Times are tough

[Ole Nielsen]

Harry wrote:


> > Just as it would be very interesting to know what Donald's *real* answer
> in
> > the last panel of WDC 152 to the talking dog's "Times are tough, huh,
> > bud?". Not "You're not kiddin'!" which again has been lettered
> distictively
> > different.
>
> My first guess is "Shut up!", which is still considered too rude for
> children in the USA.
>

Why, of course! "Oh, shut up!" seems to fit with the bubble, and a
perfectly ironic comment in a story about a talking dog!
Case closed. :-)


> > Btw, doesn't an owl see in the dark and catch mice?
>
> "That is a correct answer, but not what I have on the card." - I hear that
> a
> lot in English quiz shows...


Then English (or perhaps you mean American) quiz shows are stupid. In my
country a correct answer is correct, even if it has to be verified later.
There are historic examples of quiz contestants being given a second
chance, when the quiz meister didn't recognize their answers to be equally
correct. But maybe that is only a thing of the past. Occasionally in
today's shows the questions are poorly phrased, and you have to guess the
question that *should* have been asked.

- ole
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