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   watmiwori said, about 1 year ago

   Francis GRADUATED???!!! Who’d a thunk it!!!
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   win said, about 1 year ago

   myself and 2 cohorts wore propellers on our mortarboards (we were all honor students, no less)
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   Johnny Potseed said, about 1 year ago

   Dare to be different – learn to be lonely
   If you don’t want to, do what the rest do
   Dare to be different
   If you think you’ve got it – why don’t you flaunt it
   If you don’t want to, do what the rest do
   Dare to be different
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   stripseeker said, about 1 year ago

   Really feel sorry for these guys. Many of them will go on to college with the notion that it will lead to financial security, with prosperity just around the corner
   After turning that corner, most will find that a college diploma will lead to a lifetime of regret for the mountain of debt incurred for the privilege of receiving a piece of paper that says they’ve graduated with no jobs to go to .
   Of course, the size of the mountain depends upon the amount Mom and Pop shelled out to the college. Happy Father’s Day, Pop.
   The college rakes in a fortune, the grad gets the piece of paper.
   Along the way, some corporation may bestow upon them the great privilege of working for them as “interns”. Translation:working for free or next to nothing. It’s the American way. As Charlie would say, “Good grief”.
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   Newenglandah said, about 1 year ago

   @watmiwori

   The reality is that a U.S. high school diploma means nothing these days. I volunteer at an adult literacy progam; you would not believe how many of them are high school graduates, and even some college graduates. We have to start most of them by teaching them to read such basic words as cat, hat, rat, and sat.
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   SUSAN NEWMAN said, about 1 year ago

   Francis’ major must have been Basic Laziness.
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   Donald Williams said, about 1 year ago

   @win

   I’ll probably catch hell for this; but an honor student should be able to construct a sentence properly: “Two cohorts and I….” (along with capitalization and punctuation)?
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   dmitch65 said, about 1 year ago

   Some high school that must have been to graduate Francis…
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   lightenup said, about 1 year ago

   Not the kind of award Momma was hoping for.
   
   

   I was hoping that it would have been something about Father’s Day, but I guess since there’s no father figure in this strip…
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    Newenglandah said, about 1 year ago

    @lightenup

    Actually, we have not seen Thomas’ son Chuckie in quite some time. Thomas is, however, a father. There is also Jerome, Sonya’s deceased husband who occasionally shows up as an angel in heaven or when Sonya talks to his framed picture.
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    stripseeker said, about 1 year ago

    @Donald Williams
    A stickler for details.
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    stripseeker said, about 1 year ago

    @Newenglandah
    Where in Maine are you from, love? Think you would enjoy the Non Sequitur strip as there are a couple of recurring characters in that strip with the same accent as yours. My sister, who lived in Maine for many years, informed me that the strip originates from Kennebunk.
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    Newenglandah said, about 1 year ago

    @stripseeker

    Yes, Wiley does capture the type of people who live in small-town Maine. I enjoy the strip very much.
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    DAZZ said, about 1 year ago

    I believe it. I hear teachers spokespersons at protests on news. More than likely the spokesperson will have multiple mistakes in grammer while speaking to the press
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    comicsssfan said, about 1 year ago

    Everyone’s got a puffed up chest like they are accepting a professional degree.
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