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Punch, Bull?

The action moves to a post-game New Year’s party, and Bull, still reeling from the She-Goats’ loss to Blue Valley, unwisely decides to unburden himself to Jim the Science Guy. Jim responds by misquoting Edwin Teller (“Sooner or later a fool will prove greater than the proof even in a foolproof system”) before proceeding to mix up “infer” and “imply”.

Khyber Bully

I don’t know a lot about basketball, and I don’t know anything about the Kyber Rifles (or what they have to do with basketball). I guess what happened tonight was Bull delivered a fiery speech before the game, and the girls came out a little too aggressive. It’s always Bull’s fault.

Mean Girls

Wow! The Blue Valley girls add insult to injury following a comfortable win over Westview. I guess if TB can’t make the She-Goats likeable and sympathetic, he can at least portray their opponents as hateful, unsportswomanlike bitches!

Communication Breakdown

Charlene
December 26, 2011 at 1:42 am
Cayla…is not actually a Cassandra; she’s simply predicting doom and gloom without any sense of either having said anything worthwhile or being ignored. In other words, she’s a typical Funky Winkerbean character.

sourbelly
December 26, 2011 at 3:01 am
Cayla…seems to have suddenly, and for no discernible reason, become a Nattering Nabob of Negativity for no particular reason.

Charles
December 26, 2011 at 4:37 am
Obviously, Batiuk needs to make Cayla as much of a negative ass as he can so she fits in with the rest of the cast. Sheesh…Can you imagine being a high school athlete, and not simply that, but a good high school athlete, with a Mom like that?

We’ve seen the She-Goats stink up the joint before. But the weird thing about the season just underway is Cayla’s sudden lack of confidence in her daughter’s team. “High expectations goeth before an upset.” “The customer is always wrong.” Covering her eyes when Kei$ha makes a free throw. Look at her lack of expression as she bemoans their lack of teamwork. What the hell has gotten into her?

Predictable

I don’t even know where to start with today’s strip. What makes “everyone” so certain that tonight’s game is Westview’s for the taking, especially with the She-Goats coming off a loss? Is the other team even lousier? And Cayla’s newly acquired defeatist attitude persists: “The customer is always wrong.” Th’ hell? No, the customer is always right. Anyway, how does that even follow what Les just said? And what percentage of faithful FW readers are gonna get the reference to mythical Cassandra, who was granted the gift of prophecy by the god Apollo? Les should have gone with “Meet my fiancee, the Amazing fucking Kreskin.”