comic 1860s pronunciation?

[Jonathan Lighter]

>>Krazy Kat, who is oblivious to the brick about to be
tossed at his head.

All aficionados know that Krazy Kat is a girl, caught up in one of
literature's most troubled romances.

So just who are you and what have you done with Mark?


JL

On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 11:26 AM, Mark Mandel <thnidu at gmail.com> wrote:

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> Wonderful indeed. Our living room is enlivened by the wire-limbed likeness
> of Ignatz sitting above Krazy Kat, who is oblivious to the brick about to
> be
> tossed at his head.
>
> But "Offisa Pup" is just a spelling pronunciation, without the metathesis
> of
> "oSSiFer" and "aMiNal".
>
> m a m
>
> On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 10:44 PM, Arnold Zwicky <zwicky at stanford.edu>
> wrote:
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> > On Jan 18, 2010, at 7:24 PM, Victor Steinbok wrote:
> >
> > > ... I was under impression that "ossifer"
> > > and similar expressions were quite common in jokes in the 1970s and
> > > 80s.
> >
> > and back to the to early 1900s, with George Herriman's wonderful Krazy
> > Kat comics, in which Offisa Pup played a central role.
> >
> >
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