Stone Soup by Jan Eliot for August 27, 2013
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6 x 8 Gramma Evie: OK, let's do EIGHTS> Holly: @*%# Gramma Evie: Holly, I'm just trying to HELP. Math will be easier for you when you can do some of it IN YOUR HEAD. 6 x 8 Gramma Evie: So don't shoot the messenger. 8 x 6 = Holly: How about if I shoot the messenger IN MY HEAD?
I still don’t understand why she’s doing her times tables. I know she’s an insufferable brat who needs to be smacked but nothing in the strip has ever indicated she was mentally backward.