Seagull's Shrink

It's July which means it is time for pioneer-themed gags.* The single-panel gag of a psychiatrist with a patient on a couch is one of the great cliches of cartooning. (Open any issue of the New Yorker and you've got better than even odds of finding one.) This is only the second time I've dipped into this particular well, but I'm sure it won't be the last.

*While the story of the seagulls and the crickets doesn't take place on the pioneer trail, it does happen smack dab in the middle of the migration West justifying its July inclusion in my mind.

Only in Utah

Only in Utah could Flock of Seagulls best Buddy Holly in a battle of the bands.

Errata

In the publishing world, I believe they're called errata. They're the mistakes that inevitably show up in the printed word. And, sure enough, I've found a couple in The Puzzle Book for LDS Kids. For those of you who have already purchased your copy(ies), please print out the this blog entry and carefully glue it into the front of your book. For those of you who haven't purchased the book, you might want to hurry and do so. (After we get these all fixed for the inevitable second printing, this edition will be as valuable as a rare first edition Mormon Doctrine.)

Errata
The Puzzle Book for LDS Kids

Pages 38, 77, and 83 - Signature partially cut off.

Pages 18 and 32 - Sentences end in a preposition.

Page 74 and cover - Peter, James, and John likely were fishing with nets not poles.

Page 83 - There is no documented record of Brigham Young presenting a key to the city to a flock of seagulls for saving Mormon crops from crickets; however, Salt Lake City Mayor Ted Wilson partially rectified this egregious oversight when he presented a key to the city to the syntha-pop band Flock of Seagulls in 1982.

Page 30 - The frogs drawn in a picture representing Moses and the plague of frogs upon Egypt are clearly Adenomera araucaria, which--as everyone knows--are indigenous to South America.

Page 9 - The Elders are teaching a single, elderly sister despite the fact that there are Sister missionaries in their zone that could be teaching her.

Pages 3 through 91 - Human beings typically have five fingers on their hands not four.