Comic #2760: 2012-12-07

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Panel 1: Boy 1: Hey Bobby, your old man making you work this weekend?
Bobby: No, I’m painting the fence. It’s so much fun.

Panel 2: Boy 2: Nice try. I’ve read the adventures of Tom Sawyer, and reverse psychology won’t work on me.
Boy 1: Perhaps. But it has worked on the last four boys. That leaves you two choices: attempt to convince them they’ve all agreed to something stupid, or… join them.

Panel 3: Boy 1: The first option will require great work and probably will result in your ostracization. The second option will require far less effort and will increase your status in the group.

Panel 4: Boy 2: Your brain is no use against the system, Jonny. Smarts might make you a big fish here, Jonny, but economics is what filled the lake.
Boy 1: Go ahead, Jonny. Try to go outside the water. See how well you breathe.

Panel 5: Text: Several hours later…
Boy 3: Well pals, the fence is done. What a good time.
Boy 4: Yeah, Bobby was right.
Girl: Wait… did anyone else get a speech about being a fish in a lake?

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