Wednesday, April 18, 2007

See if I take my tourism money to Florida again

Ah, today's strip is more people in Florida complaining about us folks from Up North. There clearly is a disconnect here. Migraina and Ragmop are really dressed up in the top panel; that has to be a really fancy place. And in the bottom panel, I can only assume that the restaurant doesn't have a dress code; otherwise, the host could just tell them to dress up a bit. Therefore, the place probably isn't that fancy. (And if the top place isn't that fancy, then Migraina and Ragmop are just overdressed, which also is mockable. But that's not the point here.) And by the way, snooty (snotty?) restaurant guy? They can still spend money, even if they are in casual wear.

(I want to add the disclaimer here that I never want to see Migraina in a two-piece ever again.)

And really, Hal Steinberg, how do you know (a) that these people are from "up north" and (b) that they always dressed up for every meal out? Do they say, "Man, when we lived back Up North, we always wore tuxes and evening gowns when we dined out! I love that we can now dress like we just came from the pool when we go out"? If not, shut it.

I kind of want tomorrow's strip to make snide comments about Southerners.

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5 Comments:

At 3:37 PM, Blogger Marc P. said...

I love how all of the Florida submissions are from former Jewish snowbirds :). I know that term since there are many in my family :)

 
At 6:00 AM, Blogger meep said...

Yeah, but most Floridians aren't Southerners, strictly speaking. And the types of people who would complain about beachwear at a restaurant near the beach are likely other Yankees.

 
At 6:16 AM, Blogger Mathew Walls said...

"Snotty" and "snooty" both mean the same thing, the only difference being that "snotty" also means "like or covered in snot".

 
At 11:44 AM, Anonymous Anonymous said...

I took it the opposite -- "Look what slobs they've become! Can't we have some standards?"

 
At 12:20 PM, Blogger Izzy said...

You totally missed the fact that Migraina is obviouosly a zombie. Look how she never opens her eyes - not up north - not down south. Ragmop just leads her around from eatery to eatery looking for brainzzzzzz...

 

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