True, they're a lot less interesting without the illustrations. But a book of a '70s or '80s strip called Mafalda makes me laugh a lot and I wanted to share a couple with you.
#1
Felipe is reading the comics and Mafalda is in a chair near him.
1- Mafalda: Listening to the readio has cleared up something in the Vietnam mess for me.
Felipe: Oh, really?
2- Mafalda. Yes! It seems that on one side are the "North Americans", right? and on the other side are the "North Vietnamese". Then there are the "South Vietnamese", that...
(Felipe listens)
3- Mafalda: ... firght agains the "Vietcong", which fights against the "Americans", which in their turn are against the "Communists". There's also "the Union", and then "the Reds", that...
(Felipe listens with widened eyes)
4- Final scene: Felipe running off yelling "Help!", leaving his chair overturned and comic lying on the floor. Mafalda watches him with a ?.
#2
1- Mafalda and Philip playing chess on the floor.
2- Mafalda's dad walks by and says, "Ahhh, chess! When I used to play it nobody could beat me."
3- Same scene as 1.
4- Same, except Mafalda remarks, "Do parents say those things so we'll admire them retroactively?"
3 comments:
I thought they were funny :-)
As to the last cartoon....parents say things like that because they can't resist letting their children know they were once young.
It also helps break in the offspring for later years, when the parents will be reminiscing BIG time.
Yeah, although we could also interpret it as bragging.
;)
Huh.
One person's interpretation of bragging could simply be another's attempt at fulfilling the public's right to know.
:-D
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