August 2007 Blog Posts Note: Some links may no longer work
Monday, August 27, 2007 Turning Baldo into classwork. Yea! I have been enjoying the Pitos in my local newspaper in Allendale NJ and have decided to make them a part of my high school Spanish class. We will be studying humor in October, and students will be asked to create a "pito" and send to you. They are 11th graders and I'm hoping they will enjoy this humorous espanglish. Do you have an archive of samples I may show them? If it is possible, if you might send a note in Spanish that I can share with the class to prepare for this topic, they would be thrilled! Thank you in advance. ------------------------------------------------------------- Post by D. Bono at 7:01PM. Comments to baldomail@baldocomics.com.
COMMENTS ¦First off, tell your students we're sorry! We didn't mean to be a new way to give students work! Ack! We hope you'll make it fun and give an 'A' to everyone who spells their name right on the class work. Anyway, we do not have an archive of Pitos, tho we're getting lots of requests for one. It's a lot of work! We'll try to do it. As for that Spanish note to your class, how about: Las finanzas están apretadas pero sigues pensando en darte gustos gastando en cosas innecesarias. Bueno, sigue adelante a ver qué pasa. Post by HCantu.
Last batch of Pitos ... maybe We have a few more reader Pitos to pass along:
longshotote - in horseracing an entry with high odds; 50-1 or more. -- Manuel, El Paso, TX
aftrue - what you REALLY should have said to your friends (after they are out of hearing distance or ear-shot!) -- Antoinette White, Helendale, CA
soafusion - the act of combining a wet, old and disintegrating piece of soap onto a fresh new bar of soap eventually resulting into a giant mass of soap. Do you soafuse? -- John J. O'Dea, Arlington, MA
que soflamer - for someone who is a soflamera or over exaggerating. -- Belinda Arredondo, Los Fresnos, TX
podium-ista (noun) - a politician (ala Mayor Chavez, Albuquerque) who upon spying a camera, any camera, immediately sets up his portable podium and starts talking, doesn't necessarily say anything, just talks. - Jo
cancelectomy – when the Dr. cancels your appointment. I work at an out patient surgery center and when a surgery gets canceled, the nurse came up with the word ‘cancelectomy.’ When she relays the info to the fron office, she always says "I have a cancelectomy.” We love it so much it’s an everyday word for us now. -- Linda Tusler & Julie Patterson
buscarri- the dream car that you're always looking forward, but your Papí won't let you have! (a play on the words, buscar, to search, and Ferrari, the fancy car). -- Moshe and Eli Hamaoui, Salem, OR
phoshing - obsessive cleaning of a mobile phone device utilizing one’s shirt tail. -- Britt Bacon, Northridge, CA
esnuglear - a verb (conjugated as all "ar" verbs) describing what two people do on a cold North American night. This is a common Spanglish-pito word we use in our house. Your comic is new to our paper, Delaware News Journal. -- Chris Baron
Thanks everyone for sending in your Pitos. We'll pick our favorites to perhaps turn into a Baldo comic in the future! ------------------------------------------------------------- Post by HCantu at 6:42PM. Comments to baldomail@baldocomics.com.
Does this qualify as a Pito? ¡Oye, hombres! My computer has been so flooded with e-mail lately -- you know what I'm talking about! The viagra ads, the replica watches, the latest "Prince IwannaUmonnie needs to transfer a million dollars into your bank account ..." I realised esta mañana that all this spam makes me so e-rritated!!! Si, eso es correcto folks, you heard it here first! E-rritated! Does that qualify as a Pito? Love ya! P.S. Ooops about Tia Carmen ordering the 30 milliones discos de Tito Puente! That cracked me up because I've done similar on line goof ups! Juanes has me to thank personally for his increased sales! (Tell him he can call me any time!) ------------------------------------------------------------- Post by Catharine Espinosa at 6:31PM. Comments to baldomail@baldocomics.com.
