A-M" like the Hoover Dam or something. I don't know if she just doesn't know how Damn is really spelled, or if she is trying to save time or what. Or, maybe she thinks that she shouldn’t even spell a bad word, and so she’s censoring her spelling. Every time she does it I think, "I'll tell her it's misspelled. But I’ll just let her keep doing it.
Anyway, this is only neighbor humor because Elviney and Loweezy happen to be neighbors. Just talkin' 'cross the back fence, like us folks in the South do all the dadburn time! Note, this is also a bit of the marriage "humor" I used to rail about. Why don't they have any dishes to do? Now that their husbands are gone, are they not eating? Or are they using paper plates? Or not using dishes at all? How are they cooking their food then? I guess the husband uses one plate, one glass, and a set of silverware (although we are talking about hicks, here, so maybe not even that much!) Well, anyway, it's not like the workload has decreased that much, right?
Finally, the official name of this strip is Barney Google and Snuffy Smith (I looked it up!). I think Snuffy is the little bald guy married to Loweezy (the one with the red shirt and saggy boobs). In fact, I know for sure that that is who Snuffy is. But who in the world is Barney Google? I have no idea.
posted by big al at 7:36 PM
1 Comments:
I don't know who Barney Google is, but I hate him. The whole family can go to damnation.
The language they use reminds me of a not-so-famous one-time celebrity, Britney's first husband, who stated: "Britney, look what we done did!" in reference to their wedding. Maybe he learned to read and write by opening up the comics' section.
John
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