Frazz by Jef Mallett for April 18, 2020

Sometimes the “epidemic” is uneducated people.

This is a lovely sentiment from the teacher, but what epidemic etc is the kid referring to? presumably teacher started working no more than thirty years ago?

Thank you very much Mr. Mallett for using “graduate from college”. Far too many people, including those who should understand English such as journalists think that “from” is redundant.

Mr Spaetzle nailed it. We begin with hope, get slammed with reality, then learn to accommodate both. As a guy said, life ain’t no easy gig. You gotta find your beat

I like a couple of y’all’s display names so much, I might change mine to Cthulhu Wimsey.

I realized it was Aids just about the time the comments opened. Thot maybe he was finally addressing Covid and shifted Frazz into the future… How is Frazz this far behind Pearls?

I don’t know that this is meant always to be in tight ‘real’ time. I do however, very much like Mr Spaetzle’s answer.

sounds like the beginning of “A Tale of Two Idiots”

As someone who graduated college in ’89 with CS and math degrees I can see what he is talking about. The market crash of ’87 heralded the recession to follow, HIV was just getting started and no one understood it at the time. It took me six months to find a job in that economy. It taught me a lot about persistence, grit and hope that are coming in quite handy now.

Thank you! Excellent message.

I find it interesting that people have come up with a variety of options on what era Frazz was referring to. Perhaps he was making a point by being intentionally vague? Every generation has its crisis. This is ours.

Regardless of his age he can still feel that way.

Does Caulfield think Mr Spaetzle was around in 1918 ?