Sunday, August 26, 2007 That's why we like moms! When I was younger, there was one Pito that stood out among the rest of them. The word was used whenever we needed a ride somewhere but didn't have a car so we had to ask someone. So the conversation went a little like this... "Hey Mom, can you give me a ride to the mall?" "No!" "But how am I supposed to get there?" "In your patamobile!!" ------------------------------------------------------------- Post by Victor M. Lopez at 8:50PM. Comments to baldomail@baldocomics.com.
Saturday, August 25, 2007 Southerner is taken aback Dear sirs, I enjoy your comic strip. It is original and entertaining. However, as a Southerner I was greatly taken aback at Wednesday's (Aug 22) slur on Southerners. For a strip with Spanish-speaking characters - who are much misunderstood - this seemed a little beyond the pale. I saw the humor in it, of course, even though the insinuation that "Southern" does not equal "English" was a curious theme for a joke. Furthermore, no Southerner would say what the Annie character said in that situation. This unfortunate oversight made it that much more puzzling. Your readers will most probably overlook this (I certainly will), but I humbly request that you consider learning at least one thing that Southerners do in fact do: be nice. ------------------------------------------------------------- Post by Jonathan C. at 10:23AM. Comments to baldomail@baldocomcs.com.
Thursday, August 23, 2007 Why not accents for Mexicans? I like your comic strip but it bothers me that it's OK to make fun of certain groups of people. How about I do a weeks' worth of strips making fun of Mexicans? Why is it funny to promote stereotypes and bigotry of some groups like Southerners but not others? I'm sure you will see nothing wrong with what you did but whatever logic you use, it will be the same logic used to put down Hispanics. Thanks for listening. ------------------------------------------------------------- Post by Kevin T. at 1:19PM. Comments to baldomail@baldocomics.com.
COMMENTS ¦Guys, guys, guys! Don't you think your arguments would hold more weight if you read that entire series to see THAT WE DID INCLUDE A SPEEDY GONZALES MEXICAN! Dag nabbit, people! Eeet eees craaaazeee! Not only did we do a Southern accent, we did a Spanish accent too! On top of that, the two characters ARE MARRIED! There! Is everyone offended now?!?! Post by HCantu.
¦I am pleased to see that I was not the only Southron who took offense at your descent into regionalism. Regarding your response (that you did also include a "Speedy Gonzales-speaking" male character) ... said individual was neither portrayed as ditzy nor stupid ... which cannot be said for his poor spouse. It is not the attempt to phonetically represent a Southern accent (which y'all blew bigtime ... sounded more "Ozark"), but rather the characterization of pretty much the very first Southerner I have seen in your strip as an oblivious, socially inept, perhaps mentally impaired individual. Again, thanks for the smiles you give me, but (if I may be permitted a Pito), of "isming" yourselves. Post by John Butler.
You fellers seeee-uck sumtin awfl Lookie, fellers, ah knows y'all prolly doan reeleyes the kine o' staireeohtippeecal karp y'all bin prommlegittin, heah, But don't you think this is the wrong tack for you to take? I mean, how would you like it if some strip represented all Latino dialog phonetically to represent the speech patterns of Speedy Gonzales? Would that be okay? I was born in the South, and my "at home" speech is fairly well laced with a Southern accent, through no fault of my own. At the same time, through my college and professional career, I have had to learn to speak Standard English, which is actually a Mid-western accent BTW, just to be taken seriously. And that has always rankled. Do/did you regard Professor Shelby Foote to be "impaired" simply because he spoke with a noticeable regional dialect? I think not! Anyway, I generally enjoy your strip (which I have to view on-line since our local paper is fairly lame), but you and other comic artists seem to think that, while racism, sexism, classism, and all the other "isms" are bad, it's somehow okay to stereotype Southerners as peculiar and handicapped. Think about it, will you? It's pretty ironic. -------------------------------------------------------------Post by John Butler at 6:38AM. Comments to baldomail@baldocomics.com.
