Frank and Ernest

[John From Detroit]

http://www.gocomics.com/frankandernest/2015/02/10

 

[Larry N.]

Neat - thanks, John.

 

[eric2015]

What is this? Why i always fail on connecting to those links :'( Anyone can give me some suggestion to fix this? :'(

 

[Tom Hoffman]

What is this? Why i always fail on connecting to those links :'( Anyone can give me some suggestion to fix this? :'(

Copy and paste the link in to a browser.

 

[eric2015]

Copy and paste the link in to a browser.

Still not working but thanks.

 

[grassy]

Here you go..

The darn program won't allow me to post pictures...  It is a comic..

http://yamigrl.smugmug.com/Other/Temp-2015/i-VVhJXdw/0/X2/Frank%20%26%20Ernest%20Comic-X2.jpg

 

[eric2015]

Thank you ! But where is the laugh point? Can't understand  :'(

 

[Tom]

This is a classic example of why humo(u)r does not readily transcend countries and cultures. One (my) explanation ...

A 'trailer' is a short preview of a movie that is shown to encourage people to watch the full movie.

A 'trailer' is one type of RV.

A 'trailer' can also be the name of a movie about a trailer.

The guy in the first frame is a private investigator taking video of a trailer. The guy in the last frame says he saw the trailer trailer trailer. So, he saw the trailer of the video named trailer showing a trailer.

 

[grassy]

Tom.

Great explanation...

BTW, why can I not post pictures ?

Thanx

 

[eric2015]

This is a classic example of why humo(u)r does not readily transcend countries and cultures. One (my) explanation ...

The guy in the first frame is a private investigator taking video of a trailer. The guy in the last frame says he saw the trailer trailer trailer. So, he saw the trailer of the video named trailer showing a trailer.

I got that point, but still don't feel funny. In this kind of humor we call it "cold-humor" ~ Then, we will "wa-hahahahahaha" though we dont feel that is funny  ???

 

[Tom]

Eric, I was born and raised in the UK, so my original sense of humour was quite different from the U.S. My saving grace was working for a U.S.-based company in the UK for 10 years before we came here. I used to have very interesting daily phone conversations with my U.S. colleagues  ;D

You have some culture shock and adjustments to come when you immigrate to the U.S. 

 

[Tom]

...why can I not post pictures ?

Depends on how you're trying to post them. Inline/embedded images are disabled here, thanks to prior abuse.

You can attach images to forum messages. Here's how.

 

[eric2015]

Eric, I was born and raised in the UK, so my original sense of humour was quite different from the U.S. My saving grace was working for a U.S.-based company in the UK for 10 years before we came here. I used to have very interesting daily phone conversations with my U.S. colleagues  ;D

You have some culture shock and adjustments to come when you immigrate to the U.S. 

I can tell a little bit from your words that you have a story in the UK cause your expression or typing way are normative like European.

 

[Tom]

Aye Eric, and the HK school system is very much the same.

 

[John From Detroit]

Tom missed a trailer

A Trailer (RV)
A Trailer (Person who, in this case, trails (Tracks down) Stolen trailers)
Trailer (Short clip advertising a movie)

That was why I posted it,,

By the way we need some Trailer, Trailers (First two) since we are seeing more stolen RV's than I recall from years past.. I do not know if this is due to an increase in theft, or an increase in internet use bringing the thefts to our attention.

 

[grassy]

Thanks Tom,

BTW, Canadian humour is also close but slightly different... we also add "u"s in a lot of words and call some things by different names. But all in all, we can get each other.

I thought the clip was quite funny.. 

Ian.

 

[Tom]

Aye Ian, we can. But Eric is a Hong Kong national waiting to come to the US, so the humour is a little tougher for him to get.

BTW my wife has folks in fits over Britlish words she used to have to explain/translate when we first came to the US. The one she doesn't tell is my pre-warning "honey, don't ask to borrow someone's rubber". She carried a "rubber" aka eraser in her purse for years, just in case  ;D

 

[RoyM]

Tom I just spit coffee on the keyboard. Now that is funny. ;D A workmate had visited Australia and a woman she met asked to borrow a lipstick. She replied just a minute while I root in my purse. Her companion was horrified, the word has an entirely different connotation in Oz.

 

[Tom]

Hope the keyboard is OK  ;D  Chris was dumbfounded when a colleague commented "you never wear pants to work". At that time, "pants" in the UK meant underpants  while in the US it meant "trousers".

 

[BobNSam]

I have always figured that British (to include Canadian, Australian, New Zealand, etc.) difference in what is funny is based on the spelling of certain words. To wit: British Humour; American Humor. You will note that it takes more letters in the British version of English to write out the thought. Therefore, British funnies take longer to understand and explain.