Chicago is a popular style of Poker played in Sweden where you count points instead of gambling.
Also I had trouble translating the verb for a female rubbing her genitalia on something, which literally translates to English as “snailing” or “to snail”. I decided to just have Anders call her vagina a snail instead. “Grinding” or “humping” doesn’t really cover just how gross “snailing” sounds like. 
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July 7th, 2008 at 10:37 am
Yay! first comment!
“get your slimy snail of my face!” Oh my goodness! that was freakin AWESOME!!
Thanks for the laugh. I REALLY needed that.
July 7th, 2008 at 10:39 am
You were right, “Snail” does sound better.
I still have a soft-spot for “Pillocking” though, if you’ll excuse the pun.
July 7th, 2008 at 10:41 am
“snatch” is also a popular word replacement for that.
July 7th, 2008 at 10:47 am
Calling it a slimy snail is actually really, perfectly hilarious.
July 7th, 2008 at 10:49 am
hehe Slimey snail
July 7th, 2008 at 10:54 am
I’d call that teabagging. Right?
July 7th, 2008 at 10:56 am
No, see, you can snail on pretty much anything. Also I’m pretty sure teabagging is a male only thing, and then only on someone’s face.
July 7th, 2008 at 11:21 am
Snail? I thought it was the old joke about:
Q. Why did God give women legs?
A. He’d already invented snails.
Ick!
July 7th, 2008 at 11:23 am
P.S. — It’s a Vulva, not vagina. Vulva is the outside, Vagina is the inside.
July 7th, 2008 at 11:45 am
This confuses me. I don’t know if I would like this done to me or not.
July 7th, 2008 at 1:20 pm
This entire discussion makes me cry a little deep down inside for the state of humanity.
Nonetheless, good strip as usual, Rene.
July 7th, 2008 at 1:50 pm
Mmh… escargots.
Kyou, if you didn’t abruptly jump up and flail your arms in abject terror at the thought of that, you would probably like it.
And Rene, you have piqued my linguistic curiosity: how *do* you say “to snail” in Swedish?
July 7th, 2008 at 2:41 pm
Wait! Do you have a verb for a woman rubbing her genitalia on something?!?!?!?!?!?!
It is slang, right? How is that?
That is thing will be on my head for the rest of the day… even the week…
July 7th, 2008 at 2:43 pm
@Nicolas
I thought you needed testicles to teabag?
could be a different culture thing.
I love how quickly his resolve folds.
July 7th, 2008 at 3:28 pm
@berga
We use the term “meat curtains” sometimes, lol.
Awesome comic, I will be using the term snailing now
July 7th, 2008 at 3:39 pm
Dude… I’m definitely going to use the term “snail” now. Most definitely. It will cause a breakup, but still.
July 7th, 2008 at 4:15 pm
Oh god, they do look like the underside of a snail! Sex is ruined forever! :’(
Love the comic to bits, keep it up!
July 7th, 2008 at 4:23 pm
I do believe you’ve just added a new slang sex term to English. I don’t think we had anything to already describe it. Snailing it is!
July 7th, 2008 at 4:31 pm
I’m surprised nobody’s commented on the fact that they’re playing music by the band Chicago in the background. It’s the little jokes like that that you pick up on the second read through that I love so much. That was great Rene.
July 7th, 2008 at 4:51 pm
I’ve heard of a snail trail before. I wonder where it originated. If you check urban dictionary there are a bunch of definitions. Soo it’s not just you Rene. I really need to stop reading your comic while i’m trying to drink something. Too Funny.
July 7th, 2008 at 4:58 pm
You have a verb for a female rubbing her genitalia on something.
Another reason you Swedes are teh awesome.
At least we still have the best pizza.
July 7th, 2008 at 5:05 pm
Holy god I can’t believe I’ve never heard the term “snailing” before. I’m tucking that one safely away.
July 7th, 2008 at 5:08 pm
Snail Trail?
July 7th, 2008 at 5:10 pm
Sorry for double post, what exactly is Penny doing to Anders?
July 7th, 2008 at 6:03 pm
I hope Anders doesn’t miss the doctors appointment!!!
July 7th, 2008 at 6:44 pm
@Atomic:
You have it backwards, man.
July 7th, 2008 at 7:02 pm
“Snail”. Classic. Also: “butterfly stamp”.
