Wizard of Id Classics by Parker and Hart for August 11, 2023

Literacy rates are at an all-time low in Id,

If they’re all illiterate, who wrote the petition?

X marks the spot.

They signed what someone told them was a petition for improving education. They couldn’t write their names so they had to take someone’s word as the the real contents of the petition. Happens more often these days.

florIDa, 2030AD.

The illiterate first have to learn to read before a school can help them.

Writing skills in the real world are also at an all time low. I have seen monkeys hold a pencil better than some university grads. If they had to write with an old fashioned post office pen and have to dip the nib in an ink well they would be completely stumped.

4,000 exes.? Sounds like Jack Nicholson’s little black book.