There’s actually a personal story behind the line “I am not a robot duplicate of Slick.”
Several months ago, my daughter was at day care and a lady from the Butterfly Pavilion came by to show the kids some bugs, and she also brought a tarantula (named Rosie if you can believe that). When I picked up my daughter, she was very excited and told me she got to hold Rosie. When I got the full story, I absolutely forbade her to tell her mother (who hates spiders with a passion). She promised she wouldn’t tell. When we got home, the very first thing she did was to walk up to her mother and say “I didn’t hold anything today.”
Same basic idea as this comic strip.
