Friday, 11 October 2024

Oct 09, 2024 00:33


The one where April thinks it's the shoes that make Becky more talented. 

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howtheduck October 9 2024, 05:35:35 UTC


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dreadedcandiru2 October 9 2024, 06:25:01 UTC

What I see is an example of a Patterson child being dangerously suggestible and literal-minded because she lives in a madhouse where she's always 'wrong'. This culminates in a sixteen year old girl being consumed with guilt and fear because she knows that they'll find out that she prayed a tree onto a house.

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dreadedcandiru2 October 9 2024, 09:51:07 UTC

Also, we have to remember that for some ungodly reason, the insane idiot thinks that it's hilarious for children under six to be naked. Would that Unstabler use a two-by-four to disabuse her of the notion that you must be this tall to be allowed dignity.

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jjamele October 9 2024, 10:00:14 UTC

Seriously, they need to be wearing different shoes. Even slightly different. I can see kids thinking shoes helps them go fast or jump high, but not if the shoes are exactly the same. This is Fail on a whole new level.

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dreadedcandiru2 October 11 2024, 07:03:31 UTC

No notes today.

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howtheduck October 11 2024, 14:47:37 UTC

If there were notes, Lynn Johnston would explain that this is a takeoff on the old PF Flyers kids' collection shoes slogan, "Run Faster, Jump Higher". That slogan, according to the internet, was created in 1944, so it's old enough for Lynn Johnston to have heard of it.

Nike launched the advertisements for Air Jordan shoes tagged with the slogan “It's Gotta be the Shoes,” in the early 1990s, so it would be right around the time for a take-off in this 1995 comic strip.

If there were notes, Lynn Johnston could explain her sources.

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dreadedcandiru2 October 11 2024, 15:48:35 UTC
While also taking a swing at advertisers and those advertised to.

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howtheduck October 12 2024, 01:04:57 UTC

Given all that, it is kind of surprising she didn't give us notes. Those are some of her favorite subjects.

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