Again with the spiderwebs

Today's strip is making me cranky because, yet again, I have problems placing the blame for the situation with Yorick (whose name made a lot more sense the last time we saw him--Yorick -> Shakespeare -> language). It's another case of a parent clearly not taking on the responsibility he should, and having it come back and bite him in the butt. If Yorick feels that he can ask for money the day after he got (and spent) his allowance, then it means that this has probably worked for him before. Hey, Yorick's Dad? Here's a solution: Don't give him any money. I know, I'm all with the crazy talk. Teach your child some fiscal responsibility? Perish the thought! Sure, he'll whine--probably because you give him money whenever he asks. Tough. He needs to learn sometime.

I can guess why it's taking Yorick so long to rake the yard; he looks older than his dad. And really, unless there's some pressing need for the yard to be all pretty, I can't get on his case too much if it's only been two days. Unless, of course, he's only worked on that tiny patch of the yard. Not that I'm entirely sure what he's raking; the yard looks fine to me.

Also, nice slang. I wonder if Yorick were a good kid who did his chores and didn't blow through his allowance, would that mean that he talked more normally?

And Mom, stop rolling your eyes in the background. I doubt you're helping the situation any.

When Al meets Lynn

Apologies for not updating earlier this week. But it's not like those strips weren't anything we'd seen before, right? I'm fairly confident I've discussed those previously, even though I couldn't find the actual strips in the archives.

Anyway, holy crap. Today's strip is just a rehash of Sunday's For Better or For Worse. I actually love it when this happens in the comics, because comics are written so far in advance and it's just kind of crazy to see that two writers planned the same idea for the same time. Obviously this is a few days off, but I'm ignoring that.

I'm impressed that Yorick gets five hours of grammar a week in school. I wonder what grade he's in. We certainly covered grammar when I was a kid, but I don't think I ever consistently had an hour of grammar a day. And honestly, if he gets that much grammar in school, then hopefully he's learning it correctly. A person doesn't always have to speak or write with perfect grammar--I'm aware than I ended the second sentence of this paragraph with a preposition, but it's not about to keep me up at night. As long as Yorick can come off sounding reasonably intelligent most the time, and can write decently, I'm not going to fret over some oddly phrased song lyrics. I'm not even going to get into the spellings--he's just listening to the lyrics, Al; odd spellings can't affect him.

And let's look at the lyrics: "Yo, baby/Who don't love you/I can't getcha off of my brain/No how/You're my favorite chick." Well, yeah. That doesn't make too much sense. But really, most lyrics don't. I have a book that's about how the Beatles wrote their songs, and a bunch of them are just like, "I liked the melody and threw in some words." So...yeah.