Comments on: Tall

By: Todd

Todd — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 21:00:47 +0000

I had a coworker who said he was five foot twenty. He said he didn’t care if people called him giraffe (he was skinny too).

By: furrykef

furrykef — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 11:54:14 +0000

But, then the quotes around “tall” indicates he IS trying to make a play on words.

I don’t think the quotation marks indicate a play on words so much as emphasizing that it’s a metaphorical usage.

By: Freezer

Freezer — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 10:12:00 +0000

I just wonder if Scott and Bergman notice what an unlikable asshole Jeremy is, nearly all the time. He’s not the only thoughtless, rude, selfish, etc. teen in comics, but every other one I can think of (Luann, Holly from Stone Soup, Peter and Paige Fox, etc.) have moments of self-awareness and charity to balance things out.

By: paperboy

paperboy — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 02:46:12 +0000

I took it to mean he was pointing out that being 6-foot+ and young is not an accomplishment, but a condition, and to wipe that smirk off your face! But, then the quotes around “tall” indicates he IS trying to make a play on words.

By: Mark M

Mark M — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 00:41:48 +0000

I had a similar reaction as bat L. - never heard the term “tall” used that way. And the closest dictionary.com comes is “in a proud, confident, or erect manner”. That doesn’t jive either.

By: paperboy

paperboy — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 18:08:33 +0000

Seems to me the last bunch of Zits were of Jeremy smugly getting the “last laugh” simply because he’s young, and his mom and dad are (ha ha!) old. Maybe Jerry wanted to take him down a bit for a little balance.

By: Dan

Dan — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 17:25:14 +0000

Thanks, Bill.

Another oddity - although Jeremy is generally portrayed as the psoter child for all things teenage (all the stereotypical qualities, basically), his query here is extremely polite. Not unnecessarily polite, of course, but it feels a little out of character.

By: padraig

padraig — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 15:02:06 +0000

Military guys who are vertically challenged tend to get “short-guy” syndrome where they feel they need to get on top of taller guys right away. Gen. David Petraeus (5′8″ ish I think?) is an excellent runner, and he reportedly likes to invite new staffers out for a 5-mile run. If that doesn’t run them into the ground, the next day he takes them on a 10-mile run, and so on, until he finds the distance where he can crush them.

By: Pirk

Pirk — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 06:34:41 +0000

he didn’t even offer him tea . . .

By: Cidu Bill

Cidu Bill — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 04:47:18 +0000

Dan, Sara’s parents are divorced.