The Argyle Sweater by Scott Hilburn for November 15, 2023

And Ms Mac will play the overture.

Love the little man on Ms. Mac’s desk!

Applesauce!!

The kid with him didn’t fare so well.

He’s not playing for sympathy. That drama is a real Schiller!

Really? How did his dad’s seed get planted to produce (lead to) him?

Yes, Willie, they get the point.

And as a bonus, he shot the worm!

So his dad had “an arrow escape” (Three Stooges line, from Restless Knights)

I hope they threw a gala for him.

Teacher married Mac the knife.

Then he went out and got sauced

And lived to tell the Tell.

Scott missed a great opportunity, the teacher should have been Ms Crabapple.

Is Mrs. McIntosh going to eat that human on her desk?

The kid in the back row turned green with Envy, and his mother will be a Granny Smith one day.

Well, he lived until they ate him.

Well…I guess it beats having the kid bring in an AK to school; with the accompanying panic, over reaction, Police swarming the school, etc…

There’s probably a market for a book about neglected supporting characters from various myths, legends, and fairy tales. Here we learn about William Tell’s apple, but what about the spider who watched the ant and the grasshopper matching work styles or Rapunzel’s overworked hairdresser?

His name is Apple Jack.

a little known fact is that William Tell and his son were in a bowling league. But all records as to who the sponsors were have vanished. So nobody knows for whom the Tells bowled. (I’ll let myself out.)

The kid got to the core of the story and it was juicy.

“He lived… but he’s now rotten to the core!”

Hmmm, teacher eats men? Kid, your pop has an apple-split personality.

Time flys like an arrow, fruit fly’s like an apple.

….and here all these years, I thought it was Granny Smith who was the teacher….

is show and tell part of the core curriculum…?

He had an arrow escape

They eat . . . people?