I don't know if it's

a lot of

you know what

do you all get highlights magazine when you were a kid

I don't know if it was a magazine or it was more like a

pamphlet. That's kind of the way I remember it. But it came out maybe every week and

they would give it to us at school. I think third grade, fourth grade, they would

give us our copies of highlights and we'd take it home with our little packet that we had to show our parents.

And I liked it. It was cool getting highlights magazine. I don't remember what the articles were or what I learned from it. The only thing I remember is that there was a very

simplistic comic strip that was in every single one called

Goofis and Gallant. It was a two-panel strip and on the left side you would see Goofis

in a given situation and he would always botch it.

He was a jerk, he was a sociopath.

Surely that kid is ticketed for maximum security prison.

He's just awful.

But then on the second panel you would see his brother Gallant in the exact same social

situation doing the thing that was right and self-effacing and wise. And so on the one end it's kind of an interesting format because

it's sort of like the structure of Proverbs in the Bible. So I guess that's good.

I like the Bible.

I like proverbs and the fool acts thusly, the wise person acts in this other way.

It's a great contrast.

Also, they may maybe at times these comics were a little bit heavy-handed in terms of the absurdity of

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