# Lio comic 22 Feb **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [February 22, 2009, 3:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lio-comic-22-feb/486946 "2009-02-22T15:53:05Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2009, 3:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lio-comic-22-feb/486946/1 "2009-02-22T15:53:05Z")
I don’t [get](http://www.uclick.com/client/cht/lio/) it… ---
**Author:** ![Ian\_D.Bergkamp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/5f8ce5/32.png) [@Ian\_D.Bergkamp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ian_D.Bergkamp)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2009, 4:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lio-comic-22-feb/486946/2 "2009-02-22T16:00:43Z")
The first three are actual animals. The last is a [candy](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swedish_fish). Not particularly funny, IMO, but there you go. ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2009, 4:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lio-comic-22-feb/486946/3 "2009-02-22T16:17:43Z")
Thanks! That’s the lamest cartoon I’ve ever seen…🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Jenaroph](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e8c25b/32.png) [@Jenaroph](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jenaroph)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2009, 5:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lio-comic-22-feb/486946/4 "2009-02-22T17:31:34Z")
> [@carnivorousplant](#): > > That’s the lamest cartoon I’ve ever seen…🙂 I envy somebody who’s never heard of Family Circus. ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2009, 6:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lio-comic-22-feb/486946/5 "2009-02-22T18:09:08Z")
> [@Jenaroph](#): > > I envy somebody who’s never heard of Family Circus. “Of the comic strips that I read, that is the most lame cartoon.” 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Jihi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jihi/32/17768_2.png) [@Jihi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jihi)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2009, 7:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lio-comic-22-feb/486946/6 "2009-02-22T19:30:21Z")
It should probably be noted that today’s comic isn’t typical of Lio. [This](http://www.uclick.com/client/cht/lio/2009/02/20/) is more typical of the strip. I’ve been reading it in my local paper for a few months now and I like it. I have to admit it isn’t usually funny, it’s more “quirky”. I don’t know, it works for me. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2009, 7:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lio-comic-22-feb/486946/7 "2009-02-22T19:49:11Z")
I rather liked the one where he is standing in a ruined school room. You can see through the fallen wall that the entire city has been devastated. A teacher if frowning at him, and he is writing on the remains of a blackboard, “I will not play with fissionable materials in school. I will not play with…” 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2009, 10:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lio-comic-22-feb/486946/8 "2009-02-22T22:43:25Z")
One of the first ones I laughed out loud at showed him holding a trombone, and dialing a phone. Then he placed the receiver on the table and blew the trombone at it. Final panel shows a 1950’s version of Lucy van Pelt holding a phone out to a 1950’s version of Charlie Brown, saying, “It’s for you. It’s your teacher.”