Wednesday, August 22, 2007 Live Web chat on Thursday! Hey everyone. We invite you to participate in a LIVE WEB CHAT on Thursday morning, at 9 am Eastern Time (8 am Central Time and 6 am on the West Coast). Go to: http://webchat.state.gov You have to sign up, but you don't have to give a lot of info. It's easy! Then get into the chat and ask us embarrassing questions! Yee-uh! It's part of the Department of State’s Webchat program, which allow "audiences to interact with American citizens on a wide range of topics. U.S. government and private sector subject experts, academics, journalists, and everyday citizens engage in Public Diplomacy from the moment they log in." Do it! ------------------------------------------------------------- Post by HCantu at 11:04PM. Comments to baldomail@baldocomics.com.
Tuesday, August 21, 2007 Yo, new Delaware Baldo-heads!! Greetings to all you new Baldo-heads! We've been added to the comics pages of The News Journal in Delaware. Furserious!! Woo-hoo!! We'll have you guys spouting Pitos in no time, right? Read the interview we did with reporter Victor Greto here. Victor did a great job, though we're disappointed he didn't include the story about how we made a bottle of soy sauce disappear last week ... without drinking it! Betsy Price also wrote a nice story announcing the addition of Baldo (see it here). Though she didn't mention the soy sauce either. ------------------------------------------------------------- Post by HCantu at 11:37PM. Comments to baldomail@baldocomics.com.
Hey you big dummies FYI: No word in Spanish — or in pretend-Spanish!—carries two accents, thus "smartóte" would have one on the "O", but not not on both the "o" and the "e." ------------------------------------------------------------ Post by Luis Torres at 7:19AM. Comments to baldomail@baldocomics.com.
COMMENTS ¦Hey, we just made up a new Pito! accenlócós -- People who don't know how to use Spanish accents properly! Post by HCantu.
We're heading to Puebladelphia! I am a big fan of BALDO and read it every day in the newspaper here in Philadelphia, PA. I just finished a three-year job as a nonprofit immigration paralegal, so many of your comic strips have reflected situations our clients have faced every day. I was always grateful that a nationally syndicated comic strip could portray these issues sympathetically, in the face of rising xenophobia in the mainstream media. Here is a "PITO" I've heard in my practice. Puebladelphia - That part of South Philadelphia populated mostly by immigrants from Puebla, Mexico. Thanks for listening, and for the great work! ------------------------------------------------------------ Post by Susanna at 7:07AM. Comments to baldomail@baldocomics.com.
Reader just doesn't get it Okay, I've consulted all my Spanish speaking friends and they don't know what Condisplado means. Please clarify. If the non-Spanish speaking can't get it and the Spanish speaking can't get it, it's just not that good. Please add translations so we all can enjoy. ------------------------------------------------------------ Post by Kate at 7:01AM. Comments to baldomail@baldocomics.com.
Monday, August 20, 2007 We're always getting ripped off! Is it a coincidence that u and Muttscomics had a strip today about vacation homes? Well i dont care if there is or not but I did LOVE todays strip. It totally rings true for my family. How can i get a print out to frame and hang in our cabin? Thanks 4 keeping me laughing. ------------------------------------------------------------- Post by CS at 11:29PM. Comments to baldomail@baldocomics.com.
COMMENTS ¦Those Mutts characters are always copying our schtuff! Dang! If you want a framed copy of that strip, whip out your credit card and call Universal Press Syndicate at 1-800-255-6734 ext. 6688.
