A spitball during the valedictorian speech? It's not suggested by Mike, but Mike is the person the other kid is going to for the suggestion. I can't speak for Mike's school, but if someone spitballed the valedictorian during their speech at my kids' high school graduation, there would be hell to pay. That's your fellow student who busted their butt for 4 years to get where they are. Michael is the kid who never did his homework, so you have to wonder how in the world he ever managed to graduate. It does make sense he would have no respect for a kid who is effectively his exact opposite.
On the other hand, in 1994, Lynn is a few years away from her infamous 1999 Lunch with Jan Wong interview, where she talks about getting an honorary doctorate and the extreme disrespect she showed for that honor. I get the feeling Lynn does not think highly of graduation ceremonies or or very earnest valedictorian speeches.
She blew off the art school her parents busted their asses paying for because she was 'too smart' to bother learning things. She still believes that 'classroom politics' is why 'too good to be true' types is why other children who of course LIED about working harder than she cared to because it didn't make sense that people even could be interested in things that bored HER is why they got ahead and she got mean, bad and cruel lectures about how she wasn't the specialest little snowflake EVAH!!
Of course she's gonna want to heap abuse on the people who are mean to her by deliberately making her feel bad.
This is the honorary degree I have most wondered about. I kind of get the other ones because Lynn featured things about the universities in her comic strip. It was not just that Lynn flunked out, but that she has been very critical of the education she was receiving and stated that was her motivation to leave.
It's impossible to teach someone convinced that she was born knowing everything she needed to know. The dull-witted remark about how someone shouldn't have been throwing stuff off an overpass in the first place tells us why the dim-bulb has in in her pea brain that "learning things she doesn't want to" = "being told by monsters that she's just this little dummy who simply isn't allowed to have ideas of her own because she isn't allowed to win": she has a damn hard time understanding what's going on around her but at the same time thinks that she's got it all figured out.
Other people can tell it better than I can but Lynn was stupid enough to be candid around a woman who learned cynicism the hard way: being an idealistic kid from Westmount who blundered into the Cultural Revolution. If Jan is going to call Mao's Mausoleum "Peasant Under Glass". imagine what she can do to a cartoonist with delusions of grandeur.
This is why someone came up with the phrase "boomer lens-cap stupidity" to describe people so willfully ignorant and cocksure that they don't, say, take the lens caps off of binoculars.
Oh! I thought that came from Lizzie laughing at John going LENS CAP! in that one strip where John is furiously snapping photos oblivious to the lens cap still being on.
It gets better. She was a total shit to the waitress because the poor woman didn't genuflect to someone most people see as 'Average-Ass Middle-Aged WASP Woman."
She is also conveniently leaving out her own personal history as an employee, which was a long series of jobs where she intentionally would do work to upset her boss. Her longest job was doing medical drawing at McMaster University, where she notoriously decided to do cartoon drawings instead of realistic medical drawings, and one of the professors had to step in and decide that was what she was going to do exclusively instead of being fired.
Watching Michael do an impersonation of an in-growing hair because they edit out all the superfluous crap that he mistakes for good writing tells us why: we're dealing with a dull-witted woman who thinks that being told to do things their way is being cancelled and insulted. She's never going to grow out of being the pea-brained terror who only wanted to do things she was interested in and wanted a pat on the head for being a disruptive and lazy annoyance.
A spitball during the valedictorian speech? It's not suggested by Mike, but Mike is the person the other kid is going to for the suggestion. I can't speak for Mike's school, but if someone spitballed the valedictorian during their speech at my kids' high school graduation, there would be hell to pay. That's your fellow student who busted their butt for 4 years to get where they are. Michael is the kid who never did his homework, so you have to wonder how in the world he ever managed to graduate. It does make sense he would have no respect for a kid who is effectively his exact opposite.
On the other hand, in 1994, Lynn is a few years away from her infamous 1999 Lunch with Jan Wong interview, where she talks about getting an honorary doctorate and the extreme disrespect she showed for that honor. I get the feeling Lynn does not think highly of graduation ceremonies or or very earnest valedictorian speeches.
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She blew off the art school her parents busted their asses paying for because she was 'too smart' to bother learning things. She still believes that 'classroom politics' is why 'too good to be true' types is why other children who of course LIED about working harder than she cared to because it didn't make sense that people even could be interested in things that bored HER is why they got ahead and she got mean, bad and cruel lectures about how she wasn't the specialest little snowflake EVAH!!
Of course she's gonna want to heap abuse on the people who are mean to her by deliberately making her feel bad.
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She blew off the art school her parents busted their asses paying for because she was 'too smart' to bother learning things.
She was so critical of the Vancouver School of Art and their poor education it was amazing they brought her in for an honorary degree.
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An undeserved honor, for sure. Where is the honorary degree from the art school I flunked out of?!?!? 😜
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This is the honorary degree I have most wondered about. I kind of get the other ones because Lynn featured things about the universities in her comic strip. It was not just that Lynn flunked out, but that she has been very critical of the education she was receiving and stated that was her motivation to leave.
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It's impossible to teach someone convinced that she was born knowing everything she needed to know. The dull-witted remark about how someone shouldn't have been throwing stuff off an overpass in the first place tells us why the dim-bulb has in in her pea brain that "learning things she doesn't want to" = "being told by monsters that she's just this little dummy who simply isn't allowed to have ideas of her own because she isn't allowed to win": she has a damn hard time understanding what's going on around her but at the same time thinks that she's got it all figured out.
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She disrespected it? Do tell, hadn't heard this one!
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Other people can tell it better than I can but Lynn was stupid enough to be candid around a woman who learned cynicism the hard way: being an idealistic kid from Westmount who blundered into the Cultural Revolution. If Jan is going to call Mao's Mausoleum "Peasant Under Glass". imagine what she can do to a cartoonist with delusions of grandeur.
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The big goof has no bloody idea that people greased the wheels for her, does she?
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As a Boomer, she believes every good thing that came to her came to her out of her own "work ethic".
The same one that had her refuse to do basic research or learn perspective.
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This is why someone came up with the phrase "boomer lens-cap stupidity" to describe people so willfully ignorant and cocksure that they don't, say, take the lens caps off of binoculars.
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Oh! I thought that came from Lizzie laughing at John going LENS CAP! in that one strip where John is furiously snapping photos oblivious to the lens cap still being on.
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It gets better. She was a total shit to the waitress because the poor woman didn't genuflect to someone most people see as 'Average-Ass Middle-Aged WASP Woman."
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She is also conveniently leaving out her own personal history as an employee, which was a long series of jobs where she intentionally would do work to upset her boss. Her longest job was doing medical drawing at McMaster University, where she notoriously decided to do cartoon drawings instead of realistic medical drawings, and one of the professors had to step in and decide that was what she was going to do exclusively instead of being fired.
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Watching Michael do an impersonation of an in-growing hair because they edit out all the superfluous crap that he mistakes for good writing tells us why: we're dealing with a dull-witted woman who thinks that being told to do things their way is being cancelled and insulted. She's never going to grow out of being the pea-brained terror who only wanted to do things she was interested in and wanted a pat on the head for being a disruptive and lazy annoyance.
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