Nancy: Can we use the MEDICAL ENCYCLOPEDIA?
Aunt Fritzi: ?
Nancy: "C"... It's got to be under "C".....Let's see--- "COOTIES"....It's got to be here somewhere.
Back in the day of jungle gyms, seesaws and and swing sets on school playground and we had a good long recess after lunch to use them, “cooties” were what you got if a girl touched you.
Hope Nancy is just curious, and not in need of real advice. Nancy and Fritzi look like they are from two different eras and this is an episode of Back to the Future. Also hate to say it but Fritzi dresses a bit like a tart.
Remember cooties being mentioned in the movie The Roaring Twenties in a WWI foxhole scene with Jimmy Cagney and Humphrey Bogart.
Cooties are what you get when that boy kisses you when you are in the first grade and you have to pretend that you didn’t like it. “Oooooo, he gave me cooties”.
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blunebottle about 11 years ago
…..and they are needing to look this up, why?……..
blunebottle about 11 years ago
Oh, I knew what they were, all right. They just look awful cheerful about it…..
w2lj about 11 years ago
Didn’t know that – thanks!
Henry Robertson about 11 years ago
Always wondered about “cooties”
alleyoops Premium Member about 11 years ago
I’ll swap cooties with Frtizi anytime!
Potrzebie about 11 years ago
Cooties may come from WW I. It made appearances in the trenches and may be rooted in a foreign word similar: kute.
gcarlson about 11 years ago
We’d fold paper into “cootie catchers”, which could also be used to tell fortunes (the hows of making and using are a bit complex for this space).
gcarlson about 11 years ago
Incidentally, the PubMed database has nothing on cooties, but does list 550 medial journal articles on cookies.
Skywatcher68 about 11 years ago
You must have missed the strip in which she was reviewing “Thong Song”.
gocartmozart about 11 years ago
Miss Fritzi looks to have a Jayne Mansfield size waist.
yeahbutt about 11 years ago
Does Fritzi have an “elf” look to her today…or is it just me?
gimmickgenius about 11 years ago
“Schaper (pronouned ‘Shopper’) Always Leaves you Laughing – Ha ha ha ha ha ha!”
Can hardly believe I remember that ad jingle after all these years.
I Go Pogo about 11 years ago
Back in the day of jungle gyms, seesaws and and swing sets on school playground and we had a good long recess after lunch to use them, “cooties” were what you got if a girl touched you.
EEEeeeewwwwww!
brklnbern about 11 years ago
Hope Nancy is just curious, and not in need of real advice. Nancy and Fritzi look like they are from two different eras and this is an episode of Back to the Future. Also hate to say it but Fritzi dresses a bit like a tart.
Remember cooties being mentioned in the movie The Roaring Twenties in a WWI foxhole scene with Jimmy Cagney and Humphrey Bogart.
katina.cooper about 11 years ago
Cooties are what you get when that boy kisses you when you are in the first grade and you have to pretend that you didn’t like it. “Oooooo, he gave me cooties”.
GuyGilchrist about 11 years ago
Thanks for reading! Quite a bit of news about NANCY…..and I post it all at www.nancyandsluggo.com. I hope you’ll visit there often. Also, thanks to all who I hear from on Facebook and twitter! And THANK YOU for growing the readership of the strip on this site so we are now one of the most read strips every day!
rgcviper almost 5 years ago
Circle, circle, dot, dot …
Now you have your cootie shot!