Phoebe and Her Unicorn by Dana Simpson for October 02, 2018

Marigold and Hobbes would get along pretty well.

I don’t see anything awkward about the way people in general walk. Specific cases, yeah, but not as an average.

Aww c’mon Phoebe! You seriously didn’t ask your teacher?!

She’s a nine (10?) year old girl. They can be foolish.

Yeah, because now you’re never going to hear the end of it, Marigold.

That moment when Phoebe and Marigold have the same face

Asking him won’t be nearly as embarrassing as when it’s time for her to give her assignment and not having it because she didn’t remember what it was.

In 7th grade my mom’s friend called me to get her son’s homework assignments. I got halfway through the list when I remembered that her son wasn’t in any of my classes.

Poor Marigold. You’ve learned that our words often come back to haunt us. Just ask all those people posting on Facebook.

To walk we much constantly be on the verge of falling flat on our faces. We have no balancing tail either.

Maybe the odd knack of walking—and even running—while balancing forever on two legs is human beings’ magic? (It would explain why most have no, or very little, “surplus” magic to use on/for other things.) In John Varley’s 1979 science fiction novel “Titan” (the first of a trilogy set in Gaea, an alien “biological space colony” found orbiting Saturn in 2024), the resident centaurs marveled that the marooned human crew of the D.S.V. Ringmaster never toppled over, balanced forever on two legs.

Humans are efficient. Equines use too many legs to do the job. ;-)