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   Margueritem said, 2 months ago

   Oh Lio, I thought it was wonderful.

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   Sisyphos said, 2 months ago

   Hey! You’re absolutely right, Margueritem! That was an “A” paper, for sure!

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   tgaml said, 2 months ago

   I like a school that still uses Dunce caps !

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   CaptXpendable said, 2 months ago

   Nope, sorry. We would have accepted “and now drives a spanking new Beemer” or “and now Humptey drives a new Beemer”. He deserves the dunce cap for his tortured cadence.

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   wndrwrthg said, 2 months ago

   Long ago I heard an addendum to the poem…

   “But an American doctor,
   With patience and glue
   Put Humpty together again
   As good as new”.

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   Colt9033 said, 2 months ago

   For genius, he certainly writes bad stories.

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   mblase75 said, 2 months ago

   “Lio” is stealing ideas from “Pearls Before Swine” now?

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   lohaces said, 2 months ago

   Oh, that’s right… When I was in first grade, I was Humpty Dumpty in a school presentation of nursery rhymes. I just sat on a table holding a large cardboard drawing of HD and yelled my lines.

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   wimpy01 said, 2 months ago

   FWIW, it’s not “beemer” the bastardization of “Bimmer” by the yuppies and wanna-bes when the nouveau riche discovered the neat German car I’d been driving for 15 years.

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    mtatulli said, 2 months ago

    Wait, stealing what from PEARLS BEFORE SWINE?!
    I love how people throw down an accusation of plagiarism and then just walk away.

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    bald 716 said, 2 months ago

    humpty should have added the town planning board and the town building commissioner and gotten enough to drive a mercedes

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    BlitzMcD said, 2 months ago

    A dunce cap? You’d think that he’d at least get a decent grade for his candor.

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    koiness said, 2 months ago

    Re. “dunce”: No way!

    Re. “stealing”: After thinking about it for a while, I suspect mblase75 is referring to the re-writing of children’s stories, which is an occasional theme in PBS. I don’t think this is the same thing at all.

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    whardin1960 said, 2 months ago

    Poor Lio. Being creative is not all it’s cracked up to be.

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    lobkiller said, 2 months ago

    It must be a business law class and his teach knows that a good defense lawyer would take this case apart…as Humpty is nothing more than a loitering bum that has nothing to bring to society except his sitting around on the kingdom’s walls, bringing down property values, and now with the public option on the horizon, his PPO will go away and he’ll just be scrambled, with nobody wanting his high cholesterol self.

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    Busy_Bee said, 2 months ago

    I love Lio’s “high hopes” in the fourth panel. Life is like that sometime.

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    psychlyst said, 2 months ago

    Humpty was pushed!

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    Doriation said, 2 months ago

    I agree with koiness, Mark - the only thing that troll could possibly have meant was when Rat writes the “childrens’ stories”. Seriously not even close to the same thing - just a troll stopping by….

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    chinook2 said, 2 months ago

    Bill Watterson was right. lots of “Kids” in comics are mini adults (from the C&H 10th anniversary book, i thinPr

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    vawser said, 2 months ago

    Of course the dunce cap was deserved -
    for that terrible attempt at rhyming “builder” with “beemer”!
    :)

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    Doctor Toon said, 2 months ago

    It always amazes me that some people seem to feel that if a comic reminds them of one that they have read before in any way, it is stolen.

    There are nearly 300,000 comic in my archive, I’ve read at least twice that many.
    Repeated themes and concepts is very common.

    Don’t even get me started on the people that think a tribute or parody strip is a copyright violation.

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    ChukLitl said, 2 months ago

    That’s what Liō gets for going verbal.
    He should stick with the sight gags.

    & what’s wrong with trolls?
    I’m sure some of Liō’s best friends live under bridges.
    It’s fun to go down there & poke things with a stick.

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    PickleGoddess said, 2 months ago

    Love ya, Lio……this sums up my entire school experience in one panel!!!

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    Requin said, 2 months ago

    I agree Marg.

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    neonlimegreen. said, 2 months ago

    Aww, I thought it was awesome.

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    Chikuku said, 2 months ago

    Lio showed creativity and imagination; should have had an A plus. It’s the teacher who’s a dunce.

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    comicsnoob said, 2 months ago

    Lio has become my most favorite comic strip since I read Bloom County in the newspaper back in……what the eighties?….

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    Steve said, 2 months ago

    Good grief. As for “stealing,” Dennis the Menace was rewriting nursery rhymes big time back in the 60’s so Pearls Before Swine was hardly there first. Writing humor is a bit like writing music - there are only so many themes out there. Originality stems from what you do with those themes; do you achieve slavish duplicity or a marvelous recasting?

    A good example of this would be Calvin & Hobbes wonderful series about the mutant snowmen marching around Calvin’s yard. Peanuts, years before, had Linus building snowmen armies and having various imaginary adventures with them. That earlier precedent hardly diminishes Waterson’s wonderful reworking of the basic concept.

    ‘nuff with the rant. Lio rocks.

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    guitarmutt said, 2 months ago

    Hi, I don’t comment very often so far, but I agree: Lio does rock. I need my daily dose of Lio otherwise, I feel off kilter and out of balance. Plus, oddly, when I’m feeling out of balance and off kilter, I can usually rely on Lio for giving me a much needed boost with laughter. Thanks Mark.

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    SherlockWatson said, 2 months ago

    Here’s a better-rhyming alternative:

    “The bricklayer said ‘I’m most terribly sorry,’
    but still Humpty sued him, and got a Ferrari.”