Frazz by Jef Mallett for November 28, 2016

Someone’s being a party pooper.

Temporary?

Compulsory Unintended Rest Day.…puns are meant to be cheesy, right? ;-)

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I’m with Davis…..?

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My first exposure to the word “nerd” was verbal, so I was left on my own to try and guess how it was spelled. I guessed wrong, and to this day I still think it would be a more effective word spelled “nurd.” If you think that’s dumb (and if you’re fine with judging a 4th-grader that harshly, you heartless scoundrel), my friend Curt saw what I was doing and reassured me as only a 4th-grade boy can: “Yeah, that makes sense. Like ‘turd’.” This was another news bulletin, as I thought that was spelled “tyrd,” which is even stranger than Nurd with a U when you consider the word is as often as not joined up with “bird” and its own workable vowel. Why didn’t I assume it was spelled “tird”? I may have been thinking of the Polar explorer Adm. Richard Byrd, who I knew about, but definitely not the band The Byrds, which I didn’t. And now you have a better idea of what I was like as a 4th-grader and possibly why I grew up without a whole lot of career options besides the comics.We’ll note that neo-geezer Jef logs unplanned rest days (actually, they’re all unplanned; I haven’t scheduled one in years, as life keeps me amply, if arbitrarily, supplied) as GURDS, but this is the comics, and a little bit of scatology is just right. Add in blasphemy and it all falls apart. It’s the truth. You have my wurd."

awesome explanation, but I came to the comments hoping someone would explain the principal’s reaction in the 3rd panel.

Tedious?

A time out, everyone needs even Frazz.

“Too-bad.”

Isn’t “terrible” a pretty good synonym for “no-good”? Or has The Donald ruined it for the rest of us the way he has “sad”?

That’s a real dumper!!

I dont get it. What is the Principal trying to time out against?

What you don’t want in your punchbowl.

Totally

AHcronym, Jef! It’s not oonreasonable to ask Stephan Pastis for help when trying the Pun Limbo dance.