Right Behind You 2013-02-22
Posted: Fri Feb 22, 2013 2:20 am
Atsali doesn't think of "down" as "out" or "safe", apparently.
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"We're going to get"? An Iowa-ism for "get going" or "get in there"? It's a turn of phrase I don't think I've ever heard before (west-coast-transplanted Philadelphian that I am).Wapsi wrote:I'm letting some of Kath's Southern Iowa side show in her lingo. ^_^
It is a regional usage. We're gonna get. Means RUN. Make Tracks. Scoot. Often used by grandma towards young kids by simply saying 'Git." Equally bad was 'Feets do you stuff!" or "Skedaddle".Dave wrote:"We're going to get"? An Iowa-ism for "get going" or "get in there"? It's a turn of phrase I don't think I've ever heard before (west-coast-transplanted Philadelphian that I am).Wapsi wrote:I'm letting some of Kath's Southern Iowa side show in her lingo. ^_^
The Texas equivalent is also "git!" or "go on, git!"--mayhap your grandma is from around them parts?zachariah wrote:It is a regional usage. We're gonna get. Means RUN. Make Tracks. Scoot. Often used by grandma towards young kids by simply saying 'Git." Equally bad was 'Feets do you stuff!" or "Skedaddle".Dave wrote:"We're going to get"? An Iowa-ism for "get going" or "get in there"? It's a turn of phrase I don't think I've ever heard before (west-coast-transplanted Philadelphian that I am).Wapsi wrote:I'm letting some of Kath's Southern Iowa side show in her lingo. ^_^
That could make her more interesting to some of the men she meets. In the past she's not really been sure what to do with male attention when she gets it... But she can't do without the hat; an adventuring archeologist needs a good hat.zachariah wrote:I wonder if Kath is going to show up in tight fitting black leather carrying a whip before this is over?
Major West: I'm going to try to break us out of the atmosphere.
John Robinson: No, we don't have enough core material for that.
Major West: Well, maybe if we catch one of the thermal...
John Robinson: No, it won't work. I *know*. We have to go... down. Through the planet as she's breaking up. We can use the planet's gravity...
Major West: What?
John Robinson: To throw us ut the other side and back into space!
Major West: That's insane!
John Robinson: I don't have time to argue.
zachariah wrote:If it's a huge round rock rolling down towards them Speilberg is going to sue.
I wonder if Kath is going to show up in tight fitting black leather carrying a whip before this is over?
Drops a rubber ball into the pun jar.
It's a giant snakeBoxilar wrote:Heh. Nice cliff hanger. Gotta wait all weekend to find out what "that" is.
Dammit.
"We need to get while the getting is good!"zachariah wrote:It is a regional usage. We're gonna get. Means RUN. Make Tracks. Scoot. Often used by grandma towards young kids by simply saying 'Git." Equally bad was 'Feets do you stuff!" or "Skedaddle".Dave wrote:"We're going to get"? An Iowa-ism for "get going" or "get in there"? It's a turn of phrase I don't think I've ever heard before (west-coast-transplanted Philadelphian that I am).Wapsi wrote:I'm letting some of Kath's Southern Iowa side show in her lingo. ^_^
I'm a veteran... S**t n Git was our favorite... or Pop Smoke... Both meant it was time to get the heck out of Dodge...Wdot wrote:Well, I'm from PA, and I've heard and used 'get' in that way so often that I didn't realize that it was a colloquialism. I didn't know that there was a "problem" until the comments section. Of course I'd be very hesitant to correct any language usage after the dislocated shoulder "reducing" fiasco. I also like scram and amscray. Of course to me, there is a difference between written English and spoken English. The comic is a representation of spoken English in written form, so all bets are off anyway; have you listened to the way people talk today!? Don't get me started on the texting abbreviations. TNX K BY d-:
ARRRGGHH!
Ahhh!! Now I get it!zachariah wrote:It is a regional usage. We're gonna get. Means RUN. Make Tracks. Scoot. Often used by grandma towards young kids by simply saying 'Git." Equally bad was 'Feets do you stuff!" or "Skedaddle".Dave wrote:"We're going to get"? An Iowa-ism for "get going" or "get in there"? It's a turn of phrase I don't think I've ever heard before (west-coast-transplanted Philadelphian that I am).Wapsi wrote:I'm letting some of Kath's Southern Iowa side show in her lingo. ^_^