Phoebe and Her Unicorn by Dana Simpson for January 16, 2013

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    Masterius  almost 12 years ago

    Ah, if only RL came with optimized ignore lists.

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    Templo S.U.D.  almost 12 years ago

    If Phoebe’s a nerd at school according to Dakota, then what does Dakota consider herself to be therein? Nerd & genius are completely different.

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    SackofRabidWeasels  almost 12 years ago

    Not enough rage.

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    kaykeyser  almost 12 years ago

    In other words almost a year ago nothings changed…well except things did get better once Phoebe and Marigold got together…but y’all get my point.

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    sjsczurek  almost 12 years ago

    “Nerd” is not a word.

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    sjsczurek  almost 12 years ago

    And an epithet is an epithet.

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    Comic Minister Premium Member almost 12 years ago

    Yes it was.

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    Coyoty Premium Member almost 12 years ago

    All the dictionaries seem to think “nerd” is a word.

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    Desertsinger1972  almost 12 years ago

    I was called a nerd in school, among other things. I think being called a nerd was probably one of the nicist things I was called though. Oh well.

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    John W Kennedy Premium Member almost 12 years ago

    Although Dr. Seuss uses a word “nerd”, he uses it to refer to an imaginary animal. There is no evidence that it is the source of the modern word, and there is a problem with the idea: he published “If I Ran the Zoo” in 1950, and “nerd” meaning “drip”, “square”, etc., was in use by 1951, which is awfully fast for a word in a children’s book to become a slang term with a completely different meaning.

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    John W Kennedy Premium Member almost 12 years ago

    They both are words. What of that? Are you trying to suggest that comic-strip antagonists ought never to be rude? That there is a long history of bright children being lynched by their peers—and that it should be covered up? Just what are you saying, and whom are you saying it to, anyway?

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    dracdrac9  almost 12 years ago

    How very pleasing to find your work again, good Dana… I see much of the same impish sense of humor and amused cynicism as in your previous works. :}

    Drac

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    Masterius  almost 12 years ago

    Sadly, my life was also insufficiently lonely when I was in school. More sadly, the ‘teasing’ I endured was daily delivered in the form of brutally-applied knuckles.

    ::soft sigh:: I would have given anything to have had a friend like Marigold. Heck, any friend, actually.

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