Frazz by Jef Mallett for March 11, 2021

“I’m flush with that.”

Well, if you could position him under a sink maybe…

That must have been before Metamucil was invented.

This reminds me of where some men seem to do their greatest thinking.

It didn’t come to my mind until just now… Definitely a step down, mentally.

When you see The Thinker, flowing doesn’t come to mind; it’s more like clogging.

Maybe “The Thinker” was cogitating on excellent plumbing practices!

I dunno. When I think of Rodin, I think of a chiseler.

Except that the brain, in flow, functions extremely well; if it got “out of the way,” the whole thing would absolutely crash . .

The Thinker was sitting on a throne, not a throne.

My dad said he did some of his best thinking in the bathroom. ;–}

Very old school; nowadays the thinker would be staring into a mobile device

nice flow of logic here …

The last panel is the standup version of The Thinker

Aren’t flow tanks those deprivation chambers where you flow in total darkness to relax?

A high proportion of professional athletes are idiot savants.

Now that’s funny!

that last statement is very true.

Everybody harps on The Thinker for nudity. Except Scott Meyer, who merely says he wouldn’t pose like that unless he were thinking of how it would feel to get punched by a short person.

State of Flow? Isn’t that where Progressive Insurance is headquartered?

Athletes get into a state of flow when they stop overthinking their actions and allow muscle memory and training to take over. In business, the muscle most often used is the brain, so it requires, y’know, thought. Businesses that operate by flying by the seat of their pants are usually ones that crash and burn.

You’d think our eight year old genius would have more empathy for thought.

I like the way he draws Frazz’s arms so they look rather like pipes and joints. Enough to suggest old-fashioned plumbing anyway.

Garbage in, compost out …

It is probably because athletic excellence and intellectual excellence aren’t the same.

Caulfield’s first line brings to mind Obi Wan’s advice to Luke to get his senses out of the way.

A most clever strip!

Doesn’t he know that the goals of a think tank and those of a sports team are very different?

Actually, “in flow” is also used of computer programmers. It takes about half an hour to achieve, and can be dissipated in a second when your damfool boss walks into your cubicle and asks, “How ‘bout them Patriots, huh?”, effectively giving your mind a swirly.

Years ago there was a cartoon-I think it was from The New Yorker-in which two matronly ladies are looking at a Rodin’s The Thinker and one says to the other, “Whatever can he be thinking about? He has no cards in his hand.”

Generalize much?

The Thinker – wondering why he forgot the roll of toilet paper!

Eight year olds don’t talk like this.