Doonesbury by Garry Trudeau for September 27, 2023

But it does help to know when booking plane tickets when going home for Christmas.

And then his parents drove away laughing hysterically.

That dude doesn’t know what he’s in for with those two!!

I once taught Science in the 6th (joint) worst high school in the UK, in a port town on the Thames Estuary. A student told me she went on holiday abroad, I asked her where? ‘No, we went Abroad.’ On detailed questioning it became clear she though Abroad was a place, and had no idea what overseas country she had been to.

Handed out blank maps of Europe as part of a quiz. Students were to label any 5 countries on the map. Had a student who labeled Bulgaria as the United States, but in the student’s favor – Romania to the north was labeled Canada. (It was a college in a city with a really bad public school system.)

I guess I didn’t know Walden was in Connecticut, either. Never really thought about it.

I went to college in the State of Confusion. Oddly, my girlfriend matriculated in the State of Denial.

Given a map of 50 states with no names, maybe 1 out of 50 college kids could name them all

Never mind the weed. The “must” is where you can get a good burger.

Louie’s Lunch in New Haven. Mrs. Bartley’s at Harvard.

Trump wants to know why Menendez has gold bars and he doesn’t.

At least he only has to wait 15 more years for expanded internet…. then wade thru Compuserve, then Prodigy, then AOL.. & FINALLY he gets Google!

Have we ever actually seen, in the strip, whichever one of Zonker’s siblings is Zipper’s parent?

Universities don’t care that your an idiot, they will just continue cashing your checks.

You’re in the state of confusion. Don’t worry about it, as long as your paying your tuition you’ll be good to go.

Californians should realize that states are much smaller in New England and the surface roads are very curvy. It is possible to cross a state line several times just on a commute to work. :)

Shouldn’t Walden be in Massachusetts? That is where Walden pond is, after all.

He lives in the state of laziness

Anything!

The state of denial.

It’s like that with young people in certain areas of the US too. There’s a lot they have to learn yet.

These three are tied for the most dreadful haircut. And I don’t mean dreads as dreadlocks.