Frazz by Jef Mallett for October 14, 2015

Interpretive semantics. All the best politicians, lawyers and professional ne’er-do-wells become expert in it. Trouble is, so do clerics and others of good will. Perhaps we ALL do it. And maybe that’s our problem.

comicsssfan, do you want us to call protective services?

That dog’ll bite you !

I’ve noticed that many women pop their chewing gum. It’s very annoying. Don’t see it with men.

Or the previous one.

As a kid you never want to tell the janitor the teacher gave you permission to chew gum. Though some kids would save the wrapper for disposal, not all will. Nor would most adults for that matter. I give the kid credit for trying to pull one on Frazz, but as an adult, and as a janitor, he knows better.

Sure, kid, if you lick your balls in front of the class, you can chew gum any time you want.

You’re right. We don’t still use the Socratic method for no reason. Very effective. Plato always shows him admiringly overcoming others with his semantics and logic. There are a lot of Greek and Roman orators with whom I would not want to cross verbal swords.

We don’t give our dog rawhide. We give him bully sticks. They are much better and safer. Look up what a bully stick is, then tell the kids when you give one to a dog…and watch the face they make.

“The mouth is the filthiest part of the body, true.” ********* Contains more bacteria and enzymes, perhaps, but “filthiest?” Er, um, you might want to rethink that, Gaunt.