What's with these anglecismos? I am a 58-yr.old Mexican-American with an MA in Bilingual/Bicultural Studies. Unfortunately, I did not complete my Ph.d in Biculcuturalism! I am dark-skinned and still use Royal Crown Hair Dressing to comb my hair. Why the background information? Simple. I don't want you to think that this commentary is directed at you from some disgruntled subscriber. I appreciate your comic character "Baldo". However, as a member of a generation whose parents made sure that education and unaccented speech was the top priority I don't agree with your promotion of code switching/anglecismos. It's bad enough many of our children can't seem to be proficient in either English or Spanish; now your "promo" is encouraging "Hispanics" (their term not mine) to send in (and create) fatherless words and phrases! Please encourage something else. Oh! By the way! I still reside within a so-called inner-city school district and I grew up in the barrio. I'm not trying to be "Hi-toned"; I'm just sick of poor grammar. Thank You. ------------------------------------------------------------ Post by Paul Silva at 10:54PM. Comments to baldomail@baldocomics.com.
More reader Pito submissions We got some reader submitted Pitos to burn off! So without further adieu ...
fridayitis - when you're too 'sick' to work on Friday and may last through Monday and morph into Mondayitis. -- submitted by Terri Glaser, Simi Valley, CA
parentnoid - the constant worry from a parent your children will get hurt in some way, shape, or form. -- Madison, Philadelphia, PA
faucetta - Some of your older readers might enjoy this one. This is a reference to the actress Farah Faucett. A conceited female is called "Faucetta". Thanks for your great comic strip! -- Mike Romero, Albuquerque, NM
nuggles - Hey, just picked up the strip. Lovin' it! Saw your thing for Pitos: words that should be in the dictionary but aren't. In our house, we created the world "nuggles" for having a lot of water up your nose when you go swimming (e.g., "Man, I've got some serious nuggles right now."). I don't know if you can use that, but I thought I'd throw it out there. Keep up the awesome writing! -- Steve Devereaux, Jackson, MI
cheeps - what your appetizer is at a Mexican restaurant. "Queres Cheeps?" -- Jon Heredia, Fresno, CA
tiene FLU-JERA - when a person is too lazy to go to work and calls in sick. -- David Arredondo, Lordsburg, NM man-yawn-a (pronounced mañana) - not today ... perhaps tomorrow. -- Steve Cosio, Mansfield, TX
carpendejo - Hey Baldo! Cross a not very smart carpenter or carpentero with a dummy or pendejo and you get the Pito “carpendejo.” -- Mark Hall, Round Rock, TX, formerly from El Valle De Alegre
sininsensibility - knowing something is wrong, smelling trouble, but not being able to keep from doing it anyway. -- Janet Fox, Panama, OK left-novers - when there is no food left in the house to make a balanced meal! -- Kristy Vos, Cypress, CA
culossal - how you describe someone with an oversided butt. "She is one culossal chick" lentejo - what you might want to call a driver who is slow and stupid. (Combines lento and pendejo. Pendejo might be problematic because of its various uses. It commonly describes someone who is stupid, silly, irresponsible, etc.) -- Jim
frinkles - those wrinkly marks you get on your fingers when you are in water too long (bathtub, swimming pool...) -- Kerry Flores, Long Beach, CA
carpen-tonto - My dad thought he was a good carpenter but when his project would come out all wrong, my mom would call him a carpen-tonto. -- Richard Hernandez Hernandez, San Antonio, TX, Home of the SPURS
junkaria - all those knick knacks we have all over the place, what some of us call chatchkes. -- Marilyn, Winter Springs, FL
ay te watcho - instead of sayiing "ay te miro" or "see you later," my father in law used to say "AY TE WATCHO." -- Charlene Gallegos Siembida, Tijeras, NM
groh-teskities -- the organisms found living on a Gym floor primarily mutated from drops of sweat, dust and dead flaked off skin. -- as heard by Maggie from Dave in Devon, PA
sockatines - When I was young, wayyyyyy back circa 1958, my older brother, Gilbert and I just came up with the word "sockatines" for socks to explain to my mother, who at that time didn't speak English. Mex-Tex wording! Calsatines/Socks= Sockatines! -- David V.
yarda - yard sale. Most latinos say they bought something on Saturday morning at a Yarda. "Lets go to a yarda." -- Lucy DeJoseph, Bellflower, CA
OK, we're tired! We'll post more reader Pitos in the next few days. ------------------------------------------------------------ Post by HCantu at 10:15PM. Comments to baldomail@baldocomics.com.
