Family Tree by Signe Wilkinson for August 23, 2009

Transcript:

Twig says, "My family is a living compendium of soporific banality." Maggie says, "Hey!" Maggie says, "What's with the fancy insults?" Twig says, "It's a vocab prep for a back-to-school quiz, all the state exams and eventually the SATs." Maggie says, "Fine. But how about practicing more positive words?" Twig says, "Whatever." Twig says, "The cognoscenti would never find my progenitors mildly scintillating." Maggie says, "I'm questioning this country's reliance on standardized testing." Ames says, "You look scintillating when you're mad!"