FoxTrot Classics by Bill Amend for August 17, 2016

Paige certainly has lost her mind. Good luck getting the hunks, girl (except that self-accalimed hunk named Morton Goldthwait).

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Joshua said, yesterday

I was lucky enough (or reading lists were never popular with schools) to not have a reading list. I love reading, but being told what to read takes a lot of the fun out of it.______________________________

I never had a summer reading assignment list per se, but one year I had a summer reading DARE from a teacher. She loved romance books of the Harlequin style. I would tease her about it: how can you read that stuff? It’s terrible! She told me to read just a few over the summer (she found out I’ve never read any) and, in the fall, tell her what I thought. As luck would happen, my mother managed to get a whole box of them for her consignment sideline, and I asked to borrow it. I read more than a few! In the fall, I approached the teacher, handed her my list of titles, and said, “They’re STILL terrible!”

She could just wear a red light on her head

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