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.
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.
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SlicedPotato@feddit.dk · 40 pts · 294d
And in Denmark he's Holger.
Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 9 pts · 294d
Dammit! Beat me to it by 30 minutes, you fiend! 😄
LemmyKnowsBest@lemmy.world · 15 pts · 294d
If you'd just stick an r in there, you two could be friends.
SlicedPotato@feddit.dk · 4 pts · 294d
Ah, another Dane I suppose?
Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 5 pts · 294d
Indeed 😁
ChicoSuave@lemmy.world · 39 pts · 294d
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 pts · 293d
With any luck, he's got his other shoe already.
theuniqueone@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 18 pts · 294d
Why are we all looking for this guy? Forgot what he did to be the world's most wanted fugitive?
Furbag@lemmy.world · 21 pts · 294d
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 · 8 pts · 294d
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 pts · 293d
That newer Carmen San Diego cartoon is pretty fun.
ripcord@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 294d
He has been framed by Odlaw and the Waldo Watchers.....
AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space · 13 pts · 294d
In Sweden, Donald Duck is named Kalle and Garfield is named Gustaf, so pretty much everyone gets renamed.
FiskFisk33@startrek.website · 5 pts · 294d
Stålmannen går på en krypto-nit
NichEherVielleicht@feddit.org · 3 pts · 294d
What's my name?
Lumidaub@feddit.org · 9 pts · 293d
Hovnarr.
lemmydividebyzero@reddthat.com · 3 pts · 293d
In Germany, we say Hofnarr.
Lumidaub@feddit.org · 3 pts · 293d
Sag bloß ;D
PalmTreeIsBestTree@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 294d
Waltuh
DarkCloud@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 294d
They have no problem finding him, they have a problem holding him.
Flamekebab@piefed.social · 7 pts · 294d
Why does it have someone explaining the joke?
Lumidaub@feddit.org · 9 pts · 294d
Had white space to fill.
Deathray5@lemmynsfw.com · 1 pts · 293d
I'm a... (My lawyer has advised me to stop the joke)
Doc_Crankenstein@slrpnk.net · 1 pts · 294d
True but could have been something that added to the punchline rather than simply explaining it
Lumidaub@feddit.org · 1 pts · 294d
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 pts · 293d
TBF, looking around at the general population, their audience is statistically likely to be someone stupid.
Echo5@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 294d
Some good OPSEC (PERSEC?)
rizzothesmall@sh.itjust.works · 6 pts · 294d
International criminal mastermind.
SubArcticTundra@lemmy.ml · 5 pts · 294d
Found him!
NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone · 2 pts · 293d
Rare instance of yanks taking “y”s out of a name.
ReginaPhalange@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 294d
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 pts · 294d
Uhhh ...
lugal@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 3 pts · 293d
I don't know about French but for the other languages I can say it's not true
Bazimon@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 3 pts · 293d
Wheredo Waldo
morphballganon@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 293d
Wherelly Wally
Lumidaub@feddit.org · 2 pts · 293d
Where can I learn to spin yarns like that?