Frazz by Jef Mallett for February 14, 2021

Is being hit in the head with a big old mace anything like being gobsmacked?

A mace is a little too massive for a Cupid to properly wield. Their upper limit is a sledge-hammer-between-your-eyes. The net effect is pretty much the same.

Some people grow into love and are the last to realize while all their friends keep trying to get them to realize. Some, however, fall into lust at first sight. LOVE. I mean LOVE.

Peter Gabriel wrote something about that!

It’s a good thing Mom wasn’t around at the time or Dad would’ve gotten a lot more than a mace.

Off-the-wall subject. Know of a way to reply to someone only listed as a ‘like’?

Actually, Cupid has two arrows, one creating attraction, and the other creating aversion.

Asked my father when I was thirteen, “Father can you tell me what love really means?” His eyes went glassy, not a word was said, he poured another beer and his turned red.

Asked my mother, she acted the same, she never looked up, she seemed so ashamed. Asked my teacher, he reached for the cane. He said “Don’t mention that subject again!”

My big brother told me when I was fourteen “It’s time I showed you what love really means. Girls like kissin’ and romance too, but a boy’s got to know what a man’s got to do.”

He gave me a book, the cover was plain, written by a doctor with a German name. It had glossy pictures, serious stuff, I read it seven times and I knew it well enough.

Read about love, I read it in a magazine. Read about love, “Cosmo” and “Seventeen.” Read about love, in the back of “Hustler,” Hustler," Hustler."

So why

Don’t you moan and sigh?

And why

Do you sit there and cry?

I did everything I’m supposed to do, there’s something wrong and it must be you! I know the ways of a woman, I’ve read about love!

- Richard Thompson (not the “Cul de Sac” cartoonist)

Or, to steal from Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, it’s like having your brains smashed out with a slice of lemon… wrapped around a large gold brick.

A straight right to the chest… by Muhammad Ali.

Bah. Love means nothing. Ask any tennis player.

Love hurts. Love scars.

Happy Valentine’s Day. Be sure to wear red or you’ll get pinched. And drink red beer.

just learned that a Mace is a weapon that was first used back in the Bronze age. it had a round head with spikes on it,

Eros uses gold tips for falling in love and lead tips for the falling out of love.

Since Cupid is fictional, he didn’t actually make the choice.

Cupid is always depicted with not enough wing surface to fly