Frank and Ernest by Thaves for November 21, 2016
November 20, 2016
November 22, 2016
Transcript:
Frank: I'm putting a decorative band up at the top of the wall. Ernie: Wow! This place is freezing over!
WOODNFLINT over 7 years ago
Paint faster……………… get going like a bat out of hell………
Toonerific over 7 years ago
Friezing: carved or painted work formerly decorating the upper parts of the hulls of vessels, especially in the 16th and 17th centuries. (It’s not funny if I have to go look up what the word means to get the joke!)
cubswin2016 over 7 years ago
That place froze over when the Cubs won the World Series.
Oge over 7 years ago
Getting old, I had to read it three times before I saw friezing instead of freezing.
neverenoughgold over 7 years ago
This truly beflorking!
AtypicalReader over 7 years ago
How funny this strip is, depends greatly on your knowledge of the English language. Some people won’t get the joke and will need to have it explained, others will get it on the first read-through.
stepham over 7 years ago
I thought it was brilliant; of course, I may know a thing or two about art.
hippogriff over 7 years ago
Toonerific
Considered essential on important buildings in ancient Greece, mostly stolen by Elgin. Note the front of the Supreme Court in Washington or the Parthenon replica in Nashville for US examples of this ornamentation.