Again, for whatever reason, I get a kick out of stories involving hyper-intelligent children. Maybe it’s the “Calvin and Hobbes” influence or the fact that I’ve read too many Orson Scott Card books. Maybe it’s more than that, and it’s some residual annoyance with the adults that patronized me when I was a kid. Maybe it’s less than that, and it’s just an easy device for setting up jokes. Maybe it’s too late at night and I should really be asleep instead of trying to figure out how my brain works.
Whatever the reason, here’s a strip about an overly-smart kid and his trained puppy. Or puppied train, perhaps. Hope you enjoy it!
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You got me with the “trained puppy”. That’s why it needs to be late at night.
Here it was the puppied train. I want a puppied train. And I liked the ranit in the comic.
Maybe it’s actually a gravy train meant to lure puppies.
An interesting train of thought, no?
This comic’s not that far off from truth for me. One of my earliest memories (around age four or so) is explaining to my stuffed animals that they were only toys and had to stop acting real. As I recall, they were pretty upset about it. The teddy bear cried and I couldn’t look my popple in the eye for a week.
Sounds like you’d like Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality
I don’t want to DE-RAIL this topic but maybe MooseDrool is on the right TRACK.
it choo-choo-chewed my shoes.
Orson Scott Card eh? Yeah, how would Ender handle the situation?
Probably beat the first girl to death with the second girl’s train. Then shove the first girl’s teddy bear (or is that a cat?) down the second girl’s throat. Turn the baby doll in the stroller around so it’s facing the correct way, and then stroll off with it into the sunset.