[LMB] OT: AKICOTL - definitions wanted

[Paula Lieberman]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Elvi Dalgaard" <elvi at vl.videotron.ca>


> PAT MATHEWS wrote:
>> I have a big popcorn can labeled "Kat Fud." It's a joke. I would hate for
>> someone to come it, see it, take it literally, and conclude "She's really
>> losing it, isn't she?" Because it's a comic-strip-inspired joke that is 
>> only
>> funny when one knows the person making it is literate.
>>
>> If you saw the same message in a cheap apartment in a bad neighborhood,
>> you'd promptly assume (sniff) "These people are SO illiterate...."
>>
>> Or maybe the read the same comic strips I do.
>>
> Far Side?

But surly too lazy for literacy disdainful cats are a tradition--consider 
the comic strip Garfield, for example.  (I had a coworker who used to say, 
"I'll have the Garfield Special" in the company cafeteria, meaning he was 
ordering the lasagna).