Doonesbury by Garry Trudeau for September 14, 2010

Just give her the Oakleys!

Of course he never learned cursive.. they learned texting!

Is this Jeff’s summer daydream?

he is on to them trying to forge his writing by using his signature as a template.. Meanwhile the enemy will try to undermine rascals reputation by pointing out documents done in his hand writing.the prez will then get involved because like him the red-rascall has been usurped by evil masterminds that want to destroy our red state values…notice the relation of red hair to red states….BTY ..haha.

When I posted this I was not drunk…just really tierd, just worked 18 hrs. but wanted to catch up on this….

“never learned cursive.”

Yup, that rings true. At least half of the middle school students I know can neither read nor write cursive.

I’d be more than happy if “Doonesbury” was confined to the two levels of “Red Rascal:” the adventures of RR himself; and Jeff’s adventures as he peddles the comic.

Gweedo Murray,

Cursives!

Direct deposit strikes again.

Jeff is dressed to impress, meeting the head honcho, and signing autographs! Not bad for a “loser”, as posters are wont to label him.

However, this series is just a time killer, as I’m looking forward to the upcoming pre-election Tea Party/Palin-a-thon.

jeanne1212 said

Of course he never learned cursive… they learned texting!

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Bingo, “jeanne”. That’s probably the joke GT rather subtly presented.

I think we all know one cartoonist who saw “Dinner with Schmucks” this summer.

@DirtyDragon:

Aaaaaaah, yes! Of course!

I missed that one, so I can’t wait to see how this plays out, then.

The don’t teach cursive writing any more in public schools, nor do the desks still have inkwells attached (writing with feather pens was especially useful in cursive). The graphics arts classes don’t teach typesetting (as I learned to do), but they learn to use computers instead. In medical school, they don’t teach bloodletting and leach therapies, but have moved on to IV pumps.

Cursive is a wonderful skill to have when you’re hand-writing your novel, but people don’t do much of that any more. Other than signing your name, which doesn’t require a whole lot of practice, there’s not a whole lot of use for investing weeks of classroom time. Cursive may be artsy, but by using computers, we’re moving forward, not backwards.

^ Until the computer crashes……..

Um… what time is it… hmm… waking up here… Red Fern or whatever… has created image via Facebook, Twitter. Not always a perfect method. See today’s Dilbert.

“Nemesys”, are you telling us that college students no longer take notes in class lectures? Unless you’re a true speed typist (very few people are) banging in lecture notes on a laptop while an instructor is giving that day’s lesson is not practical. (And having three dozen or more students banging away on their individual laptops at once is something I don’t think very many university professors would tolerate.)

My own experience shows that if you don’t use it you greatly lose it, but I would be very amazed to learn that grade schools truly don’t teach cursive writing at all.

My uncle Max from Texas Can’t even write his name He signs his checks with X’s But they cash them just the same.

“Doin’ What Comes Nacherly” from “Annie Get Your Gun”

What if the merc’s hire him and then expect him to deliver?

Al, I teach as an adjunct at a state university and I have a few students who bring in laptops. Most of the others take notes in their own individual versions of outlines and chicken scratchings.

Great quote, 3139lip. Good cursive skills was a validation that your signature on a check was really yours. Today, we use magnetic ink and PIN numbers to serve the same purpose.

Proficiency in cursive isn’t required for effective note-taking. I can write well in cursive, but I can’t remember the last time I actually did so (other than signing a check, which even now with debit cards is fading away). In fact, a class requirement is that students participate in online discussion forums. If we’ve traded cursive writing for typing/keyboarding skills, I think it’s been a good trade.

I know the feeling, Aircraft-engineer. I know it all too welll…

But on the bright side, it looks like Jeff has taken my advice. The red tie is a nice look for him.

“Disguised as Jeff Redfern, mild-mannered agent for Overkill Security, The Red Rascal fights a never-ending battle against the forces of evil… All in the name of truth, justice, and the right to PAAAARRRR-TAYYYYYY!!!”

GlenBeck,, I must agree.

I’m in divinity school. Most of the older students use laptops, and all the doctoral students do. But I am in a class with first-years (a year or two out of undergrad school) and only about a third of them have laptops.

On a separate note, can it be that Jeff’s hair is being allowed to grow out?

Yes, I just noticed that, too…

Maybe it’s a sign that he’s nervous.

cursive, foiled again!

Schlafen Sie gut in Ihren klapprigen alten Bett, glenbeck.

Jeff is going to go for syndication! That’s where the $$ is!