Frazz by Jef Mallett for June 17, 2024

Don’t tell her which ones you read as she might leave them off the list…

We didn’t have reading lists when I went to school, but I still read one heck of a lot of books.

We were told to read three books of our choice from the list. I think it wasn’t that long of a list either.

Then what would the early bird eat? According to an earlier B.C. comic, the ‘early bird’ ate a worm, spit it up, then declared for ham and eggs.

Do they have summer reading lists in Public School. I had them in Catholic School, but not Public School. And despite being a voracious reader, I could never get through the 3 books on the summer reading list, just because it was required.

School finally ended for the summer last Friday in this area. Seemed late to me. I don’t recall ever going this late when I was in school.

Nice try, kid. I hope the list has kids’ classics, and not some of the modern garbage I’ve heard about.

So the kid learns a valuable lesson about doing some tasks early…

I don’t know how Mrs. Olsen can possible disagree with such unassailable logic!

PHD potential there…

Actually, the early bird does have to eat worms, whether they’re on the menu or not.

Give them time, they are working on the menu already.

The early bird gets the worm, but the SECOND mouse gets the cheese.

I had read almost all of the books at least 2 years before they were assigned in school at my time as student. Except for a few boring „classics“ like Goethe’s „Die Leiden des jungen Werther“ (German of course) or J.D.Salinger’s „The catcher in the rye“ (in English). That last one is still unfinished for close to half a century now.

The reason Mrs. Olson has a summer reading list is because she knows she’ll be getting every one of these students back again in the fall.

Seems Jef uses a kid other than Caulfield when he wants someone similar but slightly dumber.

Every book my teachers wanted me to read I found tedious and not worth the paper it was written on. Shakespeare and GB Shaw I enjoyed but the rest? Overrated twaddle. Me for non-fiction.

See yesterday’s Mark Trail for why worms are bad.

Martin Luther was subjected to a Diet of Worms.

Me, too!