Where did 'Pitos' come from? I'm curious to know where you got your idea for Pitos and how long you've been doing it. ------------------------------------------------------------ Post by Bobbie Martin at 8:10PM. Comments to baldomail@baldocomics.com. COMMENTS ¦Ha! Ha! Ha! What a great question! Let's see ... when I was 6 years old back in 1973, my grandmother would make up all kinds of crazy words that were half Spanish and half English. She was soooooooo clever! I asked her one day, "What do you call your funny made-up words that we all laugh at, abuela?" And she answered "Pitos!" Then we smelled something funny and we all laughed. Ha! It was a pito we know as a "poochi grande!" Post by HCantu.
Keep doing more hello, this is Devin from Albuquerque NM. i think the baldo comic strips are very funny. i hope you do more! ------------------------------------------------------------ Post by Devin at 8:03PM. Comments to baldomail@baldocomics.com.
COMMENTS ¦Don't worry Devin. We're contractually obligated to keep doing Baldo until we die, at which point our children will take over and everybody will be sick of us. Post by HCantu.
Saturday, August 18, 2007 Car lady can be 'jefoso' My friend Sonia, from El Salvador, and I were driving in her car, and the direction-finder was turned on to tell us how to get to her house. I thought the woman's voice was "bossy", and wanted to share the joke with Sonia, but did not know a word for "bossy" in Spanish, and she did not understand it in English. So we started talking about the word "boss", which she knew in both languages, and then whether there was a form of "jefe" that means "bossy". When I suggested "jefoso" she got the meaning, and the joke! As an ESOL teacher and member of a multilingual community, I really enjoy your comic strip, and often use it to connect with my students. Is there a book of Baldo that I can share with them? Not many read the Washington Post, even for the comics. Thank you for a wonderful, heartwarming Latino family in the U.S. ------------------------------------------------------------- Post by Barbra L. at 12:40PM. Comments to baldomail@baldocomics.com.
Friday, August 17, 2007 Zing! That's a shocking line Ouch. That really hurt, guys. And I'm definitely going to use that line at the first opportunity. I enjoy the strip, and I've got both books. Questions (if you can answer): Is Smiley ever coming back, or has Baldo moved on? Are you EVER going to let Baldo get a car, or is it always going to be a "Charlie Brown never gets to kick the football" thing? And, lastly, any more books in the works? Keep up the good work. ------------------------------------------------------------- Post by Ron J. at 12:51PM. Comments to baldomail@baldocomics.com.
COMMENTS ¦Ron, to answer your questions: - Probably not. - We think he's moved on. - Maybe. - We can't hope to be like the great Sparky Schulz. - Maybe. We'll let you know. Post by HCantu.
¦Smiley MUST come back! She cannot be left as the "bad" person she turned into. We have to know why she became that and she has to come back to some semblance of normal. I loved Smiley (as you know) and her story must have closure. Post by Will.
Thursday, August 16, 2007 Thanks for the good times Hi guys, just a quick line to let you know I really enjoyed today's strip in which they talk about the "billions of dollars" that Hispanics spend on ecommerce after Tia Carmen mistakenly bought 30 million copies of Tito Puente's CD... That was hilarious, and really insightful for those of us who are tired of marketers thinking about Hispanics - or people in general - in terms of how much we spend... Thanks for the good times! ------------------------------------------------------------- Post by Raúl at 2:06PM. Comments to baldomail@baldocomics.com.
Ready for the Pitos book Hi. I really like the Pitos that people send in and have been clipping them to save when I see them. Have you published a collection of them somewhere? Or is there somewhere on the site that has them gathered up? They are great! I'm an ESL teacher and love your comic strip. ------------------------------------------------------------ Post by Ginny at 7:32AM. Comments to baldomail@baldocomics.com.
