Lio by Mark Tatulli for September 04, 2009

Oh Lio, I thought it was wonderful.

Hey! You’re absolutely right, Margueritem! That was an “A” paper, for sure!

I like a school that still uses Dunce caps !

Nope, sorry. We would have accepted “and now drives a spanking new Beemer” or “and now Humptey drives a new Beemer”. He deserves the dunce cap for his tortured cadence.

Long ago I heard an addendum to the poem…

“But an American doctor, With patience and glue Put Humpty together again As good as new”.

For genius, he certainly writes bad stories.

“Lio” is stealing ideas from “Pearls Before Swine” now?

Oh, that’s right… When I was in first grade, I was Humpty Dumpty in a school presentation of nursery rhymes. I just sat on a table holding a large cardboard drawing of HD and yelled my lines.

FWIW, it’s not “beemer” the bastardization of “Bimmer” by the yuppies and wanna-bes when the nouveau riche discovered the neat German car I’d been driving for 15 years.

Wait, stealing what from PEARLS BEFORE SWINE?! I love how people throw down an accusation of plagiarism and then just walk away.

humpty should have added the town planning board and the town building commissioner and gotten enough to drive a mercedes

A dunce cap? You’d think that he’d at least get a decent grade for his candor.

Re. “dunce”: No way!

Re. “stealing”: After thinking about it for a while, I suspect mblase75 is referring to the re-writing of children’s stories, which is an occasional theme in PBS. I don’t think this is the same thing at all.

Poor Lio. Being creative is not all it’s cracked up to be.

It must be a business law class and his teach knows that a good defense lawyer would take this case apart…as Humpty is nothing more than a loitering bum that has nothing to bring to society except his sitting around on the kingdom’s walls, bringing down property values, and now with the public option on the horizon, his PPO will go away and he’ll just be scrambled, with nobody wanting his high cholesterol self.

I love Lio’s “high hopes” in the fourth panel. Life is like that sometime.

Humpty was pushed!

I agree with koiness, Mark - the only thing that troll could possibly have meant was when Rat writes the “childrens’ stories”. Seriously not even close to the same thing - just a troll stopping by….

Bill Watterson was right. lots of “Kids” in comics are mini adults (from the C&H 10th anniversary book, i thinPr

Of course the dunce cap was deserved - for that terrible attempt at rhyming “builder” with “beemer”! :)

That’s what Liō gets for going verbal. He should stick with the sight gags.

& what’s wrong with trolls? I’m sure some of Liō’s best friends live under bridges. It’s fun to go down there & poke things with a stick.

Love ya, Lio……this sums up my entire school experience in one panel!!!

I agree Marg.

Aww, I thought it was awesome.

Lio has become my most favorite comic strip since I read Bloom County in the newspaper back in……what the eighties?….

Good grief. As for “stealing,” Dennis the Menace was rewriting nursery rhymes big time back in the 60’s so Pearls Before Swine was hardly there first. Writing humor is a bit like writing music - there are only so many themes out there. Originality stems from what you do with those themes; do you achieve slavish duplicity or a marvelous recasting?

A good example of this would be Calvin & Hobbes wonderful series about the mutant snowmen marching around Calvin’s yard. Peanuts, years before, had Linus building snowmen armies and having various imaginary adventures with them. That earlier precedent hardly diminishes Waterson’s wonderful reworking of the basic concept.

‘nuff with the rant. Lio rocks.

Hi, I don’t comment very often so far, but I agree: Lio does rock. I need my daily dose of Lio otherwise, I feel off kilter and out of balance. Plus, oddly, when I’m feeling out of balance and off kilter, I can usually rely on Lio for giving me a much needed boost with laughter. Thanks Mark.

Here’s a better-rhyming alternative:

“The bricklayer said ‘I’m most terribly sorry,’ but still Humpty sued him, and got a Ferrari.”

http://www.gocomics.com/pearlsbeforeswine/2012/09/23

lol this is like pearls.

Lio’s teacher is a philistine.