Coming Soon đ At the beginning of April, youâll be
introduced to a brand-new GoComics! See more information here. Subscribers, check your
email for more details.
Frazz by Jef Mallett for November 26, 2015
Transcript:
Mr. Burke: How did your turkey trot go? Miss Plainwell: I always forget positioning is key. Mr. Burke: I thought you were using it for training. Miss Plainwell: You just can't wander into the anticipating-overeating corral and expect to have room for a Thursday-tempo-run pace.
Bilan about 9 years ago
Miss Plainwell has been hanging around Frazz too long.
yes...always Premium Member about 9 years ago
Iâm pretty sure she was a runner before she met Frazz.
Varnes about 9 years ago
What exactly did she say?âŠâŠ.Sounds like gibberish to meâŠ.
leons1701 about 9 years ago
She didnât pick her starting spot well and got crowded in by all the people who are getting their one run a year as preparation for overstuffing themselves with turkey and stuffing. So she couldnât run as fast as she wanted too.
The area where the runners gather for the start is sometimes referred to as a corral.
seismic-2 Premium Member about 9 years ago
I, for one, would be thankful if this strip were to devote nearly as much effort to being funny as it does to being smug and sanctimonious. Maybe next year. (Yeah, right.)
toahero about 9 years ago
When I was in eighth grade, my dad and I decided to run a turkey trot near my grandparentâs place. The race had two distances, 2.5 and 7.5, both starting at the same time. During the start of the race, I wasnât paying close attention to where the paths diverged.Suffice to say that I set a new personal distance record that day.
pumaman about 9 years ago
Sheâs actually admitting she was a dummy because she should have known better and messed up. She doesnât mind the non-racers. The more the merrier. The only ones in the turkey trot who are really irritating are those who are slow but line up near the front, making hundreds of faster runners behind them go around them in the first mile.
dv-chris about 9 years ago
Agreeing with BigPuma et-al on this one.
For me to understand this strip, I had to pierce through multiple cultural âlayersâ.
The first cultural layer is as a non-US resident I didnât know what a turkey trot is â and the assumed understanding that it involves a large amount of people running some sort of marathon. I could infer it, but thatâs not the point.
The second cultural layer is the one a few people have already alluded to â that of the superior runner being inconvenienced by slower runners. This is a runnerâs in-joke.
A possible third cultural layer which wasnât an issue for me as a Westerner aware of American culture is whether you understand the unspoken reference to Thanksgiving.
With so many layers acting to filter out the unwanted readers did the number of people remaining to actually get the joke became too small for it to be worth making it?
ChuckberryNOnothim Premium Member about 9 years ago
I do not understand how anyone would want to change any comic strip to meet their own personal criteria. This strip makes me think and is funny. Interpretation should be Caldwellâs middle name..
peabodyboy about 9 years ago
Thanks for the explanations.I thought the turkey trot was the northern version of Montezumaâs revenge.
dv-chris about 9 years ago
Agree! As someone who finds almost everything interesting, search engines are a dangerous drain on my productivity!Perhaps I should go cold turkey :)
childe_of_pan over 7 years ago
âWhy bother making people chuckle when you can show them how smart and superior you are?â Seems to me (and anyone not determined to prove how superior they are) that most of the people reading this strip find it humorous. I donât read Pastis, for example, because it often comes across as overly snide to me, so I avoid it. But thatâs just my opinion; it would be a waste of my time to read it daily just so I can tell people why they shouldnât like it.