Useless things to do



It all started with a masterplan. One day in a little shoppe in Johannesburg, South Africa, my sister found an uncannily funny collection of cartoons by a man called Robert Thompson. The title: Pointless Things to Do. I then wished I could write like that. So I tried.

After drafting several sketches I proposed the idea to the new school paper, the Cougar Link. They accepted, and so the first edition of Useless Things to Do went into print. Since I wanted to measure public opinion independently, I used a pseudonym: Tsekub.

The first semester went by, and four Useless strips got published. Popular response was not massive. I didn't expect it to be; however it was, to be quite frank, almost nonexistent. The last strip was edited for content, and you'll see why. This didn't make me very happy. The next semester, senioritis found its way into my bloodstream, and the strip gradually retreated to the back of my head.

In memoriam of those wonderful times of creativity, here are the four full, non-censored versions of the one and only, Useless Things to Do by Tsekub and Robert Thompson.


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