Teeka (Okay, Ada) Swears Like a Sailor Who’s Also a Bunny
Everything that I said yesterday about Teeka that I really should have been saying about Amanda Lynn? It applies today, about Teeka Ada this time. (At least, I hope it’s Teeka. This is just embarrasing now.)
Yes, today we learn that Teeka Ada can swear. Teeka Ada can swear like a sailor. Well, Teeka Ada can swear like a sailor who’s also a bunny.
I suppose nitpickers might wonder which profanity she’s using that needs to be bleeped out. I don’t know of any individual curse words that could replace “Isn’t that nice” in the way that she’s using it. That would leave profanity-laced phrases like “Blow it out your ass, sack-chin”, any number of which might fit, but I don’t think it’s quite fair to count those. They contain an awful lot of information to be replaced by simply a lightning bolt, a bull, and Saturn.
Today we also see the depths of the Kleeb family wealth, as we discover that Horatio gave Sturdy four major businesses at age 20, presumably before he had even started falsely claiming that he had graduated from Harvard, Princeton, Yale, Duke, and/or UCLA. That’s just irresponsible parenting. I want my CEOs to be able to drink, dammit!
Of course, in this specific instance, I would prefer to know which building, railroad, airline, and other airline Sturdy owns. I would not want to enter, ride, ride, or ride any of them. Not out of protest, but out of fear of disaster caused by his mismanagement and needless focus on his college sweatshirts.
Finally: Finishing school? As an adult with kids of your own, shouldn’t you be going to finished school instead? Or is Teeka just an underage trophy bride bought by mail for eight bucks and a carton of smokes?
(Ed: I realize that that last graf is no longer precisely relevant, now that I’ve been corrected and realize that it’s actually Ada. But I like the imagery, and I think it is a legitimate question, so I’m letting it stand.)
Actually, I think this one’s the other daughter. Teeka’s the one that I keep thinking is blind because she doesn’t have eyes drawn on her…
Comment by Dave — April 18, 2008 @ 12:02 pm
Uhh… yeah. Sorry again.
Clearly a) updating during lunch hour and b) attempting to identify characters by name doesn’t work.
Comment by greglandgraf — April 18, 2008 @ 4:15 pm
She’s saying “Isn’t that nice.” because she’s too polite to say “Bullshit.” Ada has caught on to the musical college sweaters, and knows that he’s a fake.
Comment by rabrab — April 18, 2008 @ 7:17 pm
I’d like to take a sizable bet on “Bullshit” as well. The pictographs at least hint towards that view, and it really does seem the appropriate word.
Also, a finishing school? A family that has trouble with the idea of Gourmet food is dropping a hefty chunk of change on finishing school?
I may just be influenced by my eurocentric concept of finishing school, but last I checked, it was a term meaning “a school that teaches wealthy daughters how to do bugger all, but in a ladylike way”. Although the idea of this family actually being eccentric old money is kinda amusing.
Comment by Michael — April 18, 2008 @ 10:59 pm
Unless I’m completely mis-remembering, the Wallets haven’t been poor in a dog’s age (if they ever were). Unpretentious, unsophisticated, and not too clever, yes, but not poor. Walt owned a furniture store, Skeezix owned the garage/auto repair, Corky owned a diner, Adam owns a farm. For sons to own businesses completely unrelated to the business that their father owned is pretty strong evidence that there’s money in the family.
So the money for Ada to go to college or finishing school isn’t a problem for me.
The other thing is that (unlike the Pattersons in FBoW,) the various Wallet parents have generally seemed to accept that their children are going to make their own decisions about what they want to do with their lives. Amanda likes working n the farm, Ada wants to do something else, and Adam and Teeka are cool with it.
Comment by rabrab — April 19, 2008 @ 10:10 am
the ‘that’s nice’ is from an old joke. two girls who knew each other years ago area catching up; one says ‘i have a new car’ and the other says ‘that’s nice’. ‘my husband bought me a new house.’ ‘that’s nice.’ etc. at the end the one says to the other ‘why do you keep saying ‘that’s nice?” and the other replies ‘because my mother sent me to finishing school and i learned to say ‘that’s nice’ instead of f*ck you!’ hardee har har :)
Comment by liz — April 25, 2008 @ 10:23 pm
[...] But ultimately, rather than anger at the foolishness of the wind-down of this plotline, I’ve decided to take pleasure in just how much the characters are committing to it. Sure, Amanda Lynn thinks that this is the absolute nastiest thing she could ever say to our favorite philandering somnambulist, but we already knew that she isn’t so good with the whole English language thing. (If Sturdy were also a philatelist, or worse, a herpetologist, her head probably would have burst into a universe-destroying matter-antimatter matrix). In panel 3, however, we discover that this linguistic challenge is something of a Pye family tradition. Those Pyes are horrified that their sweet little not-exactly-relative could use such a horrifying obscenity. And without even having the decency to say it in humorous pictographs! [...]
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