Rubes by Leigh Rubin for April 20, 2021

She’s right, you know.

She has three fingers, a thumb that bends the wrong way, and no nostrils. Hey, MY disbelief is suspended…

You can plays all you want with stuffed toy bears, Goldilocks. But keeps away from our bear caves if you knows what’s good for you!

How do you live happily ever?

Jade seems a bit jaded.

Well then, sounds like you’re ready for Nightmare on Elm Street 2021!

G.K. Chesterton (later paraphrased by both Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman) wrote of the value of fairy tales:

“Fairy tales do not give the child his first idea of bogey. What fairy tales give the child is his first clear idea of the possible defeat of bogey. The baby has known the dragon intimately ever since he had an imagination. What the fairy tale provides for him is a St. George to kill the dragon.”

Peter Falk never had this problem.

I’ve heard that Hungarian fairy tales typically end with, in translation, “And they lived happily until they died.”

From the mouths of babes.

You might need to wait a few more years then.