[click for readable size]Read the pages to the left. Did you understand them? Could you answer questions about them? Good, I thought you could. That's what we call
reading for comprehension. It's one of the basic components of reading, usually taught to children beginning in kindergarten.
I'm sure none of you have yet to enter kindergarten, so it dismays me to see that there are so many of you who cannot read for comprehension. You skim, you glance, and then you assume where the word are going rather than taking the time to
know where the words, taken as a whole, are headed.
So here's the deal: Either you read the entire post, taking in the words and their meanings, conceptualizing the ideas and understanding the context of those words, or you don't leave a comment.
If I asked about the pictured pages,
What does Sally say she likes?, and you answered,
Sally likes when the puppets make her feel all tingly inside, you would be taken for an idiot.
Perhaps this whole concept of comprehension is just a little too much for you and you should try some sites that tell cute little stories in Comic Sans font with flashing animation to help guide you through the story's concept.
I'll break this down real simple for you: If you don't read the whole thing, don't leave a comment. This prevents my taking you for a raving idiot.
Lesson ended.
Comments
Ooh! Ooh! I know this one!
Sally likes plays.
Okay, I admit it. I cheated and was using a crib sheet. I won't let it happen again.
Posted by: Jim | March 22, 2004 09:04 PM
Puff and Spot made Me all tingly inside.Does that count?I'll hang up and wait for my answer.
Posted by: mbruce | March 22, 2004 09:09 PM
Who's Sally again?
Posted by: Evil Otto | March 22, 2004 09:12 PM
Ummm.....
Uhhh....
Halliburton!!!
Posted by: dave | March 22, 2004 09:18 PM
I never learned to read............
Posted by: Headzero | March 22, 2004 09:25 PM
Puff knew.
Posted by: Britton | March 22, 2004 09:44 PM
you are so strict.
Posted by: Dave in Texas | March 22, 2004 10:10 PM
Sally lied about WMD. Mike wants to build a fence in his neighbor's yard to keep Spot from terrorizing Pam and Penny. And the Jews killed Puff.
Posted by: China Cat | March 22, 2004 10:10 PM
Curses be upon the sons of Miss Piggy, for slaying the puppets unjustly!
Posted by: David Ross | March 22, 2004 10:16 PM
I like glue!
Cat breath smells like cat food!
My nose makes it's own bubblegum!
Posted by: Rob M | March 22, 2004 10:25 PM
Sally says Bush=Hitler!
What? That's wrong? But--- oh.
Posted by: Andrea Harris | March 22, 2004 10:35 PM
Hold on... just gimmee a second. I swear I know this one...
Sally likes when Dick makes her tingly inside?
No wait, that's something else entirely...
Posted by: Sunidesus | March 22, 2004 10:49 PM
I've never met Spot or Puff, and it doesn't matter anyway because they're lying.
Posted by: Mike | March 23, 2004 01:32 AM
Dude, where's the time-out chair?
Posted by: Creatively Evil | March 23, 2004 02:01 AM
Will you people stop questioning Sally's patriotism?
Evil Otto: Sally posted her comment while Dick was writing his. Then Mike posted his comment while Puff posted his. Or something, I got lost;)
Posted by: dorkafork | March 23, 2004 03:22 AM
Well, I hope i wasn't the idiot this time.
Posted by: david | March 23, 2004 04:00 AM
Sally can't wait to grow up and take her top off for Girls Gone Wild.
Posted by: Chrees | March 23, 2004 12:31 PM
Coming this summer: "See Spot Dick Jane"!
Posted by: RMc | March 23, 2004 12:41 PM
Sassy girl!
Posted by: Doug Purdie | March 23, 2004 01:39 PM
Is no one else disturbed by the fact that the boys have killed Spot and Puff and made them into puppets?
Our readers didn't have black kids, but they didn't have animal cruelty either.
Posted by: Angie Schultz | March 23, 2004 07:13 PM
And sometimes you aren't mistaking them for a raving loon; it's obvious.
Posted by: SDN | March 23, 2004 08:17 PM