Cul de Sac by Richard Thompson for February 28, 2022

Like last week, a little over 10 years ago, Richard posted a blog entry introducing the artist for this week’s non-Sunday strips: 

http://richardspooralmanac.blogspot.com/2012/02/this-weeks-cul-de-sacs.html 

It perhaps pointed to what’s shown at the following webpages: 

http://web.archive.org/web/20120118112236/http://fakerockstar.tumblr.com 

http://www.gocomics.com/theelderberries/2012/02/27?comments=visible 

http://www.gocomics.com/barkeaterlake/2012/02/27?comments=visible 

his TOBY strip (since dropped by GoComics, though 

https://www.gocomics.com/blog/617/corey-pandolph-barkeater-lake-the-elderberries-toby 

still refers to it), and 

http://web.archive.org/web/20120229102820/http://areasofmyexpertise.com

Yesterday’s and the next 2 Sunday’s are reruns of Sunday strips by Richard from March, 2009.

know of any preschools who teach penmanship (as in cursive)?

I wasn’t taught cursive until 3rd grade.

Miss Bliss has that glassyeyed, close to the edge smile on her lips today. When nap time comes later on kids, don’t put your heads down.

This is exceptionally good, especially from a guest cartoonist. He works in four characters. Each has a line that works for his or her established personality, and concludes with Dill’s punchline about his brother. Bravo!

If we were to see the example of the notes Dill’s brother sends, I wonder if it’s words cut out of magazines and glued on the paper to form sentences?

Like a lot of the others, I learned cursive in second grade then changed schools for the third grade. That school taught cursive in the third grade. I used to take pride in my handwriting but now I shake too much so prefer to type.

Good penmanship? Why? What good is that on phones and tablets?

No preschool, I went to a one-room school. All eight grades in one room. There were only six of us in school, so wasn’t crowded. Worked out fine for me, if I was bored with what I was supposed to be learning, I could listen to the other classes and could practice reading or penmanship all day if I wanted.

I was taught cursive by my uncle George, who could swear like a sailor.

What do you mean, Dill? Are they cut out of magazines?

Note to girl next door: MOVE!

Corey Pandolph this week.

Speaking of cursive writing, compare Richard Thompson’s signature on yesterday’s Sunday strip to that of one year ago.

How about the lost art of passing notes in class, or of letter writing?

Ah, the glorious Palmer Method exercises! We did learn good penmanship back in early grammar school of The Good Old Days.

It’s not a quality nap that Miss Bliss needs, Alice. You’ll understand when you get several years older….

Good penmanship today, Spencerian script tomorrow!