Phoebe and Her Unicorn by Dana Simpson for August 13, 2024

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    Averagemoe  about 2 months ago

    That’s the first step. Next, you must tell yourself why you’re wrong.

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    sirbadger  about 2 months ago

    There is a Bob Newhart sketch where he keeps saying “Stop It” to a psychiatric patient.

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    iggyman  about 2 months ago

    Aw, that’s sweet!

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    mccollunsky  about 2 months ago

    Marigold is a good friend.

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    eddi-TBH  about 2 months ago

    Don’t pick on yourself Phoebe, that’s Dakota’s job.

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    eddi-TBH  about 2 months ago

    That’s definitely a foreign concept to Marigold.

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    LeslieBark  about 2 months ago

    When I was about Phoebe’s age, I spent summers with my favorite aunt after my mom went back to work. Whenever I would echo my mom’s criticisms of me (I was lazy, selfish, careless, etc.), she would sternly tell me “Don’t talk like that about someone I love!” That did wonderful things for my self-esteem. And I paid it forward by saying the same thing to my niece whenever she would echo her mom.

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    Calvinist1966  about 2 months ago

    There was an episode of “The Wonderful World of Disney” entitled “Man Is His Own Worse Enemy” which showed some classic cartoons of characters – human or humanised animals – defeating themselves. The cartoons included the 1943 cartoon Chicken Little in which Chicken Little, Turkey Lurkey and other birds ended up “sheltering from the falling sky” in a fox’s den and being eaten by the fox. They were greater enemies to themselves than the fox was.

    In his 1989 autobiography Chuck Amuck, the animator Chuck Jones makes a similar point. “Who is the Coyote’s enemy? The Coyote. Not the Roadrunner who has never harmed him nor even antagonised him beyond startling him with the occasional Beep! Beep!”

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    The Reader Premium Member about 2 months ago

    Well said!

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    Decepticomic  about 2 months ago

    Start thinking positive thoughts about yourself before I lose control and KILL YOU!!!

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    DaBump Premium Member about 2 months ago

    It doesn’t work by yourself, or the people you grew up with, but when a new Special Friend says it, it finally sinks in that you’re not so bad as you think you are.

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    Frer Squirrel  about 2 months ago

    Being one’s own worst enemy more often describes actions than thoughts, such as drinking and driving, or staying up too late, or borrowing, or talking too much.

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    sjsczurek  about 2 months ago

    Especially like panel 4!

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    Aladar30 Premium Member about 2 months ago

    Go Marigold!

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