Friday TOONs - Passed

[JHB]

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If it's no longer Friday when you see this, be sure to also check out Weekend TOONs - Climate Change

Passed

The Republican Cat in the Hat

Not “Bow wow wow Ginger”

Charting Progress (and Regress)

Minding your p’s and q’s (and d’s and t’s)

In case you missed any over the last week:
(I stand by my lack of promises that I'll remember to include this every day)

3/6: Weekend TOONs - Year Of The Scapegoat

3/7: Doonesbury - Apologists Not Excepted

3/8: Monday TOONs - One Born Every Minute

3/9: Tuesday TOONs - GOP: Boot The Vote

3/10: Wednesday TOONs - Heavy Lift

3/11: Thursday TOONs - The Bucket Brigade

[riversedge]

1. k and R

[abqtommy]

2. What a great colleciton this morning. When I was a child I appreciated the poetry I found

in the Road Runner comic books and Dr. Seuss so you can trust me when I say that
The Republican Cat In The Hat is sublime!

[KS Toronado]

14. That was my favorite today.

[steventh]

3. Thanks for Friday TOONs - (covid relief bill) Passed

Thanks for links to prior TOONs
k&r

[2naSalit]

4. Thank you!

[planetc]

5. Yay! Toons!

[Duppers]

6. Wasn't Great-Gma Queen looking at color charts

It was Prince Charles. But she could have ordered "The Firm" to take a hike and back off the young couple. And she didn't. 😠

[Maeve]

7. A little harsh on Elizabeth, but yea for St Padraig!

One of my pet peeves....

[JHB]

8. She's the one out front. Except for one or two others, "The Firm" is "Who?"...

...to most people, so she takes the brunt.

[Maeve]

9. True, but if you look at her husband's history even briefly....

I think you'll find a major source of the stupid in the family. I tend to think she's done the best she could given her circumstances (But no one should be in those circumstances; I'm anti-monarch--except for butterflies!)
Thanks for the toons!

[soldierant]

21. Amen to this!

I might add when we criticize royals it might be better to stick to their actual failings, not sraw men.

They actually work and often quite hard. the work they do is generally done elsewhere by NGOs and maybe it should be ... but they are not totally idle. Anyone old enough in Britain will likely tell you that Diana not only worked hard with children's charities, but worked herself to exhaustion. And I've never liked Charles - but he does work with preserving heritage sites, and Antiques Roadshow UK likes that.

[niyad]

10. Thank you for this excellent collection.

[dalton99a]

11. Kick

[nuxvomica]

12. A Dr. Seuss trivia question just came to mind

Why did he make up so many fictional words for his rhymes?

[KS Toronado]

13. Interesting question.......To get children to think outside the box?

[abqtommy]

16. Well, the first time a person uses a fictional word it's no longer fictional!

As I think about reading Dr. Seuss as a kid I come to the conclusions that first, it was
entertaining. Second, it introduced me/us to the use of language and illustration. Third,
it introduced and reinforced certain ethical and moral principles. These are all useful
things for people of any age to learn!

[nuxvomica]

17. The answer

Because the books were targeted to a specific age range, the publisher restricted Geisel to a very limited list of words that could be used for that age range, often much less than 100. But the publisher had no problem with him inventing words, so to meet the demands of a writing lot of rhyme with easy flowing meter and still make the story interesting, Geisel invented words, many of which can be found in common usage today.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

15. Thank you for the cartoons

[Hekate]

18. Kicktoons & thanks for the correction of St Padraic's nickname. Lauren & Marjorie as Thing 1&Thing 2

...is perfect for those two twits.

[mountain grammy]

19. K&R

[crickets]

20. Thanks, JHB! K&R