Did you study your penultimates and antipenultimates?

Posted on 9 March 2009 by Fr. John Zuhlsdorf

Yesterday, today and tomorrow… well … sort of…

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13 Responses to Did you study your penultimates and antipenultimates?

  1. DAJL says:
    9 March 2009 at 7:09 pm

    Yes, but which day should take the accent???

  2. John Enright says:
    9 March 2009 at 7:23 pm

    Sorry, Father, but I still don’t get this. Am I dense?

  3. Christopher says:
    9 March 2009 at 8:12 pm

    Thanks to A series of unfortunate events, I lol’d hysterically

  4. Anonymous says:
    9 March 2009 at 8:31 pm

    It’s great to have some humor. In todays world, we are so much in need of it.

  5. supertradmom says:
    9 March 2009 at 8:51 pm

    Great humor. Are we not tired of all the superficially happy and motivational posters seen everywhere in the ’80s and ’90s? Love the chickens.

  6. Art says:
    9 March 2009 at 8:57 pm

    Here is a cure for those motivational posters:

    http://www.despair.com

  7. Tim O'Donnell says:
    9 March 2009 at 10:17 pm

    I have 2 questions about this post.

    My penultimate question is: regarding the second panel of the cartoon, isn’t today (as opposed ot yesterday) the last day of your life so far?

    My ultimate question is: which is the proper spelling, antipenultimate or antepenultimate?

    [These are both meant as rhetorical questions] :-)

  8. Megan says:
    9 March 2009 at 10:19 pm

    Tim, I believe it’s spelled “antepenultimate” :) This cartoon made me very happy.

  9. Christopher M. P. Tomaszewski says:
    10 March 2009 at 12:40 am

    I have studied my “penultimates” and “antepenultimates”, which is why I know that it is spelled with an “e” and not an “i”. If you mean “before” (as here) it’s “ante”; if you mean “opposite” it’s “anti”.

    ~cmpt

  10. Corleone says:
    10 March 2009 at 5:54 am

    I LOVE this. Cliches are like grande facades in front of straw huts.

  11. Postumus says:
    10 March 2009 at 7:48 am

    John: Yes.

  12. Creagh says:
    10 March 2009 at 8:33 am

    Thanks for the post Art, I am still laughing

  13. Benedicamus says:
    10 March 2009 at 9:43 am

    Funny cartoon, thanks for posting!