Stone Soup by Jan Eliot for September 20, 2013

Did she say, “Li t’ me”?

@husky51

Than again maybe she fancies a sailor.

Limey is also slang for ’’Brit’’.

I don’t see anything funny in this strip.

@ellisaana(Reply to yesterday’s reply)Remember in one episode where Herr (Otto) Flick answered the phone like this…

“Flick the Gestapo…. No, I said FLICK, the Gestapo!"

“Limey” should be “Blimey”. Just sayin’

My dad was there during WWII, to England on the Queen Mary, then to north Africa, Sicily, and back to England for Operation Overlord..While in England Dad and some others over heard a woman say to the milkman “Don’t forget to knock me up in the morning.”.\\//_

Hey class dogs, day we all us be talkin ebonics.

Naval personnel ate limes to ward off scurvy, hence Limeys.

Hee hee hee! That was fun!

Correct. My dad was in England during WWll and, Limey was a slang/slur for the British. However, the accent thing does sound like fun. good teachers can go a long way to make things a bit more interesting for their classes.

BTW, “limey” has been used derogatarily, but not all Brits are sensitive enough to take it that way. It IS slang rather than necessarily a slur. Some of us of British ethnicity (I am Welsh on my father’s side) actually are more offended by the PC idea that you can’t use the term than we are by the term itself!

“Gor Blimey” is an……I guess you’d call it a contraction for the exclamation “God blind me.” So “Blimey” would just be “Blind me.”

Kind of like in the US when people say “’sup” instead of “what’s up.”

I am sure Jan meant to say ‘Blimey!" it’s taken from the entire east end quote as “God’ bloody blind me” as in God I don’t want to believe what I am seeing so shield my eyes. Now because bloody was considered a cuss word back in the day and women were too polite to cuss and children were banned from cussing the term was shortened to blimey. now if Jan meant it as “limey” then we do have a real issue here

Calling a Brit “Limey” is as big a slur as calling an American “Yank.” You be the judge.

BTW, I think Jan meant to say “Blimey” too.

For sure, gent!

I just love how Holly looks in the second panel. Perfect.

The British receptionist in my office told a rather depressed looking salesman, “Keep your pecker up!” I think he actually enjoyed it.