posted Friday, February 22, 2008 - 04:40 AM (#40996)
I love the strips where you make fun of weird English words :D. This one made me giggle uncontrollably.
posted Friday, February 22, 2008 - 07:40 AM (#41000)
It's from the movie "10 Things I hate About You" which is a modern send-up of taming of the shrew. It was Heath Ledgers first movie actually, great flick. I highly recommend it. But it is, verbatim, from the movie.
posted Friday, February 22, 2008 - 09:34 AM (#41001)
Gah? Really? The same joke?
...it's good to know that it now looks like I'm ripping off hack teen comedies. :)
posted Friday, February 22, 2008 - 09:37 AM (#41002)
Apparently, "whelm" is a pretty old word...
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/whelm
posted Friday, February 22, 2008 - 09:46 AM (#41003)
Yeah, the word "whelm" is more than a few hundred years old — if I remember correctly — but has been long-dead in common use.
And yep...you guys were right, that same joke setup did appear in that flick. I just did a Google search, and it came up on IMDB (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0147800/quotes):
Chastity: I know you can be overwhelmed, and you can be underwhelmed, but can you ever just be whelmed?
Bianca: I think you can in Europe.
At least I can feel better knowing that the punchlines were totally different. :)
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