FoxTrot by Bill Amend for March 23, 2025

[Foghorn Leghorn referring to Roger] That boy, I say that boy’s about as sharp as a bowlin’ ball!

Paige has never really had a good Spring Break.

/s is good for sarcasm? I thought people just used :)…They’re interchangeable, right?

Moms speak teenage daughter very well.

A lot of guys just hear the words. They don’t usually listen to the contextual clues when anyone is talking.

I hope in a comic strip of the summer of 2025, the Foxtrots will travel to a warm island, I want to see them go out more.

Look up Poe’s Law.

Today’s missing classic is

gocomics.Com/foxtrot/2004/04/04

Had to explain the /s to someone in the Tarzan comic strip lately. He’d taken a horrifying comment as serious and was shocked… and a little curious what that /s at the end meant.

Come on, Andy! It doesn’t cost that much to go to the beach!

As a note, there is a regular daily strip in Foxtrot Classics today, for the third Sunday in a row. Not sure why GC has suddenly started doing this.

When I make an obviously outrageous political statement , I have to “/s” because people think I believe it to be true. That is how weird it is getting.

He is an example of a true idiot.

I thought it was /sarc ON and /sarc OFF. Or <sarc So much fun! sarc>

I have always said there needed to be a sarcasm font, had no idea someone invented something close to it. Will be using this a lot.

Is Roger that out of touch

Maybe /s is what’s missing from those posts I see about the Earth being flat!

Nothing like sarcasm!

Uh, Paige? Do you really want to spend Spring Break with Jason (and Quincy) in tow? Oh, and don’t even THINK about turning up the heat in the house…

There is nothing wrong with Page that making her get a job couldn’t fix. What a whiny Karen in training.

The most annoying thing you can do to someone who’s being sarcastic is to not hear it and act as if they’re being genuine. It never fails to infuriate them.

When I was her age I would have done anything to spend time, doing a puzzle with my narcissistic mother. I just didn’t know she was at that time and or why she hated me so much. Young people just don’t know what they have until it’s gone

My school never had Spring Break. I always thought it was just for college until I raised my own kids in a different state and they had it in elementary school.

Spring break was a wonderful time for teachers to take a break and plan for the rest of the school year, or just destress (try spending 8 hours with bouncy 10 year olds or surly teens all day, every day!). The bummer is that dumped kids at home when parents needed to work. Schools should provide child care during breaks, but that would require a country that actually cares about it’s children and families.

They must live in Vancouver

I have now added this comic to the “Sarcasm Blind” page of TV Tropes.

Comics like this are prime examples of how the world would benefit from a Sarcasm font.

Paige, you’re a high school freshman. If they did send you away for spring break it would just be a waste of time.

The slash s bit is a nice new twist, but it’s still the tired ol’ clueless dad bit. I also don’t care for mother-in-law jokes and fat wife jokes. Some things are better left in the past.

I don’t think spring break was even a thing when I was in high school back in the ‘70s. And if it was, it DEFINITELY didn’t include high school kids.

I honestly had no idea that’s what that was. I have never even seen that before. Where does it usually appear? In texts or something??

50s and 60s schools in Western NY had “Easter Vacation” Thursday or Friday through the following week. Back then many union workers had only half day on Good Friday, supposedly so they could spend the afternoon in church.

In my lifetime, spring break was a chance for overtime and make some bank. Hell, I can party anytime, but the coin I made paid for a lot of future adventures.

Back in my day (she crackled in a wizened voice…), Spring Break just meant a chance to sleep late, read a ton of (non-assigned) books, and catch some TV without homework hanging over my head. By the time it meant traveling to the nearest coast and getting blackout drunk and sick and making life-altering decisions – I was toiling away at a “real job” that didn’t give a spring break. :-)

Growing up, during spring break I had to go plant tomatoes.