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1. 1 day ago on Francis

   Nod… that is the key, isn’t it, chuckle. I hope so.

2. 2 days ago on Francis

   Maybe you were a part of it when when we were all speculating on that possibility when the strip shifted in tone a while back. I wouldn’t mind that at all. I love Leo and Gabby.

3. 3 days ago on Francis

   I have been having a feeling our sweet comic may be wrapping up… It seems many of the strips lately have been reflective, than “real time” adventures… and to the panel that a comic strip is not be the place for some mysteries, I agree. To take it further, I don’t really want the coming, inevitable transition to literally play out the comic… I could even be satisfied with this one being a “last strip,” where Francis gets to live forever doing hopeful, world focussed work.

4. 6 days ago on Breaking Cat News

   Re no comics this morning anywhere: just mentioning, my GC morning email has todays for all the ones I follow, so I could at least read them there, but yeah, when I try to click through to the site on any of them, yep nothing.

5. 20 days ago on Spot the Frog

   They make them, I think in the shape of ghosts

6. 21 days ago on Spot the Frog

   I’m feeling called out here. I love candy corn and stale peeps. PDD offers a high five to Maizing!

7. 22 days ago on Dog Eat Doug

   Sad chuckle, no. This potential genius was lost to, as you discerned, less than encouraging parenting, and other damaging distractions.

   My permanent school record was jam packed with comment the comment: “[PDD] is extremely bright and engaged and intimidates the rest of the class, but doesn’t work up to their potential.”

   Finally found out in grad school, after an astute professor suggested I get tested, that along with the intellectual abilities came a rather significant reading/writing difficulty. My “genius” intellect had me compensating verbally all my life (oh god did I talk people’s ears off! Still do, lol).

   So I while I was extremely bright, I was only able to perform at a “normal” level, so no one picked up on the trouble I was having. I wouldn’t even had qualified for special help, if they had done that sort of testing back then.

   But it made school so tough. I was angry and frustrated all the time and everyone just kept scolding me. I couldn’t understand why everything was so hard when my “normal” friends were breezing along. (I’m not going to talk about how my step-mother through all this had a Ph.d. in Special Ed. She was one of the worst for reprimanding me, literally a learning disability right under her nose.)

   This partly explained why I ended up punting high school and barely pulled off graduating. Even dropped out of college in frustration and rebellion twice before I got my mind right some years later.

   Anyway, it’s all good now, and everything worked out okay in the end. I have a great life. I have work I enjoy and is intellectually challenging.

   Oh, and to your Sheldon comment, that is what I was getting at in my first post. I think we are all born Sheldons, able to understand anything, look at how early we understand and use complicated language skills and concepts. I think some combination of accident and nurturing leaves some folks able to hold on to more of that brain power through early childhood.

8. 23 days ago on Dog Eat Doug

   Lol

9. 23 days ago on Dog Eat Doug

   I believe all infants are born with expansive mental concepts and huge capabilities that they proceed to lose as they become accustomed/inured to living in the world.

   I remember “knowing” things as a toddler, that I’ve now forgotten. I even distinctly recall standing in our kitchen when I was around 2 and half (date firm because the kitchen was reconfigured when I was 3) experiencing an existential epiphany of grave consequence. I made of point of thinking “THIS is important! It solves everything! The grown-ups clearly have forgotten this!” I concentrated on remembering it, and told myself, “I won’t forget, and when I’m a grown-up I can remind everyone.” Of course I remember making the vow, but not what I was meant to remember, eyeroll. My apologies to a still unhappy planet. Chuckle.

   A few months later, still in preschool, before I could read, my mom was holding her hand on the tap waiting for the water to get cold. I launched into a fugue-like lecture about thermal expansion and contraction in response to molecular excitement, and differential property densities. Observing that she was “wasting water because, if she held her hand under the tap in the stream, she could tell sooner when the water was cold, because water was less dense than the metal tap, so it took longer and more water to pass through for the cold water to transfer enough thermal energy to make the metal contract enough to feel cold.” She got a weird look on her face and demanded “how do you know that?” I self-consciously shrugged, not understanding why I wouldn’t know it, and more confused why she didn’t. Later, I overheard her telling my dad how scary it was to hear me talking that way. After this, I carefully avoided discussing any thoughts about quantum theory with her.

10. 23 days ago on Skippy

    Apparently it is scheduled for this fall, if a certain tantrum thrower doesn’t get his way again, this according to the chatter on his Pravda, oops, I mean “truth” channel. Vote as a true patriot who loves our constitution more than a wannabe dictator.