![[0068] Valuable Parental Advice](/comics/2009-06-15-[0068]-valuable-parental-advice.png "[0068] Valuable Parental Advice")
The current story arc started with this strip: Addicted.
Since this is the last strip of this storyline, here is the comment of the user Otto at Digg (screenshot) which inspired me to do it. (Of course I asked for his permission before that.) As you can see I have added some additional details like Larisa’s pyromaniac streak, but the following key points of the story were indeed based on true happenings:
- Otto’s sister got suspended from the school because she was talking insulin.
- The school authorities completely failed to grasp the concept that insulin is medicine, not a dangerous drug.
- The counselor of the school stood against his own school and threatened to take legal action.
I also feel the need to talk about today’s comic which would have never seen the light of day if Sandra and Woo were a newspaper comic strip. I got the idea for this strip long before the current arc, right after reading the strip Our Public Relation Guy at F@NB0Y$. I’m not a huge fan of F@NBoY$, but I really liked this one and thought about a comic involving drugs which could have been that offensive. It’s my intention that each of the main characters should have one or two negative character traits since it’s dull and unrealistic when your cast only consists of saints. And Sandra’s dad is not the type of person who could resist parodying corny pieces of parental advice if given the chance. So could we please not have lame “Kinda promoting drug use here. Not cool.” comments?
- Richard: Always remember, kids, ducks are bad for you.
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It is a perfectly legitimate concern.
Ducks are filthy creatures.
From the perspective of one who spent his childhood on a poultry farm, which was littered with bird-crap at the best of times… I’d have to say the ducks were the only ones who managed to spread their faeces onto the CEILING of their room (the one they had to be locked away in at night on account of foxes). It got pretty much everywhere. The duck room was covered in crap all over, all the time, and every morning they came out of there covered in it… waddled down to the pond… and came back in the evenings to repeat the process.
That room did get cleaned regularly… but it never did any good.
Comment on the Screenshot:
Mark Twain said, “In the beginning God made idiots. This was for practice. Then He made School Boards.” LOL
Have to admit, what the father’s smoking seems to look a whole lot more like marijuana than it does cigarettes to me. I know I’m probably mistaken, but that just looks like a joint.
Anyhow, good comic here – just found it today, and I’ve been reading from the beginning. Very solid stories and characters thus far. Quite happy I ran into it.
Unsilenced wrote:
You quacked me up with that comment! 😀
Cigarette? I thought he’d be smoking a joint, at least!
@ Unsilenced:
😀
It’s the same problem with oil companies having “scientific advisors” who are paid by the company. Reviews need to be done externally; when they’re done internally they fix nothing unless the advisor is brave enough to risk losing their job.
Don’t do ducks, kids, don’t do ducks.