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on August 13, 2016 at 12:01 amChapter: Guess Who's Coming to Denver
Location: Squad 128's apartment
My pal Graham’s dad is an immigrant from the UK, and when I met him, I was addressed as my online handle. It was delightful.
I expressed my glee in comic strip form.
Edit: Graham got engaged today so huzzah
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My brain has started given Jason the voice of Nigel Uno
I’m thinking Simon Jones
James May.
Craig Charles.
“It’s not Cloister! It’s Lister! Lister the Stupid!”
Nah, I tend to hear Jason as Martin Freeman.
This strip reminded me of this.
Originally posted:
November 25, 2001
Also,
I might have been a little too childish to have appreciated this at the time it was originally made. What was your online handle?
I’ve only really known you as Willis.
I’ll give you a hint: It’s
Pregnancy??
Good to be King?
Monty Python’s Flying Circus?
How I imagine Jason became squad leader.
Big boss: Okay we need a new leader for squad 128, how about Walky?
Walky: I’m gonna eat nachitoes for breakfast!
Big boss: uh, no…Joyce?
Joyce: I can’t remember anything!
Big boss: Probably not. Mike?
Mike: I hate you all.
Big boss: Moving on, Sal?
Walky: She’s not here.
Big boss: Crap! Okay Jason is squad leader.
… it had never occurred to me that ‘Walky’ must sound more like ‘Wocky’ in Willis’ voice.
Wockerton. It’s Wocky.
Huh.
I’ve always pronounced it Wal-key
Why wouldn’t that be the default pronunciation? Walkerton is a real name, that’s how it’s pronounced where I am. And even before finding out it was short for a longer name, seeing ‘Walky’ just made me assume ‘walk, but with a y at the end’.
Because I’m British, and ‘walk’ is pronounced like ‘orc’ here. Walky rhymes with ‘war key’ or ‘World War Three’. (Struggling a bit for rhymes because Brit English doesn’t sound the ‘r’ at the end like some US accents do.)
I fact I’ve been trying to determine Graham’s dad’s accent from the comic. We’ve got about as many strong regional accents as the US does, in a land mass about half the size of California.
Ju-dy Ju-dy Ju-dy
– Larry Storch as Cary Grant preparing his accent
Tape of…?
“Surf’s up, space ponies — I’M MAKIN’ GRAVY WITHOUT THE LUMPS!!!!!”