Frazz by Jef Mallett for March 25, 2019

Are you sure it’s not the donut powder?

“Opaque” is an absolute, Mrs. O. “Opaque” is the end of the line of being…“opaque”!!! (I promise I’ll never do this again, being a Grammar Goon, I mean. But she’s a teacher !!!) :-)

There’s better things to clean your glasses with than a, presumably dirty and fatty, piece of cloth. Something with lemon or denaturalised alcohol.

There is no such thing as coffee that is too strong – there are only men and women that are too weak.

fusilier, who grinds this own beans and is looking into a roaster….

James 2:24

You missed the point, grammar goon. Her glasses are already opaque, her breath made them worse, hence, the “more opaque” comment. Plus, it’s grammatical license for comics to use an “iffy” form of grammar, so as to fit in the whole thought with as few words as are necessary.

She doesn’t want to see her students clearly. I don’t blame her. She’s in a comic strip.

That’s an oxymoron…too much coffee.

Frazz11 hrs ·

One of my earliest favorite songs was the Johnny Nash hit, “I Can See Clearly Now.” What’s interesting is that I don’t remember hearing it on the radio, though it must have been played there. I don’t know how else you reach #1 on the charts back then.

Unless you’re the background music to a cool commercial that gets a ton of airplay. That’s a possibility, too. The song reached me because “I Can See Clearly Now” was the soundtrack behind a US Air Force recruiting ad, which may have launched it over the tipping point for everybody else. Or not. It’s hard to say. The song reached #1 in 1972, and the Vietnam War didn’t end until 1975, and I always thought the obvious reason — the only reason — to put a song that positive behind a military recruitment commercial was to subtly say, “hey, come on, join up, it’s safe now; the war’s over and you won’t get shot out of the sky until the next one.” But I may have been overthinking it all these years. They military is not known for its subtlety, and it may simply have been the wild-blue-yonder-friendly and anything-but-subtle line, “look all around, there’s nothing but blue skies.”

I never joined up, but I did learn to fly and I still love that song. So I guess the commercial didn’t work, but the song sure did.

I sometimes like to comment, “There are no absolutes”; unfortunately this often means explaining ‘irony’ to the irony-deficient.