• tygerprints
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    516 months ago

    You’ve never heard the expression, “how now, brown cow?” It used to be something people said all the time, it’s just a silly phrase meaning “how’s everything going.” He’s just playing around with the phrase “how now brown cow.”

      • Aa!
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        46 months ago

        “How now” is a phrase that goes back to Shakespeare at least. The full phrase is nothing more than a silly rhyme, which was sometimes used as a vowel sound exercise in English education.

        It most certainly had nothing to do with mocking indigenous American speech patterns, and it does no one any favors to make connections like that where there are none.

      • tygerprints
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        06 months ago

        It is? I had no idea, I’d never heard of that before but it now I can see what you mean. I hope I haven’t been offending people by saying it!!

  • @[email protected]
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    186 months ago

    This is one of those stupid comics that has, of its own free will, randomly popped back into my head over the last 20 years.

    I had started to think it wasn’t real and I’d just misremembered a Far Side comic and now boom, it’s here like an awkward Christmas gift.

    • @[email protected]
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      36 months ago

      I bought the collection of far side back in the 90s, once it was finished. So none of these are new to me, but they still make me chuckle

  • @SonicBlue03
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    6 months ago

    Old people get this. I’m not saying if I did or not.

    Ok, fine… I got it.