July 7th, 2008 at 7:20 pm
“At the end of your life you only regret the things you didn’t do, not the things you done.” - Well, I’m not sure…
July 7th, 2008 at 7:26 pm
>“Snail”. Classic. Also: “butterfly stamp”.
Butterfly stamp? Come on, you just made that one up. Or translated it from another language. It’s pretty awesome nonetheless.
Since we’re right in the middle of a really classy discussion, let me add the onomatopoeic expressions for “snailing” and “butterfly stamping”, which are obviously /slish slosh/ for the former and /shloooop/ for the latter.
July 7th, 2008 at 7:49 pm
Around the Bay Area, in California, “Chicago” is a split-the-pot poker game, seven-card stud where high hand splits the pot with the high Spade down. Dealt two down one up, bet, then three more up with a bet after each, then a final card down, bet then show.
July 7th, 2008 at 8:31 pm
Ritaxis, I have never heard of your chicago, and it sounds dreadfully complicated. As poker and beer go hand in hand in this neck of the woods, I shall never try it.
Also, I want all of my money when I win.
July 7th, 2008 at 8:43 pm
@fnord course I translated that from another language!
July 7th, 2008 at 9:05 pm
I think the closest equivalent to ’snail’ that I’ve heard in English for female genitalia is clam…
July 7th, 2008 at 9:13 pm
A word I used once-upon-a-time in English for the whole vaginal area was “conch”. Mind you these are all fine and nasty, but it’s verbs I’m more interested in hearing.
July 7th, 2008 at 10:19 pm
Snailing, hmmm. Like everyone else, I plan to steal that term the next opportunity it presents itself.
July 8th, 2008 at 12:05 am
Hey Renee,
Are you sending out notifications for those of us that donated for sketches?
July 8th, 2008 at 12:07 am
Brett: Yes! I will be contacting each of the donators individually via mail to make sure everyone gets a sketch they are satisfied with!
July 8th, 2008 at 2:55 am
The translation does a great job of getting the meaning across, but perhaps loses something of its unique Swedish flavor. I propose, “Get your leaky lutefisk off my face.”
July 8th, 2008 at 3:02 am
i hate to keep foreshadowing.. but this looks like trouble??
thanks for the good strip. made my other wise crap day less crappier! yr awesome rene!
July 8th, 2008 at 3:11 am
You’re welcome charchum!
July 8th, 2008 at 3:16 am
Char: I don’t think so.. Yeah, Thanks Rene, ever since I clicked the link from SMBC comics, I got hooked. :] [Oh, you added me with the characters on facebook, sweet :]]
July 8th, 2008 at 4:13 am
Wow, Swedish is totally fucking awesome if it has a word for rubbing your vag on something.
July 8th, 2008 at 6:14 am
I forget what I was actually looking for on Urban Dictionary, but a term I ran across was ‘camel stomp’. I guess a reference to the term ‘camel toe’ for jeans so tight they cut into the mound and leave the division of flesh visible. But yeah, it also sounded like it was specifically meant as a female equivalent of teabagging, so, an action done to the face.
July 8th, 2008 at 7:13 am
As far as I know, there is no english verb for rubbing one’s cootch on something. As such, I believe ’snailing’ is no co-opted into the english language!
July 8th, 2008 at 10:20 am
ive heard of a snail trail before, so it translates!
July 8th, 2008 at 12:54 pm
I dig the black girl giving Anders the bearded clam, but why is she in her underwear? Is this a strip card game, or do card games just naturally turn into orgies in Sweden? I can get my cards and be on a plane tomorrow.
July 8th, 2008 at 1:46 pm
Lol Snailing!
O man, I live in the wrong country! Only you crazy Swedes could make snail a verb!
July 8th, 2008 at 4:18 pm
“Snailing”? Rene, wtf? Snigla? Jag har aldrig hört den betydelsen av ’snigla’ innan… Inte för att jag någonsin har varit bra på sexrelaterade slanguttryck… Hur högt upp I landet är du, om man får fråga?
//translation for any curious people who don’t know Swedish and are too lazy to use google translate: “I’ve never heard that meaning of ’snailing’ before… Not that I’ve ever been good at sex-related slang expressions… How high up in the country are you, if I may ask?
July 8th, 2008 at 4:39 pm
Östersund.
July 8th, 2008 at 4:47 pm
Don’t you dare blame the dirty slang on me being a northerner either!
