Yuck. I’m assuming that someone out there knows all about whatever it is these two droning imbeciles are jabbering about, as I have no idea. And now that I know they’re into it, I have no desire whatsoever to look it up and find out for myself either.
I guess the “joke” is that “Nordic” people tend to have a gloomy pessimistic outlook on things, which is just an outrageously anti-Nordite statement to make IMO. In fact, I wouldn’t be surprised if that one guy in Sweden stops reading the strip over this slur. I like the idea of Les taking a dig at Funky for being such a dreary snore, though. Takes one to know one, beardo.
Son of Stuck Funky 
Batiuk’s used this “joke” before. There was one in Montoni’s with Darrin, I think, saying something, and one of the waitresses said he was “just being Nordic”. Thank goodness Batiuk dragged a conversation out through an entire Sunday strip just to reuse it, cause it’s just as hilarious as it was the first time.
Great, more Funky Winkerbean with its unhealthy fixation on the terminal aspect of life. Blows my mind how obsessed Tom is with aging and dying. I haven’t seen “Before Sunrise” but I hear it’s a good romance film from the 90s.
Also, as somebody with Nordic blood, it’s news to me that being this pessimistic is a characteristic I’m supposed to have. I thought it just gave me +10 cold resistance.
So, Tom Batiuk saw a movie and liked it. Most people would post a comment on Amazon or a user review on IMDB, but Mr. Batiuk thought, “Say, I can use that–the movie title, that is, and nothing more–in my comic strip.”
I guess that means he’s still putting some thought, however minor, into churning these things out.
Humor according to Tom Batiuk:
1.) Bring up a topic in awkward, stilted manner.
2.) Make half-hearted wordplay or pun based on topic.
3.) Smirk and/or sarcastic comment about 2.
I’m assuming the joke is that it means “cold blooded.” Another yuk fest.
@The Diva: 1)think of lame pun or half-hearted wordplay;
2)construct awkward set-up to launch lame pun or half-hearted wordplay;
3)Send to syndicate.
Wow, it that just depressing or what?
April 27, 2013
Rest homes and hospice, (fake) comic books, and a bizarre hatred of the Internet. That’s Funky Winkerbean in a nutshell.
Oh Frankie… how i miss you, only character to spice things up in the past two years.
That disembodied head of the Funk Man on the first panel nameplate… is that foreshadowing of a fate not unlike St. Fred the Fair Good?
Nah… that would take effort on Batom®’s part.
Or maybe he’s just some idiot who confuses having to deal with reality too depressing to bear. He was a lot more jovial during the manic phase of his doomed expansion plans.
Considering how much Flunky sweats during these seemingly thrice-daily jogs, you’d think he’d weigh in at a svelte 14 pounds by now.
Well, at least we can expand the Batiuktionary today to include the Northwestern Ohio term for “pessimistic.” That’s something, isn’t it?
TFH sez: Done!
https://sonofstuckfunky.com/batiuktionary/#nordic
I know I’ve said this before but it bears repeating. Pulitzer Committee, please stand down.
You’re all missing the forest for the logging company. Today’s real joke is “I want to see all the people in the movies grow old and die.”
It takes a very special mindset to watch a movie series showing the development of a happy relationship and say “You know what would make this better? If we kept following them into decrepitude and death.”
Funky is shocked from his usual daydream of just strangling Les right then and there. “Nordic blood? The pitiful Mediterranean Lesleigh has stumbled and revealed that he knows too much. Soon he will be dealt with. Soon, very soon they all will be dealt with! The Nordic race will rise up and claim all of Westview! Soon all will tremble at the mention of He Whose Name Is Unmentionable – Blinker-bohne! Blinker-bohne!! Ya VOL!!!”
This film trilogy stars Ethan Hawke and Julie Delpy. Ethan Hawke is 44. Julie Delpy is 45. Not even the most stereotypical “youth-obsessed Hollywood producer” would look at them and think of such phrases as “rest home” and “hospice.” And yet, the association comes so naturally to Batiuk…
All I could read in today’s strip is the word, “wwhhhhiiiinnnnneeee”!
Wasn’t the last movie about the characters’ failing marriage? Funky should have bird-dogged that aspect. “Before Settlements” or something. “Before Restraining Orders”