LINGUIST List 10.318

Fri Feb 26 1999

Disc: Re: 10.310, FYI: Linguistic humor

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Message 1: Linguistic humor

Date: Thu, 25 Feb 1999 09:30:42 -0500
From: Hutchinson, Larry <larryClaritech.com>
Subject: Linguistic humor

The Frank and Ernest cartoon Paul Chapin refers us to is a rerun! Jerry Sanders had it posted on his office door for so long it yellowed with age. (The rerun is now posted on MY office door.) I have e-mailed the author, Bob Thaves, about rerun policy, but he hasn't responded. I thought he might like to know there were linguists out there noticing his work.

Message 2: Linguistics humor

Date: Thu, 25 Feb 1999 09:39:14 -0500
From: Hutchinson, Larry <larryClaritech.com>
Subject: Linguistics humor

Oops! Bob Thaves DID reply to my question about his cartoon rerun policy, but I missed it. The reply was posted on one of his webpages. Here it is:

Updating the Archive by Bob Thaves, 2/10/99 Larry - On rare occasions cartoons are redrawn and distributed to newspapers if we receive inquiries from readers. Typically, these are strips that have enjoyed long-term placement on refrigerators or bulletin boards and have been lost or damaged. We also find that it can be kind of fun to see how the drawing style s changed!

Message 3: Linguistic humor

Date: Fri, 26 Feb 1999 14:59:48 +0800
From: Karen Steffen Chung <karchungccms.ntu.edu.tw>
Subject: Linguistic humor

> I highly recommend to all linguists the February 8, 1999 issue of the > "Frank and Ernest" comic strip. You can see it on-line at > http://www.frankandernest.com/cgi/view/recent.pl?99-02-08. > > Paul Chapin > ****************

Thanks, Paul, and it's worth checking out - if you haven't seen it before. But in the interest of honesty, I feel I should point out that it is recycled - I clipped and saved this one many, many years ago, back when I still read the funnies every day!

Karen Steffen Chung National Taiwan University karchungccms.ntu.edu.tw