Lay Lines by Carol Lay for March 25, 2024

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    Ida No  6 months ago

    Love the scrotum she’s wagging in the last panel.

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    nancyb creator 6 months ago

    I always wonder if the people who object to words on the first page of a book read the rest of it.

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    AM730  6 months ago

    Of course, after the book censoring, the number of boys found in school bathrooms sticking venomous snakes down their pants became so low as to be unreportable.

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    prince valiant Premium Member 6 months ago

    Had to look up the book. I like the plot, the characters (especially their names) and the setting. One book our fifth-graders were required to read was, Holes by Louis Sachar, another controversial read.

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    The Brooklyn Accent Premium Member 6 months ago

    Stranger than fiction. Thanks for telling us the tale, Ms. Lay. (Have any of your works been banned because of your last name appearing on the cover?)

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    GaryCooper  6 months ago

    I don’t think any book banners do that level of research.

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    Gnomon Dee Range  6 months ago

    This book is sure to come up for First Amendment review by SCROTUS.

    … along with the James Brown song, Papa’s Got a Brand New Bag.

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    MagOctopus  6 months ago

    Love the wink to the Colbert Report and ‘The Word’!

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    Radish the wordsmith  6 months ago

    Don’t blow up the earth in the first chapter, Douglas Adams advised.

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    Mike Baldwin creator 6 months ago

    How terribly fragile we are. Just like a scrotum.

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    Aladar30 Premium Member 6 months ago

    Moral of the story. If those who want to ban books informed themselves, they would stop wanting to ban books.

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    pchemcat  6 months ago

    Sadly, it won’t be long before Bradbury’s “Fahrenheit 451” is a reality. Both ends of the spectrum want to ban speech that they deem offensive to their side.

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    puppeterry  6 months ago

    Interesting-looking purse she is carrying.

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    artjohn42  6 months ago

    Scrotum. Scotum. Scrotum. Scrotum. So there. Nyah nyah nyah.

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    artjohn42  6 months ago

    Mama’s got a brand new bag. It used to be Papa’s.

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    AndromedaMike  6 months ago

    Strangely, the only censorship I experienced was my mom breaking my record of Steppenwolf’s The Pusher Man because of the GDs. We read books about book burnings but never experienced them.

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