Can anyone help me understand this comic?
The guy in question is a total cad. The woman he's talking to is irrelevant to understanding this particular strip. Edda is a girl the guy is interested in, but she's not at all interested in him because he's a total cad, and she might be too young for him anyway, and might also be in love with someone else.
The problem is I have no idea what "Gravy ain't wavy" means or refers to. Can anyone help?
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I understand it was a non-sequitor catchphrase from this comic strip series (check out the sign at the bottom of the first panel of that link...)
GAH! That doesn't make any sense, and is so atypical for 9 Chickweed Lane! Get Fuzzy or Foxtrot I could see doing that, but it's just totally out of character here!
**flummoxed**
I loved Smokey Stover as a kid - long before you ever batted your baby blues, love. The beauty of old Smokey was that he didn't make sense - he was a brief respite from reality. He was a silly abstraction a shy eight-year-old could understand and laugh at. If you would care to see how he warped my mind for life, check out http://mensch.typepad.com.
Ageism!!!!!!
I was confused, too. This makes some sense of it. Sorry, but I don't know html to do the links. I went here: http://buethe.netfirms.com/cartoonacy/qanda/q_smokey.htm
This is the most pertinent comment: I don't know where "Scram Gravy Ain't Wavy" came from, but if I had to speculate, I'd guess that it refers to the "gravy" a horse leaves behind when it "scrams," a scatological reference.
Edda probably got the phrase from her grandmother (if you want to make sense of her using it). Actually, it is just kind of cool as a xray filter without the background.
It's from the old Smokey Stover comic strip.
Smokey Stover had a sign on the wall of his dining room that said "Scram Gravy Ain't Wavy". I've seen it many times.
It looks like the sign says "Scram gravy aint wavey." That's "wavey" with an E, not "wavy."
When I was @8yrs old my neighbor came up with this expression. This was in the 1940’s., definitely in the .Smokey Stover era.
I thought he was just making it up.
Thanks all for the explanation.
Notary solar was another nonsense sign. Remember when MAD Magazine mentioned axolotls a lot?
SOJAX that is
The pen is mightier than the foo!
My father used to say-scram gravy ain’t wavy, and I thought it was something he made up, until I googled it today. I’m 62 and I remember hearing him saying it when I was a kid.
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