Frazz by Jef Mallett for December 13, 2016

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    Kev_a_Swing_Dancer Premium Member about 8 years ago

    Colorist problem? In case this is fixed before morning, at 1:20am EST, Frazz has red on his right hand, which is correct for port.If the coloring doesn’t need to be fixed, I don’t know what (or why) the youngster is expressing.

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    catchup  about 8 years ago

    Starboard (green) is the right hand side of a ship/plane/person… So the kid is correct; unless Frazz was running backwards his wrist lights are in the wrong side.

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    nosirrom  about 8 years ago

    How long did Jef Larboard over this one?

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    llennok1  about 8 years ago

    no, red on left green on right . red/port, green/starboard

    short word/short word, longer word/longer word

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    Rhakir  about 8 years ago

    Jef is correct. Port is red, Starboard is green.

    https://www.google.co.uk/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=4&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0ahUKEwjH6ani7_DQAhUrJMAKHcpXB14QFggrMAM&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.eudesign.com%2Fmnems%2Fportstar.htm&usg=AFQjCNGVdyvUW-JGHin_AOiljzT0UqqrMA&sig2=8XSsNfJWmxtnid4yV-3F0Q

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    cabalonrye  about 8 years ago

    You carry green on starboard (right) and red on port (left), he is wearing red on starboard (right) and green on port (left)

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    whiteheron  about 8 years ago

    The kid better stand to the leeward. Frazz’s running clothes and all that.

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    57-Don  about 8 years ago

    Easy to remember – port has 4 letters, left has 4 letters if you just remember that port wine is red everything falls into place

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    Ichabod Ferguson  about 8 years ago

    Easier still; the port light is red just as port wine is red.

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    sandpiper  about 8 years ago

    Then why aren’t auto signal lights red for left and green for right??

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    atajayhawk  about 8 years ago

    I learned, ‘Starboard shines green and port is glowing red,’ from a song in Girl Scouts. To confirm it (years later) after an argument, I asked an American Airlines pilot. His reply: ‘Of course port is red. The pilot is always in the red light district!’

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    Uncle Bob  about 8 years ago

    Red at night, sailor’s delight. Green in the morning, sailor’s been pouring…

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    nossmf  about 8 years ago

    “There’s no red port wine left”

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    tahoeh2o  about 8 years ago

    He doesn’t know his stern from his aft…

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    Fido (aka Felix Rex)  about 8 years ago

    Of course, the next point of discussion should be about POSH (Port Out, Starboard Home)

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    magnus  about 8 years ago

    I always thought hearing aid salesmen were daft because they have the color coding backwards, until I looked at my audiologist’s computer and realized that the color coding is not for the wearer, but for the doctor. I guess they assumed that people who wear hearing aids are not smart enough to know red is port and green is starboard.

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    Richard S Russell Premium Member about 8 years ago

    If 2 ships or 2 planes are approaching each other at night, green is the “go” side, red is the “stop” side. It avoids that little do-si-do that pedestrians sometimes engage in on the sidewalk. Speaking of which, on a trip to London I discovered that they don’t only drive on the left side, they walk there, too.

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    terrym1986  about 8 years ago

    ‘Red Right Returning’ – when you SEE red, you GO right, whether the red is a fixed buoy or another ship. If you see red on a ship, it is moving from your right to your left because you are seeing its left side. You GO right to miss it by going past its stern. As you both approach a common point, it is on your right so it has right of way to go through the common point first.

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    Sportymonk  about 8 years ago

    I am not going out in the water with any of you steering a ship. nobody knows left from right or port or starboard or keel or rudder!!!!

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    Chamfer  about 8 years ago

    The whiskey is on the table, so port must be left.

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    Ncorrigible Premium Member about 8 years ago

    At least one of us here lives on the Mississippi and knows the real rule. Know which direction you went when you left home and where the buoys were, and do it bass-ackwards coming home. Worked for Grandpa in the Armistice Day blizzard, works for me now I do not need to know if Frazz is going north or south, I need to know to miss killing him with my truck.

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    Ncorrigible Premium Member about 8 years ago

    At least one of us here lives on the Mississippi and knows the real rule. Know which direction you went when you left home and where the buoys were, and do it bass-ackwards coming home. Worked for Grandpa in the Armistice Day blizzard, works for me now I do not need to know if Frazz is going north or south, I need to know to miss killing him with my truck.

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    rekam Premium Member about 8 years ago

    well, now there’s no red or green so there’s nothing to complain about.

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    John W Kennedy Premium Member about 8 years ago

    OK, here’s the skinny.

    A long, long time ago, before it was practical to make rudders that pivoted in the center, you steered a boat with a “steerboard” that hung off the aft right, because that’s easier for a right-handed steersman. Because of that, you came up to the dock with it on your left side, so you wouldn’t accidentally smash your steerboard, so the left side became the “port” side.

    Or at least that was the way I was taught.

    I once saw a bumper sticker that simply said, “Starboard wine is green.”

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    Kev_a_Swing_Dancer Premium Member about 8 years ago

    I am ridiculously naïve for not double checking the colors when I haven’t been on an inboard for well over 30 years.

    Late last night (after midnight, and I have rule to never post after midnight), I strongly remembered “right is red”; ..but that’s for RCA audio cables.

    We lived on a lake an my Dad was a major water skier so I was carried on, driving, and avoiding inboard motor boats a good part of my pre-college years. As a kid I knew that the long words are all on the right.The first way I remembered which side was which was with the idea that port and left had the same number of letters.

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    hippogriff  about 8 years ago

    And the rule for seeing both red and green: “If two lights you see ahead, put your helm and show your red” and the vessels pass safely rather than crashing head on.

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    mid_life_crisis  over 6 years ago

    Red right returning is referring to channel markers; always keep the red channel marker to your right when returning to harbor. When referring to an approaching boat, keep your red (port) to the right (your right) of the oncoming boat. At least that’s the way it works in the States.

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    DKHenderson  3 days ago

    All red and green aside, the first panel is WAY COOL! I wonder how he draws that.

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