Seeing as I'm am too young to get most refrences and stuff I wanted you guys to "enlighten" me a bit about this. Forgive any typos as English is only my second language and two years in the states doesn't help much. First I'll start with the Rick Roll sh*t. I mean what made him so great? and why that song? Second the Red Rover thing. Cartoon or something? I'll probably find more refrences along the line but you get the idea.

The Dick Roll'd thing is the parody from the song Never Gonna Give You Up, as that song has been strewn across the internet for a hilarious random event, it was probably the comics time to do one itself.

And for Red Rover, this link will properly inform you.

How can a kid not know what Red Rover is? What are they doing in schools these days?

Oh, right.

Handheld gaming systems.

dude my school career SUCKED!!!!!!!!! i couldn't have hand-held game systems, so i learned red rover really young like kindergarten young

im a rather bulky 16 y/o red rover player, i nearly killed someone once, that game is almost as bad as crack the whip on ice skates

Aaah, the days of red-rover >:-3 I may have been a small kid, but man could I break through your fracking line! It's all about momentum, children.

unless the person youre running into is against a wall, then you almost break their ribs, that poor kid had a huge deep black then yellow bruise for two weeks

-.O ouch, poor kid. I played Red Rover quite a while ago. I can hardly remember how old I was...

How could you possibly play Red Rover against a wall? That defeats the whole purpose.

Pretty creative way to have injury inflicted upon yourself though....Rip gives Wall Rover two thumbs up!

...Wait, those aren't thumbs...

Hey, I remember Red Rover! It was one of the few games we were actually allowed to play. We weren't permitted to run on the asphalt, play tag, etc. I remember the only time I ever got in trouble in grade school was for "playing in the snow". Actually, I was just sitting on the snow. The other kids were playing in it. We almost caused the entire school to lose their recess.

cuz you were playing in snow? isnt that whats snows for? thats one of the stupidest things i heard all week

What the hell kind of school did you go to, 'Naya? o_O Even my catholic school wasn't so nazi-ish >.>

Maybe a secret government school to create mindless zombie-children?

I'm not entirely sure what Red Rover is either, but that's because I grew up in Mexico, where we played more innocent games... like a sadistic version of wallball where if you touch the ball without catching it everyone kicks you in the ass untill you touch the wall, and if someone throws the ball before you touch the wall (unintentional rhyming...), you're sentenced to having everyone hit you with the ball at point-blank range... good times.

I you are too young to get the references, then you are too young to have a mouth like that.

Okay first, me and the other "hooligans" got white slips (that's step one to a detention). Then we had to see the principal (Being 7 years old, I was bawling my head off because I'd never been in trouble before). Then, we had to march classroom to classroom telling our fellow students what we had done and apologizing to them for almost making them lose their recess. This was just a regular public elementary school in Ohio.

Okay,

What.

The.

Fuck? o_O Just for playing in the fracking snow? >.> Ohio blows.

I wasn't even playing in the snow. I was sitting on the snow. And because I got a white slip, I missed out on Movie Day and had to sit in one of the classrooms with the other naughty children.

And they do it for free...




...Sorry. Don't know what's gotten into us lately.

Further proof of the public school system trying to enforce conformity among the children. If you don't behave exactly as everyone else you shall be punished. I knew there was a reason I didn't like elementary school, despite the fact I love to learn.

...Mine? In my Elementary School as well we were punished for touching snow. We were just expected to play Basketball and/or Swing until the Teacher would blow the whistle (A whistle! They were treating us like Cattle! Wait... Wrong Allegory... But they used whistles! One doesn't exactly see High School students being forced to walk in step in straght, conformitive lones! You also use whistles to call Dogs! That's it, they treated us like Dogs!)



It would seem that he immigrated to the US, and therefore would not understand all of the proper Pop Culture concepts that we crazy 'Mercans have.



