In this morning’s crop of cartoons, a One Big Happy and a Bizarro:
(#1)
(#2)
In #1, Ruthie once again fails, unsurprisingly, to cope with things in a language other than English, in this case the Italian Che bellissima! Ruthie recognizes che as the personal name Kay, so of course bellissima must be a family name.
In #2, we have an outrageous portmanteau smitation, of (the archaic) smite and citation.
(If you’re puzzled by the odd symbols in the cartoon — Don Piraro says there are 3 in this strip — see this Page.)
