See? this is another example of how badly the B.C comic strip has lost its way. Greece and the Euro don’t come into being for at least another 10,000 years. The capitol of the B.C. comix used to be CLAMS. We miss you, Johnny!!
According to Fowler’s Modern English Usage, CapitAl should be distinguished from CapitOl The former being the most important town or city of a country or region. The latter being a building in which an American legislative body meets, the best known of which is in Washington DC. This means that Washington DC is a Capital containing a Capitol.
There are also the additional meanings of Capital punishment (death by execution) and of wealth as a potential investment.
The pun in the strip is correct. Robert Briggs and ‘hsawlrae’ are incorrect.
‘B.C’. is itself an anachronism as people living Before Christ were, mostly (apart from the Jewish prophets), unaware of that fact. The strip is a fantasy world ‘uunkoke’.
Poor Greece…country of eleven million with lots of expensive real estate(yum) gets persuaded by skunks currently working for the IMF to PUT ON THE OLYMPICS…!! And by the time they “built, bought, borrowed” enough to do THAT…(try to remember, you dim dolt) they were ready for the banksters to kill the rest of their economy and TAKE their heirlooms of democracy’s beginnings…
And it appears you’ve all bought it. Read up on LIBOR…they’ve screwed YOU too, and quite a bit.Of course you LOVE your Fox, currently explaining to the FBI about those phonehacks of democratic congressmen and blackmail…
Why has no one came up with the answer yet – Athens.(Get out a globe or world map and notice how many national capitals are practically within walking distance of 40 degrees North Lat.)
rcb528 almost 12 years ago
He said CAPITAL, not CAPITOL
Keith Peterson almost 12 years ago
See? this is another example of how badly the B.C comic strip has lost its way. Greece and the Euro don’t come into being for at least another 10,000 years. The capitol of the B.C. comix used to be CLAMS. We miss you, Johnny!!
revisages almost 12 years ago
the Your Owe currency
g.iangoodson almost 12 years ago
According to Fowler’s Modern English Usage, CapitAl should be distinguished from CapitOl The former being the most important town or city of a country or region. The latter being a building in which an American legislative body meets, the best known of which is in Washington DC. This means that Washington DC is a Capital containing a Capitol.
There are also the additional meanings of Capital punishment (death by execution) and of wealth as a potential investment.
The pun in the strip is correct. Robert Briggs and ‘hsawlrae’ are incorrect.
‘B.C’. is itself an anachronism as people living Before Christ were, mostly (apart from the Jewish prophets), unaware of that fact. The strip is a fantasy world ‘uunkoke’.
thirdguy almost 12 years ago
It’s only a comic strip.It’s only a comic strip.OK, I think I got it!
J Short almost 12 years ago
Grease? I think it’s somewhere in the Mideast.
Xane_T almost 12 years ago
I thought capital pun-ishment was when someone breaks your keyboard so you only type in all caps and then the internet hates you.
tigre1 almost 12 years ago
Poor Greece…country of eleven million with lots of expensive real estate(yum) gets persuaded by skunks currently working for the IMF to PUT ON THE OLYMPICS…!! And by the time they “built, bought, borrowed” enough to do THAT…(try to remember, you dim dolt) they were ready for the banksters to kill the rest of their economy and TAKE their heirlooms of democracy’s beginnings…
And it appears you’ve all bought it. Read up on LIBOR…they’ve screwed YOU too, and quite a bit.Of course you LOVE your Fox, currently explaining to the FBI about those phonehacks of democratic congressmen and blackmail…
Guillotines, the REAL cleansing solution.
Grumpy_Freeman almost 12 years ago
Thanks for the lift every morning in my email! I really get a good chuckle almost every time! I guess deep down I am really a caveman!
jtviper7 almost 12 years ago
Constantinople vs Istanbul.
tuslog64 almost 12 years ago
Why has no one came up with the answer yet – Athens.(Get out a globe or world map and notice how many national capitals are practically within walking distance of 40 degrees North Lat.)
REDROCKER51 almost 12 years ago
sooooooo…what’s the Capital of greece, anyway???
William Bednar Premium Member almost 12 years ago
Maybe Greece should revert to en even older currency, the Obol?
iced tea almost 12 years ago
Men and women didn’t live in caves in prehistoric Middle East either. They lived in tents.