One Big Happy by Rick Detorie for January 01, 2017

But it’s kind of funny, Dad…

Does anyone use the dictionary now days to check spelling or word definitions?

I believe you put a lobster into boiling water.

Mmmm, lobster. :)

Why is it the strip with the smallest font has no zoom?

Now we know the family surname. I thought they were Italian on the father’s side.

Shallows, ocean, Massachusetts, crustaceans, insects, restaurants and gradually.

Meanwhile, it’s the year in review in today’s strip at creators.com.

Joe has fine vocabulary, he just can’t spell.

Joe has an idea of the words he wants, but has a poor recollection of them like the word “gradually” after boil in P11

Joe you need a dictionary. Is that for a school report? Joe what do you know about lobster anyway?

You always cook a lobster by putting it head first into boiling water. Never cold water. And I always ask it for 3 wishes and when they are not granted -into the pot they go.

My son and I cannot play Scrabble peaceably because he uses Dictionary.com, and I use the old-fashioned Merriam Webster.

My vocabulary is larger tham the spell-check’s (at least for the words I use), so I have to keep 10th Collegiate close by.

And the Maine lobstermen that I know, do refer to catching them as “bugging”!