Non Sequitur by Wiley Miller for March 23, 2024

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    willispate  12 months ago

    Panel 4 is hilarious! laughing

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    ACK! Premium Member 12 months ago

    If you can’t dazzle ’em with brilliance 


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    Wilde Bill  12 months ago

    Oddly enough, every one of my teachers who talked about “early retirement” ended up teaching my younger brother.

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    HidariMak  12 months ago

    If I were Danae’s teacher, I’d be considering drinking early.

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    PoodleGroomer  12 months ago

    Some reports are supposed to have an essence of truth.

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    enigmamz  12 months ago

    My class broke in new teachers in 2nd, 3rd, 5th and 6th grades.

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    Firebat  12 months ago

    Danae has a good point. I wouldn’t like to be her teacher though.

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    vlad8601  12 months ago

    the teacher missed the point. the assignment was all about creative writing

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    Jaddis  12 months ago

    The teacher longing for retirement is similar to Ms Wormwood in Calvin and Hobbes; for example – 3/1/93


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    cdward  12 months ago

    If I were the teacher, I’d probably tell Danae that I would file this for her next fiction assignment and expect a verifiable true-life rewrite on Monday (verified by a call to her dad). Of course, I could just fail her for not doing the assignment properly, but that wouldn’t really teach her anything other than to hate learning, and say what you will about Danae, she’s smart. If her creative talent can be positively directed, that’s a good thing.

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    nancyb creator 12 months ago

    That teacher is terrible. Danae wrote a great paper.

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    PraiseofFolly  12 months ago

    When my friends and I didn’t know the answer to a question on a Historal test, we would make up something fanciful and amusing. It was still marked incorrect — but over the years our teacher accumulated quite a collection of schoolboy humor.

    One friend wrote an entire term paper with footnotes attributing fictitious authorities, using the slightly disguised names of other students. Well, he said, at least the teacher can’t accuse me of plagiarism. [The teacher was a good enough sport to merely make him rewrite the paper.]
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    [Traveler] Premium Member 12 months ago

    In the army, pass-fail was “Go-No Go” as in “you are a No Go at this station”

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    boydjb47  12 months ago

    She blinded her with science 
fiction!

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    Redd Panda  12 months ago

    No one is honest in their memoirs.

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    ladykat Premium Member 12 months ago

    Danae, you’re wearing your teacher out.

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    sandpiper  12 months ago

    End of arc . . . I think. If so, thank goodness.

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    batesmom7  12 months ago

    Lots of students have created extra work and a low grade for themselves when responding to a list of directions to follow that begins with #1 Read the entire list before you respond" and ends with #10 Skip numbers 2 through 9, put your name on the paper and turn it in.

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    curtisrus  12 months ago

    Science fantasy, not (hard) science fiction.

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    SusieB  12 months ago

    Retiring early? She looks quite a bit over retirement age to me

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    david.reichert  12 months ago

    Danae’s hair doesn’t really qualifiy as “Bangs”, can we call it a “Bang”?

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    Dapperdan61  Premium Member 12 months ago

    Danae just broke another Teacher

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    pshapley Premium Member 12 months ago

    Years ago I applied for a job with Disney’s “Imagineers.” (I didn’t get the job.) I don’t know if they still use the name, but you’ve got to be careful using a word they invented.

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    Rauderi  12 months ago

    Best case scenario, Danae becomes a storyboard writer for Disney.

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    preacherman Premium Member 12 months ago

    My mother, a 3rd grade teacher, who taught for 39 years, retired early. Though her getting lymphoma probably had more to do the retirement than the kids. Of course, she didn’t have Danae in her class, either.

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    locake  12 months ago

    Who will retire first, Calvin’s teacher or Danae’s teacher?

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    pripley  12 months ago

    “Imagineered Memoir” sounds like a phrase Bucky over on Get Fuzzy would use. He is the master of imagineered vocabulary.

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    Holden Awn  12 months ago

    No, it’s not science fiction — it’s fantasy. There is a difference. Look it up.

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    kathleenhicks62  12 months ago

    I f she doesn’t stop the teacher will end up in a loony bin!

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    Mike Baldwin creator 12 months ago

    Did you use the words, I’m too old for this?

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    Richard S Russell Premium Member 12 months ago

    A good teacher would treasure a student like Danae (who comes along maybe 2-3 times in a career), water that flower, watch it grow and blossom, and tell the teacher in the next grade up the line what a treat they’ve got coming!

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    ChazNCenTex  12 months ago

    “Retire early”? She looks like she’s well past her ‘use by’ date.

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    daDoctah1  12 months ago

    Danae, dear, just add something like “and then I woke up” to the end. Your most memorable day was the day you had this particular fantasy (as you yourself say, way more memorable than anything that actually happened), so it clearly fits the terms of the assignment.

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    eddi-TBH  12 months ago

    Danae watches too many of the wrong TV shows.

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    MY DOG IS MY CO PILOT  12 months ago

    I can see Dane’s teacher and Miss Wormwood from Calvin and Hobbes in a retirement home together somewhere swapping war stories.

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    keenanthelibrarian  12 months ago

    An “Imagineered Memoir” – is that the same as “Alternative Facts”??

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    MichaelD Premium Member 12 months ago

    If Danae and Calvin ever met, would that be like dividing by zero?

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    [Unnamed Reader - 14b4ce]  12 months ago

    Lucy’s memoir about being owned by a weird little girl got an “A”

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    wordsmeet  8 months ago

    I kind of blame the teacher, though. One thing is to ask a child their favorite color or sports (blue, ping pong, in my case). Another thing is to give them an almost impossible description. Even a child might recollect several most memorable days in their life. This is postmodernist trash, as usual.

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