Growing up, I used to like the single-panel comic strip The Family Circus.
I know, I know, I really don't have any good explanation. Maybe it was better in the early 1980s or (more likely) maybe I was less discernible at a young age and hadn't realized that Keane was repeating the same half dozen jokes over and over again.*
At any rate, I share my shame with you today because today's gag--which appears in this month's New Era--reminds me a great deal of a Family Circus gag. Had I placed it in a circle and given the child an abnormally large head, you might not even know the difference.
*Those six jokes include 1) the "Not Me" ghost, 2) Billy getting distracted and taking a convoluted path to complete a simple task (these were my favorite), 3) kids say the darndest things (of which category today's gag falls into), 4) angel Grandpa keeps an eye on his brood, 5) Billy fills in for Dad and makes a lot of puns, and 6) come to think of it, maybe he only had five jokes.
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