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[–] ChicoSuave@lemmy.world 38 points 4 days ago (1 children)

He's got friends in every town and village from here to the Sudan, he speaks a dozen languages, knows every local custom, he'll blend in, disappear, you'll never see him again.

[–] blockheadjt@sh.itjust.works 2 points 4 days ago

With any luck, he's got his other shoe already.

[–] SlicedPotato@feddit.dk 39 points 4 days ago (1 children)

And in Denmark he's Holger.

[–] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Dammit! Beat me to it by 30 minutes, you fiend! 😄

[–] LemmyKnowsBest@lemmy.world 13 points 4 days ago

If you'd just stick an r in there, you two could be friends.

[–] SlicedPotato@feddit.dk 4 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Ah, another Dane I suppose?

[–] theuniqueone@lemmy.dbzer0.com 17 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Why are we all looking for this guy? Forgot what he did to be the world's most wanted fugitive?

[–] Furbag@lemmy.world 19 points 4 days ago (2 children)

In my headcanon, I'm shipping Waldo and Carmen Sandiego. Nobody can find them, and they travel the world on a global crime spree.

[–] TeddE@lemmy.world 6 points 4 days ago

In my head, Waldo is a trans guy, living his best life, using his dead name Carmen Sandiego, drag, and gender norms as an effective tool as an effective shield against the authorities to seperate their work life from their personal life.

This is why Carmen is flashy, memorable, and bold while Waldo is quiet and casual.

[–] tempest@lemmy.ca 2 points 4 days ago

That newer Carmen San Diego cartoon is pretty fun.

[–] ripcord@lemmy.world 3 points 4 days ago

He has been framed by Odlaw and the Waldo Watchers.....

[–] AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space 12 points 4 days ago (2 children)

In Sweden, Donald Duck is named Kalle and Garfield is named Gustaf, so pretty much everyone gets renamed.

[–] FiskFisk33@startrek.website 5 points 4 days ago

Stålmannen går på en krypto-nit

[–] NichEherVielleicht@feddit.org 3 points 4 days ago (1 children)
[–] Lumidaub@feddit.org 9 points 4 days ago (1 children)
[–] lemmydividebyzero@reddthat.com 3 points 4 days ago (1 children)

In Germany, we say Hofnarr.

[–] Lumidaub@feddit.org 3 points 4 days ago

Sag bloß ;D

[–] rizzothesmall@sh.itjust.works 6 points 4 days ago

International criminal mastermind.

[–] DarkCloud@lemmy.world 7 points 4 days ago

They have no problem finding him, they have a problem holding him.

[–] Flamekebab@piefed.social 7 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Why does it have someone explaining the joke?

[–] Lumidaub@feddit.org 9 points 4 days ago (2 children)
[–] Deathray5@lemmynsfw.com 1 points 3 days ago

I'm a... (My lawyer has advised me to stop the joke)

[–] Doc_Crankenstein@slrpnk.net 1 points 4 days ago (1 children)

True but could have been something that added to the punchline rather than simply explaining it

[–] Lumidaub@feddit.org 1 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Could've laid out the entire thing differently from the beginning :) (j/k, the author thinks their audience is stupid, of course)

[–] Doc_Crankenstein@slrpnk.net 1 points 4 days ago

TBF, looking around at the general population, their audience is statistically likely to be someone stupid.

[–] Echo5@lemmy.world 6 points 4 days ago

Some good OPSEC (PERSEC?)

[–] SubArcticTundra@lemmy.ml 5 points 4 days ago
[–] NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone 2 points 4 days ago

Rare instance of yanks taking “y”s out of a name.

[–] ReginaPhalange@lemmy.world 2 points 4 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (4 children)

The schtick is that his name rhymes w/ whatever the pronunciation of "where" is in the current language

EDIT: yeah, I'm totally wrong. It does for my language, thought this is the general rule. Don't want to doxx myself.

[–] toynbee@lemmy.world 20 points 4 days ago
[–] Bazimon@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 3 days ago (1 children)
[–] morphballganon@lemmy.world 1 points 3 days ago

Wherelly Wally

[–] lugal@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 4 days ago

I don't know about French but for the other languages I can say it's not true

[–] Lumidaub@feddit.org 2 points 4 days ago

Where can I learn to spin yarns like that?