Hank has some definite opinions about Plato:

"How can you describe a guy who shows up at the very exact moment when your fondesh wist is never to see him again? Fondest wish, I should say....

Always grinning. Always the perfect gentleman. So kind and friendly it makes you ill, but what really makes you ill is that you want so badly to beat him up.

But who can beat up a guy who's always nice? That's the problem with Plato. He's too dumb to know how much everybody hates him, and he's too nice to be told in the usual manner -- a thrashing.

So he ends up winning the heart of my girlfriend, and I end up wondering how dumb he can be when he wins all the time. And the more I think about it, the madder I get, and excuse me for a moment while I bang my head against this tree over here.

BONK! BONK! BONK!"

 

From Hank the Cowdog #26: The Case of the Kidnapped Collie
Illustration by Gerald Holmes from #26: The Case of the Kidnapped Collie.

(Copyright © John R. Erickson)

 

 

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