COMMENTS ¦That's an awesome idea, Ginny! We're so ahead answering all our email that certainly we have time to put together a Pitos area on this site. Look for it! Sometime next year! Post by HCantu.
Where's Roberto Bear? Love your strip, Pitos, etc. Try to work on something like: 'Roberto Bear' translates to 'Bob Oso' or other such nonsense. ------------------------------------------------------------ Post by Frank Lopez at 7:27AM. Comments to baldomail@baldocomics.com.
COMMENTS ¦Do y'all follow the SCIFI Channel series "Eureka"? One of last month's episodes, "Noche de Sueños", featured the handsome & talented Colin Cunningham (of "black Irish" heritage) as Dr. Paul Sueños, a sleep /dream state researcher. (Disclaimer: I'm a member of Colin Cunningham Fans Yahoo Group.) Check out Colin's blog about his festival short film, CENTIGRADE. Centigrade Back to the 70's again for a couple of code-switching stories. One of my classmates in high school Spanish was a baseball player. He brought up the great catcher Johnny Bench at every opportunity. When asked to compose a report in Spanish, it was on "Juan Banco, el gran catcher de béisbol". And then there was the time I wrote a parody for an English class in the style of Jorge Luis Borges, the Argentinean author. Couldn't decide on a topic, and time was running short. Then Jim Croce's "Bad, Bad Leroy Brown" was played on the radio. A few quick translations later, I had something to hand in, at least. Thought it wasn't my best work, that it was too derivative. A few days later, the teacher surprised me by asking me to read the paper aloud -- a compliment reserved for those who received his very rare As. I was in shock, as well as frightened...not big on public speaking back then. As I read the words <<perro de la chatarrería>>, I heard the only Hispanic classmate giggle...she got it! I still have that paper...! Post by Gilder.
Pitos are mean, racist Shame on you !!!!!!! First of all, Pitos means whistle; and making fun of an ethniticity, or a race, or a nationality, is rude, mean and racist .............. special if you are one of them. Baldo and his family are a very nice people, do not discredit them; don't make fun of them. ------------------------------------------------------------ Post by AnotherSpanicPerson at 7:23AM. Comments to baldomail@baldocomics.com.
He wants to be a cartoonist! I'm 14 years old and here is my Pito: centolino - phases and feelings by adults that kids don't care about. I hope you'll consider it. I'll be watching the newspaper. And I'd just like to say that I want to be a cartoonist too when I grow older. ------------------------------------------------------------ Post by Giancarlo C. at 7:20AM. Comments to baldomail@baldocomics.com.
COMMENTS ¦Giancarlo: Thanks for your Pito! That's cool that you want to be a cartoonist. Carlos and I were just like you. We wanted to make a living drawing when we were 14, too. Don't give up your dream. Keep drawing, keep practicing, keep writing! Post by HCantu.
¦Dudes, I'm so excited real cartoonists answerd back! thamks for giving my pito some thought, and thanks for encouraging me to be like you! i know your busy but maybe you could write me back somtimes to like encourege me! Post by Giancarlo C.
Are you ready to get pito-ized? We printed Pitos earlier this week and, sure enough, you guys don't let us down. Here are the first reader-suggested Pitos to come in. We'll print more later!
messo-chica - the common function of kids making such a big mess in such little time. -- joe cain
pilobilus - when you're really hungry for some kind of food but you don't know what it is you're hungry for. -- Dave Steinmetz
besoquiando - Lots of kissing, necking. la nalgatoria - a woman's pompas, rear end equipment -- Lyn Ferreiro
phobia-de-los-años - a condition where the effected experiences extreme fear when asked to recall anything about their current age. perróta - a condition where the affected continuously calculates their age in dog years. -- Nina Shulgach, Allendale, NJ
esplatulate - the act of squashing a large sandwich down to make it easier to eat. This was said by my dad on a vacation trip while eating in the car - "Put some chips in the sandwich and esplatulate it." -- Timothy Guerra, San Juan Texas
shoeteria - a place to buy shoes. -- Leticia Lopez, Whittier, CA
exlaxia - affliction caused by an anorexic brain and a bulimic mouth. Syn: Foot in Mouth disease; diarrhea of the mouth. -- Nancy Keon, Tewksbury MA
noob - a person that is new to a game, school, event, sport etc. is mostly the one cheering on without having a clue what he/she's doing, asking pro video gamers for cheats, Or reading a manual about the game. -- Christina Perez, Miami, FL ------------------------------------------------------------ Post by HCantu at 7:14AM. Comments to baldomail@baldocomics.com.
