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Sunday Comic

Robyn Jordan
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1
Yeah, one of my campmates at Burning Man '98, while topless, was taken aback when a youngster approached her thus:

"Miss... Miss Minniken?"
Eric Arrr on December 29, 2013 at 2:44 PM Report this
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@1, at least they met in the Burniverse, where chances are the kid's parents were also creatively (un)clad, and the real-world fallout likely nil.

Beats Mark Zmuda's situation all to hell.
rob! on December 29, 2013 at 3:19 PM Report this
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@1

"No, you must be a friend of my twin sister."
seatackled on December 29, 2013 at 3:19 PM Report this
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I ran into an old student at the pub a few months ago and it was terrible, I was drunk and it was awkward. Wish I could get a redo, since she was a cool kid and I'm genuinely interested in catching up with her.
Rotten666 on December 29, 2013 at 3:33 PM Report this
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My father always shopped in the next town over, so he wouldn't run into students when he was running errands.
TVDinner on December 29, 2013 at 3:38 PM Report this
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Has anybody else run into their psychiatrist on the street? I'll share me feelings if you share yours.
dnt trust me on December 29, 2013 at 4:23 PM Report this
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Folsom Street Fair, I'm shirtless, wearing some sort of harness, walking with some friends. Guy runs up behind us, "Professor, professor!" Friends scatter. Seems I taught him college algebra 15 years before. He's with a man and woman, all in full civilian clothes, all elementary school teachers. We have an awkward catch-up conversation ignoring my attire and the sound of flogging around us. Afterwards, I find my friends by following the cackling.
Brashion on December 29, 2013 at 5:46 PM Report this
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The only reason my mom didn't want a nude beach in our town was the possibility of sharing it with her students.
I have met them all over the world, including at the South Pole.
BakerB on December 29, 2013 at 5:49 PM Report this
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This is nothing compared to the awkwardness of being a therapist and running into clients.
Jude Fawley on December 29, 2013 at 8:24 PM Report this
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Awkwardness describes it well Jude. I'd also add a feeling of hyperreality.
dnt trust me on December 29, 2013 at 9:18 PM Report this
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Maybe you should choose a word other than "comic" for this feature. So far, they've all been just illustrations of the banal everyday occurrences of life. Sort of like "Family Circus", with less artistic talent.
Catalina Vel-DuRay on December 29, 2013 at 9:22 PM Report this
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@11 I'm with you. Your Family Circus comparison is wholly accurate.
cracked on December 29, 2013 at 11:51 PM Report this
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Made brief/awkward eye contact with one of my high-school English teachers while we were both cruising the booths in an adult video arcade back in the 80s, a year or two after I'd graduated.

Absolutely did not have a conversation.
this guy I know in Spokane on December 29, 2013 at 11:53 PM Report this
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P.S. @11/12, y'all know about this, right? http://www.theotherfamily.com/
this guy I know in Spokane on December 29, 2013 at 11:55 PM Report this
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@14 Thanks. Those are really funny. The banality of Robyn Jordan's comic would be well served by this form of polishing.
cracked on December 30, 2013 at 3:11 AM Report this
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I had really bad cramps as a teenager and had to go tio the Gino when I was 13. I was a late bloomers,
I don't think I had even been felt up at that point. It was an excruciating exam. First he asked me three times if I thought I might be pregnant. I told him I was a virgin and he gave me a pregnancy test anyway! Then, the actual looking-at-my-vagina part.. And that's literally all he did. Just look at it.
But guess who I saw at the football gameon Friday night??? His son was in the band.
on December 30, 2013 at 4:02 AM Report this
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Why is the teacher embarrassed?
fletc3her on December 30, 2013 at 9:38 AM Report this
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@11: One could argue that Family Circus actually tries to have a punchline. I'm never sure what I'm supposed to be getting from these series of drawings.
treehugger on December 30, 2013 at 9:56 AM Report this
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Probably body issues or the fact that she's with another woman or both, @17.
rob! on December 30, 2013 at 9:56 AM Report this
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@19 I'm starting to get worried her relationship with the boy isn't all that wholesome.
fletc3her on December 30, 2013 at 11:20 AM Report this
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i'm with @17. she's at the beach in a bathing suit. if she was at the topless beach i'd get it.
Max Solomon on December 30, 2013 at 12:04 PM Report this
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If you're past college age and in a profession or with an employer where being openly gay still has the potential to turn your life upside down*, suddenly running into someone you know while in the company of a same-sex partner they've never seen before sends your brain into overdrive and can make you stutter or blush. It's something that makes you think about radically changing your own life so that the threat, however abstract, is no longer there.

*Mark Zmuda
rob! on December 30, 2013 at 12:21 PM Report this
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It's also awkward being seen by small children you teach with few clothes on. Many people have body image issues already, and teachers are supposed to be the straightest edges of all these days, where they can get fired for someone stealing pictures of them in compromising settings. Being seen by a young student in a bikini top I imagine would be awkward.
Hanoumatoi on December 30, 2013 at 1:39 PM Report this
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@22: i see no cartoon evidence that ms. j is with a same-sex partner. this is what female friends going to a beach also look like.
Max Solomon on December 30, 2013 at 3:57 PM Report this

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