Disappointing
This week and probably next week, I’m gonna tell you guys some of the stuff that happened in Toronto for TCAF! So here’s the first anecdote!
This one needs a little bit of explaining: you see, in Quebec, most of our French swear words are derivatives of church vocabulary (chalice, ostie, etc.). One we use frequently is tabarnak, which is a deformed way of saying “tabernacle”. Hence why we’d have such a reaction in front of a restaurant named Fabarnak. (People looked at us funny.)
Also! I recently did a guest strip for the very fabulous (and slightly NSFW) Girls With Slingshots! She received a whopping 108 guest strips so she’s putting all of them together on Flickr. Here’s mine!
Hahaha! Nice. x3 Reminds me how people used to always giggle when they pass “Dick’s Medical Needs.” xD It closed for some reason last year…
your story reminds me of our schooltrip to ireland last year, we came by “The Cock Tavern”…our teachers had a hard time trying to calm ~30 teenagers xD
There’s actually this famous Chinese restaurant in the city I live in (Portland, OR) named “Hung Far Low”. It has this large sign that hangs right on the building it’s attached to. It’s been the subject of debate for years because some are calling it offensive. I find it fun to look at when I pass by on my adventures downtown.
God I hope they knew what they were getting themselves into
That’s… a funny name for a drugstore.
Right by my place there’s a funeral home called “T. Sansregret”, which is the guy’s name. However… “Sansregret” means “no regrets”, and the T can be interpreted as “t’es”, which is “you are”. I guess it’s the French equivalent to a funeral home called “U. R. Withoutregrets” or something.
I really liked your guest strip, the way Hazel lights up in the second panel is too cute for words!
Thank you! I had a lot of fun doing it!
i didnt know French could end a word with a K… most interesting… *dons lab coat and takes notes*
When I was a child, my mother told me that as she drove to work each night, she passed a business called the Fuk Yu Bargain Center. It was clearly named for the proprietor, but that didn’t make it any less funny.
We have three places in our city like that… Fork’n’Chopstix, Fricken Waffle (Fried Chicken Waffles), and a funeral home named after the same guy who founded a community pool for children… :I