FoxTrot Classics by Bill Amend for August 22, 2009
August 21, 2009
August 24, 2009
Transcript:
Peter: What's with the kiddie dress? Paige: It's to replace the one of Katie O'Dell's taht she destroyed while I was babysitting. It's amazing how one little mistake can be so expensive. This dress cost me four nights' pay. Plus I had to spend a whole two hours apologizing to Katie's Mom for falling asleep! Still, the experience has taught me a few things. Peter: Oh? Paige: For starts, a new way to have fun with dad. Roger: Andy, have you seen the size of the back-to-school outfits our daughter is buying?!
SGIBeachbum about 15 years ago
That is how Roger lost his hair.
tbree about 15 years ago
Well, Paige could tell her dad that it’s for a baby. Then he’ll really loose the hair!
Ronshua about 15 years ago
Having raised 3 wonderful Daughters THIS IS NOT FUNNY . The fourth miracle is I still have all my hair .
Rakkav about 15 years ago
What’s not funny about it?
Never mind, I think I’ve answered myself. If one can suspend disbelief (and summary judgment) on the ironies of a dysfunctional family like the Foxes, then one can laugh at their foibles.
Some ironies hit closer to home with any one reader than others do. I have no family, but I don’t have a lot of hair and tofu to me tastes pretty much like nothing at all. :) FT for me is funniest when Jason’s involved, as he and I were a lot alike (save that I never disliked girls at any time). It’s least funny when it reminds me of my deadbeat dad.
Please pardon the soapboxing; as you were…:)
aleansinclair about 15 years ago
What’s dysfunctional about the Foxes? They seem pretty functional to me.
Ronshua about 15 years ago
OK I relent ha ha you are right .
josh_bisbee about 15 years ago
The only reason it functions is because of Andy. She leaves, everything falls apart.
Templo S.U.D. about 15 years ago
Breathe in through nose… [inhaling] …out through mouth [exhaling] (Noriyuki “Pat” Morita [1932-2005] as Mr. Miyagi from THE KARATE KID).
Now you try, Roger-san. Come on. Breathe in through nose… [inhaling] …out though mouth… [exhaling].
[Roger breathing in and out violently.]
No, no, no. Not violently! Breathe peacefully.
[Roger breathing in and out peacefully.]
Good, then “if … [Roger]-san get [upset], just you repeat [these] words: ‘the sun is warm, the grass is green’” (Mr. Morita again as Mr. Miyagi in THE NEXT KARATE KID).
lululu9 about 15 years ago
WHAT?????
unidawn10 about 15 years ago
There is no way she could even fit one leg into those clothes so no need for Roger to go crazy
Donna White about 15 years ago
It’s not her leg Roger’s worried about!