What happened to the Hillary ladies and the Napalm ?

This was funny. Credit where credit is due.

Breathed, that one is seriously bent.

ha.

from : As You Like It. 11. v, by William Shakespeare.

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Under the Greenwood Tree` Who loves to lie with me.

And turn his merry note under the sweet birds throat,

Come hither, come hither, come hither : Here shall he see, No enemy but winter and rough weather. Who doth ambition shun and loves to live i` the sun, Seeking food he/she eats, And pleased with what he gets, Come hither, come hither, come hither : Here shall he see no enemy...

But winter and rough weather. W.S.

`

from As You Like It. 11. vii.

.... Although thy breath be rude. Heigh-ho! sing heigh-ho, unto the green holly : Most friendship is feigning, most loving mere folly : Then heigh-ho the holly! ... Freeze, freeze, thou bitter sky that dost not bite so nigh as benefits forgot : Though thou the waters warp. Thy sting is not so sharp. As friends remembered not. Heigh-ho! sing heigh-ho, unto the green holly : Most friendship is feigning, most loving mere folly : Then heigh-ho the holly!

This life is most jolly.

`

The part I liked best was the script written.

Opus letting his Mom win @ tick-tack-toe.

The circle closes!

Very funny, I liked it.

Having a bad mother is indeed almost de rigour these days.

Considering today's dedicated to denying there's a dark side to mothers, this is bracing. That the honchos at WaPo didn't axe it like they did Breathed's skewering of neocons, is a credit to moms not WaPo.

In Act Eleven, Scene Five of As You Like It, William Shakespeare did not use the twentieth-century lawyers' term he/she.

For a change, he isn't doing easy political jokes, or rehashing his characters' crippling mental deficiencies. Well, not simply rehashing. He precisely skewered Mother's Day and the "blame your parents" variety of psychobabble.

By the way, isn't it interesting that Opus is the only penguin in the strip? Is his beak that much bigger than other penguins - and without comparison, how would we know? Did he even go see March of the Penguins or Surf's Up or, God help us, Happy Feet? Could he be a mutant? Maybe Opus should make the trip up to Greymalkin Lane and apply to the Xavier Institute.

I was taking a liberty so a prytania would not accuse me of being a leftist feminist. I added the "She" to include a prytania.

You are a literalist?

I feared quoting you.

Who quotes master-baiters?

Your critical analysis makes be want to recite a few other 'put downs' in literature, but it's a honor good Mom's Day. I'll pass.

I was wondering this of you?

Do you like poached bird eggs?

I have a few I'll throw in your face? No. Why waste good quail eggs. Save them for the mason pickle jar. huh. Never mind. Thud. goo.

intended or not - on this most sanctified, special and desperately needed day - that Opus, unable or unwilling to relate authentically as an adult to another adult in his past, must instead use a stand-in and a culturally-sanctioned script and cannot tolerate the distress generated by an accidental, off-script, real exchange in the here-and-now that might challenge him to grow out of his need for an idealized, caretaking “Mother”?

Just like children everywhere?

Happy Arrested Childhood Day.

If banal stalk! (ineptly) cite chapter and worse (or be act and scene?), eggslingerexclaymationmark glom the bibliograffical necessitationmade? Quoth acquarkly? Profread? Punk-two-eight eggsightedly?

Kerflunk!

Not every Salon reader knows Russian. If in doubt, read a few of prytania's back vocabulary. He's English? Well, Welch? Hungarian? Hungry? okay.

Have some borscht beet soup with goat milk cream.

It's a good habit routine. You must be so brilliant?

Or, instead of many nightmares and "weird" shrills,

You just wish you could enjoy an erotic daydream?

We've met Opus's mom - he made a special journey to find her. She's cold and unloving. Yes, all the other penguins have sleek, ordinary penguin noses. It was briefly suggested that Opus was actually a puffin.

This week's cartoon is a bit of a Rorschach test. Tomreedtoon seems to think it's making fun of the modern "blame your mother" attitude. I have a feeling those who can remember moments of terror hiding from mother's latest insane outburst get something a little different out of it.

or a big one -- with women? therapy costs money -- it's pretty ingenious to get others to pay for it. (is ingenious the word i am looking for)?

I didn't have a perfect mother, but I didn't have an abusive one. I've known some people who did. And some people whose "abuse" was an excuse for their own failings.

As I said, this was the best Breathed strip I've ever seen in Salon. That we had such a personal conversation, over a strip that's usually just silly if not banal, is proof.

English enough for you?

And I am not a "he."

Well. why didn't you yell us. "he" huh.? Why you swooning at the smell of goat milk breath morons? Who knows who reads here? You may have butterfly tattoos on your legs. Do you enter the annual Moron Shrieking contest? What's with you?

I'll buy you season tickets to a local fireman carnival.

Maybe a ride on a Moron Go Round gets you dizzy?

Maybe folk just are sad and were freed from a Nazis refuge camp.

Maybe a paranoia exist in prytania Why do you need to name-call?

Maybe a parakeet in a cage scared you when you were a little child?.

Tomreedtoon asked; 'By the way, isn't it interesting that Opus is the only penguin in the strip? Is his beak that much bigger than other penguins - and without comparison, how would we know?'

Jesus, for someone who's like clockwork coming in here every week to skewer Mr. Breathed, I can't believe you haven't seen any other penguins in the strip!

From time to time he'll do a flashback sequence & yes the other penguins all have smaller beaks than Opus.

I thought you were supposed to be a pro...