Non Sequitur by Wiley Miller for April 25, 2014

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    Ida No  over 10 years ago

    I can think of quite a few books that fit that description.

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    Varnes  over 10 years ago

    OK, we can narrow it down to a rural school, if she is the only problem they have to deal with….

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    watmiwori  over 10 years ago

    “Most opinions are wrong: any that don’t agree with mine….”

    Mrs Himmelscheisser is not impressed,

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    drjinx  over 10 years ago

    Non Catholic school. She gets a chance to think about it. Sooner or later, by random chance, she will find intelligence and wisdom,

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    pcolli  over 10 years ago

    At college, we were asked to write a critique of a certain work of fiction (which shall remain nameless). I gave my honest opinion that it seemed to be a self indulgent piece of historical romanticism that bore no resemblence to the real lives of people of that class in that particular time. (And so on)..I didn’t get marked as the author was the favourite of the lecturer. [Stupid, short, large woman with long blonde hair prone to wearing floppy hats and shapeless dresses.]

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    vwdualnomand  over 10 years ago

    those reviewers of movies, restaurants, and video games must get death threats quite a bit. some reviews are spot on that place/movie/vg is horrible. other times, people would disagree.

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    zellman  over 10 years ago

    Who told Danae that there was no such thing as a wrong opinion? There are billions of wrong opinions.

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    drjinx  over 10 years ago

    So, there is no wrong opinion, there is no right opinion. Who gives the right to judge ????

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    keenanthelibrarian  over 10 years ago

    Poor Danae. What she’s missing out on. But why should she be punished? Surely the teacher should be able to handle her problem. Always intrigued me – we are always told it’s our fault if we don’t get it, and yet it’s often the teacher’s rotten teaching that’s at fault.

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    sbchamp  over 10 years ago

    Not so, Danae. This haz FUBAR stamped all over it

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    puddlesplatt  over 10 years ago

    what realy matters, is your opinion!

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    trimguy  over 10 years ago

    I like how GoComics has circumvented my pop-up blocker and sticks a stupid video in the middle of he page, blocking the comic.

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    DBjorn  over 10 years ago

    “…and Punishment Emporium”

    I want THAT on my office door!

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    dabugger  over 10 years ago

    The long road to learning. For one little girl, experience is rough when avoiding the work.

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    steverinoCT  over 10 years ago

    My cousin married a cop who was proud of the fact that he had only read one book in his life; a collection of sports-figure biographies for a report in HS..I cannot fathom that; I was one of those kids that borrowed their parent’s library card to check stuff out of the adult (as in, “grown-up”, you pervs) section.

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    Argy.Bargy2  over 10 years ago

    The name on the door in the last frame is terrific….

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    hippogriff  over 10 years ago

    steverino: One of the greater moments of my life was when I found out I was permitted outside the children’s department. The universe opened.

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    David Rickard Premium Member over 10 years ago

    To paraphrase Umberto Eco: there’s no absolute right analysis of a novel, but there are wrong analyses.And that, Danae, was a wrong analysis.

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    peter0423  over 10 years ago

    @drjinxReading your contributions is like a flashback to the Sixties (and I’m old enough to have been there!) — the ranting of a drug-addled radical-wannabe, for whom grammar, arithmetic, self-control, and objective reality in general are all an authoritarian conspiracy against “free expression”. Sigh…I thought you guys had all grown up and moved on.

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    peter0423  over 10 years ago

    (Apologies for the duplicated post…GoComics hiccuped on me, or something.

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    strictures  over 10 years ago

    I did a similar book report in HS on some boring book we had to read.I don’t remember the book, but everything we were forced to read in HS was garbage.

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    Jessica_D  over 10 years ago

    It wasn’t the opinion, Danae, it was the presentation. Two more tweets with supporting examples might have been enough.

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    wrwallaceii  over 10 years ago

    For a college level American Lit class I had to read Upton Sinclair’s ‘The Jungle’. I couldn’t get past the slaughter house scenes and stopped reading. Well we had a (blue book) quiz on it and I wrote my impressions based on what I had read and then explained that the gory descriptions in the meat plant upset me enough that I never finished the book. I turned it in figuring that was an ‘F’ and left the room. I actually got a ‘C’ on it. The prof noted that what I wrote proved I had tried to read it and was accurate as far as I got…

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    Varnes  over 10 years ago

    Kim and puddleglum, any good teacher would give an A to those papers….Showing good understanding of the material, explaining points that you want to make in a clear, concise way, even in disagreement, is exactly what teachers should be looking for….A teacher usually loves being challenged on an idea…That’s where the rubber meets the road. First, it shows they’re paying attention, listening and thinking…We really like that…Second, it forces the teacher to think about it differently, and explain it different way. That can only help the teacher get better at presenting the subject….(Learn to teach. Teach to learn.) Third, when a teacher is being questioned, the whole class takes notice…(rooting for the student!) and then you have an attentive audience…..If you play to the other students in the discussion that results, you have a rare opportunity to imprint the understanding of the subject on their brains…. Win Win…

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    Dtroutma  over 10 years ago

    I can sympathize with Danae a bit on this one, had a disagreement with a college professor on our interpretation of the Book of Job from the bible. She gave me an “F”, on attendance, even though I had straight "A"s up to that point on all her tests, papers. Maybe have something to do with why I question “bible thumpers” on their “open mindedness”.

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    westny77  over 10 years ago

    Sorry babe you need to do the book report not do an editorial.

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    Caddy57  over 10 years ago

    Book reports are useless…..to any person beyond school age but , to a teacher, they show organizational skills. Also whether or not you actually did the work or not…..this seems to be Danae’s weak point….WORK.

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    hippogriff  over 10 years ago

    wrwallaceii: Sinclair famously complained, “I tried to touch their hearts; instead I hit their stomachs.” It did force the enactment of the Pure Food and Drug Act, which the capitalists have been trying to water down ever since.

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    Hunter7  over 10 years ago

    I seem to recall in both high school and college, the more I disliked a required reading, the higher the grade I obtained for the required report. .For some reason, teachers and profs always gushed and fawned over what I believed to be the most disagreeable novels.

    Lord Jim, Tess of the d’Urbervilles, I Never Promised You a Rose Garden. Rather have to struggle through physics than read those novels.

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    Asharah  over 10 years ago

    I can think of a few mandatory reading assignments that made me feel exactly like Danae. Seriously, “The Song Of Bernadaette” took like 10 chapters to get to the first vision. How much boring filler can you pad a book with?

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