July 8th, 2008 at 6:36 pm
Well… Östersund is a naughty place, along with the whole north half of Sweden. You know it’s true!
July 8th, 2008 at 7:20 pm
Så här är det för mig i Norrland:
July 8th, 2008 at 7:54 pm
so i learned of this comic from Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal…this is easily the most gorgeous webcomic i’ve ever read. The changing art styles really keep it fresh and inventive. and the story has me caught like a fish on a hook, i can’t get enough!
I look forward to the next page. and the page after that! and the page after that!
July 8th, 2008 at 9:49 pm
Why does Google return 0 hits for ‘nysniglad’? I guess it’s a made-up word after all
July 8th, 2008 at 9:54 pm
fnord: It’s a compound word meaing newly-snailed. Look up sniglad.
July 9th, 2008 at 12:00 am
sorry to bring it back..but from another american’s point-of-view, i’d never heard of it before myself, but snailing is both metaphorically and literally the perfect term for a woman (specifically) rubbing her genitalia on someone’s face. ew ew ew ew. so dirty. SO DIRTY.
July 9th, 2008 at 12:10 am
yeah dude, snail trailing! my roommate and I used to joke that our friend was a serial snail trail-er, breaking into people’s houses in order to scoot around on their sheets and couches to get snail trails all over the place
July 9th, 2008 at 2:04 am
“It’s a compound word meaing newly-snailed.”
Are you implying that you snailed… your glasses?
Cus.. yea.. snail trails.. right.. thats kinda icky..
July 9th, 2008 at 4:27 am
Va? Bor du i Östersund?
Shit, jag går i skola där.
I övrigt;
ÄLSKAR Anders Loves Maria. Bästa serien någonsin. Så bra att jag nästan blir kär i dig. Kommer man kunna köpa den i bokform en dag?
Ahh.
July 9th, 2008 at 4:36 am
I just started reading your comic today (I found it through Kate Beaton’s site) and instantly became hooked. I’ve spent the last two hours going through the entire archives and I can’t get enough! We’re all so insulated into our personal/regional bubbles that we forget that there is an world out there, different from our own. Your little doses of Swedish culture (pop or otherwise) are a delectable bonus to an already phenomenal comic. Thanks, and I can’t wait for the rest of the story and your wonderful, and wonderfully varied, artwork!
July 9th, 2008 at 4:46 am
ps. Snailing is like a female version of tea-bagging, but I would also say that the slang use of grinding also applies. Though grinding can be done by both men and women and also can be a particularly violent and lewd form of juking, which is what we call the popular dance-style of a woman grinding her ass against a man’s crotch here in Chicago. (I’ve found that people from elsewhere in the US either don’t use that term, or use it differently) I’ve also never heard of tea-bagging being used in a positive/sexual manner, whereas snailing seems like it would apply in that sense. Either way, Anders seems to be in for a long, albeit crazily fun, night!
July 9th, 2008 at 5:09 am
Elin: Coolt!
July 9th, 2008 at 5:10 am
Elin: Och ja, NÅGON gång kommer jag att ge ut en bok.
July 9th, 2008 at 5:26 am
wow, this comic really makes me want to learn swedish. i love it!
July 9th, 2008 at 5:32 am
So I used the term “snail” yesterday. It got me slapped pretty hard, but no breakup in sight.
Awright.
July 9th, 2008 at 6:31 am
Wow… another reason why swedish rocks, and why I need to learn it. My favourite Swedish word to date was “slinka”, as it just sounds so appropriate, but snailing… amazing!
July 9th, 2008 at 11:31 am
Xopher.tm: “At least we still have the best pizza.”
Ha! You wish. I’m Swedish living in the States with an American wife, and ever since our first visit to Sweden my wife can’t get enough of Swedish pizza. She’s gotten pretty good at doing a home-made facsimile, and every one of our friend’s who’s tried it swears its better than anything available over here. So, yeah, Swedish pizza rules.
July 10th, 2008 at 5:36 am
Ew…
July 14th, 2008 at 12:45 am
I made a pizza the other night with creme fraiche in place of sauce, and gammon bacon and caramelized onions as a topping, no cheese. Apparently it’s a French style of pizza, and it’s delicious.
July 21st, 2008 at 10:24 pm
Haha, awesome.
Also, LOVE the music in the background. :3