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14th January 11, 06:43 AM
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Being really pale and having red hair, I sort of identify with Mac to begin with. His unintelligible speech, which, I am informed, is "Mancusian", the native speech of Manchester, is fantastic.
Get Fuzzy is one of those comic strips that has that certain element of chaos that makes it appealing. Bloom County and Calvin and Hobbes had the same sort of theme and I miss them a lot. I would miss Get Fuzzy if I couldn't read it on the internet because the Chicago Tribune decided to drop it a while back...it probably got too expensive and they felt that they could do better with something from the bargain basement of comic strips.
Anyway, Mac has contributed several expressions to my personal vocabulary and it bears out the idea that there are some words that are just so appropriate that any kind of translation is unnecessary. "Chuffed" being one of them...
I already wear a big, grey hat like that and do the big-eyes-slack-jaw thing for my daughter's amusement...at least she gets it...but I always wanted the hat with the Man City patch on it to complete the look.
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AA
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14th January 11, 07:01 AM
#2
 Originally Posted by auld argonian
Being really pale and having red hair, I sort of identify with Mac to begin with. His unintelligible speech, which, I am informed, is "Mancusian", the native speech of Manchester, is fantastic.
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That was probably just a typo, but I believe its "Mancunian."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mancunian
- Justitia et fortitudo invincibilia sunt
- An t'arm breac dearg
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14th January 11, 07:21 AM
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Sorry...not a typo just "misremembered" the word...probably got shuffled up with "malthusian" in the windmills of my mind...
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