Wednesday, August 15, 2007 Influential artist passes on Not sure if you heard, but comic artist Mike Wieringo died suddenly of a heart attack on Sunday, at the age of 44! (See story here). He was probably most famous for drawing The Flash in the '90s, but co-created (and drew) the series Tellos and over the past decade was the longtime artist of Legion of Superheroes, Fantastic Four and Spider-Man. Great artist ... it's a shame. I was a big fan of his work and followed his blog fairly regularly. Here's his web site. ------------------------------------------------------------ Post by CCastellanos at 9:18PM. Comments to baldomail@baldocomics.com.
Saturday, August 11, 2007 Whatever happened to Tia Carmen? Gentlemen, I love your Baldo strip. A few months ago, Immigration came and took Tia Carmen. Whatever happened after they took her? I never saw any more strips about it. Thanks. ------------------------------------------------------------ Post by Ben L. at 1:43PM. Comments to baldomail@baldocomics.com.
COMMENTS ¦Ben, that was our notorious April Fools' day strip, which obviously people are still talking about. We suggest you read our April blog archives (beginning with April 2 entries). Post by HCantu.
Monday, August 6, 2007 What about Yiddish Pitos? RE: Call for Pitos in The Washington Post. Don't know if these Yiddish words are in the dictionary. Jewish people use them all the time. Yiddish = English Shluf = Sleepy Shluffy person sleeps a lot Shmutz = Dirt Something is dirty Kvetch = Whiner/Cryer Person who complains all the time Klutz = Person who bumps into every everything Klutzy Nosh = Nibbles food all the time Nosher, noshes everything ------------------------------------------------------------ Post by Sharyn F. at 8:31AM. Comments to baldomail@baldocomics.com.
Wednesday, August 1, 2007 Passing of an influential cartoonist Fontanarrosa era un dibujante argentino y entre sus personajes mas famosos estaba el gaucho Inodoro Pereyra, quien tenia su muy fea mujer: Eulogia y su aun mas ironico perro, que por supuesto hablaba: Mendieta. Fontanorrosa fallecio la semana pasada y miles de personas lo llevaron al cementerio. Las siguientes son algunas de sus cientos de frases o dialogos: 1.- Dígame don Inodoro ¿usté está con la Eulogia por alguna promesa? - Mendieta , uno se deslumbra con la mujer linda, se asombra con la inteligente... y se queda con la que le da pelota. 2.- Vago no, quizá algo tímido para el esjuerzo. 3.- Estoy comprometido con mi tierra, casado con sus problemas y divorciado de sus riquezas. 4.- ¿Y usted cómo se gana la vida? ¿Ganar? ¡De casualidá estoy sacando un empate! 5.- ¿No andará mal de la vista, don Inodoro? Puede ser. Hace como tres meses que no veo un peso. 6.- ¿Por qué esta agresión gratuita? ¡Si quiere se la cobro! 7.- El pingüino es monógamo. ¿Y por qué cree que le dicen Pájaro Bobo? 8.- Con la verdá no ofendo ni temo. Con la mentira zafo y sobrevivo, Mendieta. 9.- La historia lo juzgará. Pero tiene el mejor de los abogados: el olvido. 10.- Eso de "hasta que la muerte los separe" es una incitación al asesinato. ------------------------------------------------------------ Post by Jorge K at 8:50AM. Comments to baldomail@baldocomics.com.