With Whistles. And Straight, orderly lines. And Group Punishment. At our school, if one child did something bad the entire class would have to suffeer for their sins. This, in the teacher's minds, was supposed to cause peers to pressure wrong-doers not to do anything bad anymore... Unless the wrong-doer doesn't give a Snickersnack about the other students and does bad things anyway, thereby causing the students to resent the teacher *CoughIdidCough* This actually caused me to get into a dbate with my teacher on why this system should be abolished... In Second Grade. That's how bad it was.

Okay... they probably used whistles in place of a bell, dillweed :-p At any rate, I don't understand the whole "Don't play in the snow" thing. >.>

They didn't want us to hurt ourselves, like by throwing it or something. It's the same reason we weren't allowed to run, except in the grass.

Therefore, we always disguised our running as Speed-Walking.

Because gods forbid a child should ever fall down in their life.

Uhm...
Sorry... But, what teh fark?
American schools are strange. o_O

Yes, they are.
At least us Canadians can wrestle polar bears during our lunch break

No wonder you never hear anything of the Canadian army... They're children are allowed to get eaten by polar bears before they can ever reach the point to join the military!

Hey, it's population control

On the flip side of that, we don't need very many soldiers, if all of them can wrestle polar bears when they're children

In Mexico they pretty much don't care what studets do during recess as long as nobody's fighting or doing something seriously dangerous like climbing on a basketball pole. They reserve the strict rules for when you're actually in the classrom, and supposed to be paying attention.

"Who is this attention guy, and why should I be paying him?"
Someone actually said that in class, it was a riot ^.^
Even funnier since it was in an English Lit class

Well, i want to use this topic to ask a question =O
I'm trying to make a translation to spanish of the comic, just for fun and to show it to friends who don't know english. My english is not perfect, but is enough to understand the comic, and to make a good translation of first two pages, however there are things that I can't catch. first, Cale calling Richard "Dick"... is there a reason? does that mean something? and second, the name of Richard's pet, hctib elttil... characters say "that's a weird name" and things like that, but what does it mean? or is a mistery?
For your time, thank you
Pd: if anyone wants to read my translation work, just ask

"Dick" is common slang for Richard... But it is also slang for Male Reproductive Organs.

You are supposed to read Hctib's name backwards. It reads as "Little B****.

Heh, it would be fun translating it into german.^^

jojojo, thanks for your fast answer! you people are great, now I can continue with translation

"Dick" is "pene" in spanish (i think the spelling is alright) and hctib elttil is little bitch which can be translated to "pequeña perra" or "pequeña puta", just spell it backwards.

Growing up in Colombia, during recess we weren't suppervised, we were allowed to do what we wanted to do aslong as we got back into the classroom by the time class started. If we were late we had to tell them the reasons of why we were late, and if it was that we got lost in the Amazon while taking a nice lunch hike, the teachers would then tell us not to walk too deeply into it so we wouldn't get lost as easily and would get back in time.

Then I moved to Canada were I wasn't allowed to leave the playground or else I would have a stern talking to by a teacher, detention, a note to my parents, and a parent teacher conference set up for the following week about how it was not a good idea for a 10 yr old to wander off the school and make friends with people I didn't understand. Sigh, well at least I was allowed to play with snow! =D

Well, we've got kinda no rule which would be really stupid.
The only thing that sucks is the incredible stupidy that our teachers are cursed with.
The ten of my classmates got no grading in their exams simply because the teacher lost the exam's.
And one of them wrote like nine pages.

Yeah, the spelling is right. however for translation requirements I will use "Dick" as "Richard diminutive" and with a * mark below the other meaning for "dick" in English. Same for "hctib elttil" (I don't think changing the name of the little red character to "arrep añeuqep" would be a good idea XD)
Thanks

Man, y'all's elementary schools sound alot like bootcamp. Straight, orderly lines, whistles, conformity, not touching the snow.

'Cept for the 'no running' bit, it's pretty much spot on.

Okay guys, this went off topic very fast. As the rules go....gotta stay on topic. Since it didn't, it is now closed.