According to Douglas Adams in ‘Last Chance To See’, it isn’t an author’s job to prop up stereotypes.
Of course, he pointed this out because he and his little group of English gorilla-watchers were being outclassed by German super-efficient, über-confident gorilla-watchers. He pointed out that it wasn’t his job to make them off-handedly arrogant and proficient just because they were German. So he decided that for the sake of the rest of the book, they’d be Latvian.
Maybe Erich isn’t smugly confident (how many people in this comic are smugly confident? Most of them?) and maybe he isn’t German.
Not my job to prop up stereotypes.
Now, about Mr. Biner…
Kara is not your *typical* American. The typical ones are the ones coming in second in the other events. (Or, first in the other events, too, because it’s funny.)
the visual of Mr. Biner taking the moron down a peg or twenty gave me an insta-mig of my own.
oi.
one would have thought that as a stereotype, smarts would have been in there Somewhere… at least enough not to get his egocentric toosh kicked into next week anyway.
something just came to me… we haven’t seen Lowell in a while… i forget… did the trash pandas run off with him or did he quit or…
~i think it was the ego thing that brought him to mind.~
The European Commission has announced an agreement whereby English will be the official language of the EU, rather than German, which was the other contender. Her Majesty’s Government conceded that English spelling had room for improvement and has therefore accepted a five-year phasing in of “Euro-English”.
In the first year, “s” will replace the soft “c”. Sertainly, this will make sivil servants jump for joy. The hard “c” will be dropped in favour of the “k”, Which should klear up some konfusion and allow one key less on keyboards.
There will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year, when the troublesome “ph” will be replaced with “f”, making words like “fotograf” 20% shorter.
In the third year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to reach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible. Governments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always ben a deterent to akurate speling. Also, al wil agre that the horible mes of the silent “e” is disgrasful.
By the fourth yer, peopl wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing “th” with “z” and “w” with “v”.
During ze fifz yer, ze unesesary “o” kan be dropd from vords kontaining “ou” and similar changes vud of kors be aplid to ozer kombinations of leters. After zis fifz yer, ve vil hav a reli sensibl riten styl. Zer vil be no mor trubls or difikultis and everivun vil find it ezi to understand ech ozer. ZE DREM VIL FINALI COM TRU!
[AllanCB]:
You obviously own a copy of this book:
[https://www.amazon.com/Stress-Analysis-Strapless-Evening-Gown/dp/0138526087]
😛
Never heard of it.
Is that where it originated? I first encountered it in a newsletter I once subscribed to, and is posted in numerous places online.
I think that I first saw it in High school or college (in the early 70s…)
How many Germans does it take to change a lightbulb?
One, they are very efficient people.
How do you get fifty Germans out of a swimming pool in five minutes?
Tell them the pool is closing in ten.
Dad just didn’t want his daughter jailed for “Killink Heem”
Don’t mess with Karabug!
Don’t even call her Karabug; that might get you into just as much trouble (or nearly) as messing with her.
Daughter: Dad, I’m having guy problems.
Dad: What kind of problems? He won’t fit in a duffel bag problems, or you like him problems?
In this case, he won’t fit in a duffel bag, or at least he wouldn’t before Daddy Biner got hole of him.
I would of loved to see Mr .Biner tackling Erich. XD
I think Kara stuffs her own duffel bags, and her father would just beam proudly over what his little Karabug can do, a chip off his block….
Yeah, what he said, I would’ve loved to see the tackle.
(spent day hiking Muir Woods…. wonder if Erich could climb one of those, especially with Mr. Biner after him)
Mr. Biner took offense to him saying Kara wasn’t American.