Subtitles for the Jennie-Impaired

[Eskimo_Nell]

I normally ask my daughter (who is about your age and lives on Manhattan Island) to translate some of the stuff in your strips. However, she's taken her current victim, I mean boyfriend to remote Québec for a no-mobile-phones, no-computers escape to nature.

So, for the transatlantically-impaired reader, unexposed to US advertising - what are pop rocks? and what's Zanex? It sounds like something you might put on Cold Sores.

I was going to just e-mail this to you, but then I thought other people might want to ask for subtitles too.

Apologies in advance if this topic has been addressed before, but I'm not about to read this entire forum. It's huge!

See you whenever you want to fly over here again,

r (the guy with the Amex points waiting)

[Sehson]

Pop-rocks are a candy that is imbued with CO2 as it is made so as it melts in the mouth it crackles and pops.

Zanax(Xanax) is a prescription tranquilizer. It's relatively mild, and is often prescribed to for things as panic/anxiety attacks or difficulty sleeping.

[Crazeyal]

POUNCES the NEWBIE!!!

yeah..

what he said..

[JennieB]

huh
I didn't know what Zanex was. It's just what Nigel told me she had said. I assumed it was some kind of stiffy drug like the little blue pill.

Pop rocks were big in the...er... 80s? 90s?
They're really weird. They expload in your mouth so that there's tiny pinches on your tongue. Like eating a sparkler. They look like nerds; small hard pebbles of sugar. The kind of thing that only little kids usualy like. I think they were banned in canada or the UK or something. There's a bunch of urban myths about them. Like if you put them in soda there will be a big explosion.

[Captain Kitty]

yeah, they were banned in the UK cause kids were swallowing them with fizzy drinks and its damaging in some way or something.... i dunno, i barely paid attention!

[meghasissues]

there's an urban legend that if you eat poprocks and drink coke at the same time your stomach will explode

[UberFische]

there's an urban legend that if you eat poprocks and drink coke at the same time your stomach will explode

I think they disproved that on Mythbusters...

[Plunder Down-Under]

I think they disproved that one with common sense

[greyloch]

Yeah, but "common sense" is neither.

Eskimo_Nell, if you look on-line, I'm sure you can find someone who will ship you a package of pop rocks (i.e., eBay). They're worth trying at least once.

Xanax confused with Viagra? Didn't think Nigel needed help w/ the gettting it up part, does he? The Xanax would make him a bit more mellow and not freak out over banging a 15 year-old in Canada. As much. It's not exacty a date rape drug unless consumed with lots of alcohol... oh, it would act that way on him, wouldn't it? :lol:

Think we need to assist Jennie in her drug education, no?

[Sehson]

Eh if we had any medical types on here thye could always send Jennie an old copy of their PDR (physician's desk Reference)

[Seolta]

Eh if we had any medical types on here thye could always send Jennie an old copy of their PDR (physician's desk Reference)

I'd offer, but I think we already threw out/sold off our old copies when the new ones came out.

[garfalk]

what i find funny is that another comic i read, referenced xanex today.


http://www.smbc-comics.com/comics/20070816.gif (http://www.smbc-comics.com/index.php?db=comics&id=914)

[Big Otis Landfish]

Eh if we had any medical types on here thye could always send Jennie an old copy of their PDR (physician's desk Reference)

I've got a March's around somewhere, but that's probably more useful if you wanna make the drugs. All 2350 pages of it.

And I've got a really old (4th Ed.) Merck index as well, but it's older than Xanax. Hell, it's older than penicillin.

[Jay]

I normally ask my daughter (who is about your age and lives on Manhattan Island) to translate some of the stuff in your strips. However, she's taken her current victim, I mean boyfriend to remote Québec for a no-mobile-phones, no-computers escape to nature.

So, for the transatlantically-impaired reader, unexposed to US advertising - what are pop rocks? and what's Zanex? It sounds like something you might put on Cold Sores.

I was going to just e-mail this to you, but then I thought other people might want to ask for subtitles too.

Apologies in advance if this topic has been addressed before, but I'm not about to read this entire forum. It's huge!

See you whenever you want to fly over here again,

r (the guy with the Amex points waiting)

In the UK Pop Rocks = Space Dust