"Marian comes over at 4 p.m. on Monday's to practice archery, Jenna comes over at 4 p.m. on Tuesdays to practice photography, Brenda comes over at 4 p.m. on Wednesdays to practice parkour, Rita comes over at 4 p.m. on Thursdays to practice Latin, Mia comes over at 4 p.m. on Fridays to practice Thai cuisine, Martha comes over at 4 p.m. on Saturdays to practice root vegetable gardening, and Frank comes over on Sundays at 4 p.m. to practice maps. I inspire students all week long."
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It would seem that the Professor has an acute case of adult ADHD. Could this be why he's merely an adjunct at the world renowned university?
Dawn had better practice her own parkour skills and get the heck of there quickly or she might just find out that life is brutal.
I mentioned parkour a couple of weeks ago because I thought it was the most outlandish hobby Harlan might take up. Guess not. And what the heck is in those bowls? Clam chowder? Oatmeal? Something unspeakably gross? Dawn also seems to have a gray eclair and no place to put her sandwich.
Aha! @fauxprof mentioned parkour a couple of weeks ago, and it pops up in today's strip - KM really is stalking us on this blog.
Harlan forgot to include "food inhaling" in his list. How else did the sandwich that was on his tray yesterday disappear? Inhaling that sandwich may explain his crazed look in p. 2.
Yesterday Dawn's tray had an oval sandwich on it. Today, there's of bowl of kelk soup and the sandwich has transmogrified from oval to square in her hands. Oh, the marvels of the worthiverse.
In addition to the continuity hijinks reported by KitHat and carlnepa, I see that Dawn's napkin has crawled back under her utensils. And who gets a Kaiser roll to eat along with a sliced bread sandwich?
Hey Dawn, eating a sandwich with both hands (in public)? Really!
So...Dawn's transmogrifying sandwich was really just a Big Crouton?
Where's the other half of the back of Dawn's chair?
Dawn, please don't talk with your mouth full.
Harlan tells Dawn that she can now call him "Jack" -- someone neither of them knows.
Boy, Harlan's glassy eyed stare in panel two coupled with his vague 'varying degrees of success' dialogue just shouts that he has failed at each and every one of these and quickly moved on to the next endeavor.
So, when I read Dawn's response, it actually made me laugh out loud to think that she is well aware that these were all failed pursuits but she can't even imagine mustering the gumption to attempt doing anything at all...
Parkour? Really? https://www.google.com/search?q=parkour+images&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjuyI30mJvMAhVLKh4KHYpwB-cQsAQIHA&biw=1311&bih=887
This panel could be the inspiration to a question on a multiple choice test:
Which of the following hobbies is a part time college professor least likely to engage in?
A) Archery
B Photography
C) Parkour
D) Thai Cuisine
E) Vegetable Gardening
F) Cartography
G) Yoga
All that and he hasn't yet gotten to underwater basket weaving?
H) All of the Above
"Parkour...reminds me of Dave"
Parkour (Uncle Joe): drawing quickly, his characters displaying any number of fingers or even hands. This is a man who fearlessly jumps from strip to strip without concern for continuity of clothes, facial features, background details, colors, or era. What's an extra finger or two, right Joe?
Parkour (Karen Moy): creating (word used loosely) three unbearably boring plots per year as opposed to the previous writer (can't remember the name) who came up with only one new plot every 18 months!
Harlan, I've worked with college professors, I've known college professors. College professors were friends of mine. Harlan, you're no college professor.
Harlan continues, “I'm also thinking about trying newspaper comic authoring, or whatever you call it. How hard could it be to think of interesting plots with intelligent and witty dialogue?”
Where's engineering, math, science? Too much right brain for anything good to come of this....
Anon @ 5:31, you made me laugh out loud
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