Couldn’t think of anything to write for today’s comic. Apparently this is where my mind goes at the eleventh hour.
The title is great too.
If the bug in panel 4 is deaf, how come he can hear what the Anne Sullivan bug says?
He’s a great lip-reader.
A Blind lip-reader? Well, he must be really good at this.
When it’s your special talent, I guess you can accomplish amazing things. :p
I’m not sure if you know or not, but dumb is an old-timey word meaning mute. You probably do and it’s just for the joke, but there it is anyway!
That was the central joke in the strip!
I was hoping for a Pinball Wizard joke…
…also, isn’t “dumb” really just another word for “mute”?
In that context it was, IIRC.
I tried to make a title based on a Tommy reference but couldn’t think of one.
“Pinhead Wizard”? That’s all I’ve got.
Ooo! I like that one.
Personally, I think we’re using toilets backwards.
That tank lid would make a pretty useful little table.
I always thought that the first person to say “deaf and dumb” was making a dumb assumption because there are bound to be a handful of deaf-mute rocket scientists scattered about the world.
Now I want a McRib…THANKS ADAM…
Terribly sorry.
“Dumb = Mute” is where we get the word “Dumbstruck”, which means “Speechless”. Granted, few people use the word “dumbstruck” anymore.
And my great uncle was a deaf-mute. Until about 1980, even he self-identified as “deaf & dumb”. That’s about the time it morphed into “deaf & mute”.
So if he was a kid who was that kind of Deaf, Dumb, and Blind… Would he be the Pinhead Wizard?
Only if he solved the Lament configuration.
That’s a Shakira song – Bruta, ciega sordomuda (blind, deaf mute and dumb)
“deaf and dumb” usually meant those born deaf who never learned to speak rather than those who went deaf later in life and still could
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The title is great too.
If the bug in panel 4 is deaf, how come he can hear what the Anne Sullivan bug says?
He’s a great lip-reader.
A Blind lip-reader? Well, he must be really good at this.
When it’s your special talent, I guess you can accomplish amazing things. :p
I’m not sure if you know or not, but dumb is an old-timey word meaning mute. You probably do and it’s just for the joke, but there it is anyway!
That was the central joke in the strip!
I was hoping for a Pinball Wizard joke…
…also, isn’t “dumb” really just another word for “mute”?
In that context it was, IIRC.
I tried to make a title based on a Tommy reference but couldn’t think of one.
“Pinhead Wizard”? That’s all I’ve got.
Ooo! I like that one.
Personally, I think we’re using toilets backwards.
That tank lid would make a pretty useful little table.
I always thought that the first person to say “deaf and dumb” was making a dumb assumption because there are bound to be a handful of deaf-mute rocket scientists scattered about the world.
Now I want a McRib…THANKS ADAM…
Terribly sorry.
“Dumb = Mute” is where we get the word “Dumbstruck”, which means “Speechless”. Granted, few people use the word “dumbstruck” anymore.
And my great uncle was a deaf-mute. Until about 1980, even he self-identified as “deaf & dumb”. That’s about the time it morphed into “deaf & mute”.
So if he was a kid who was that kind of Deaf, Dumb, and Blind… Would he be the Pinhead Wizard?
Only if he solved the Lament configuration.
That’s a Shakira song – Bruta, ciega sordomuda (blind, deaf mute and dumb)
“deaf and dumb” usually meant those born deaf who never learned to speak rather than those who went deaf later in life and still could