Frazz by Jef Mallett for August 16, 2021

And Happy,Happy, Joy, Joy is a song.

JUST an adjective? Hrmph. Adjectives are the difference between pie and DELICIOUS pie… between an idea and a good idea…

The problem is, grammatically, anything you want becomes a noun (or pronoun).

I think what he really wants out of life is for it to be an action verb

… as opposed to it (just) being a state of being verb.

Ren and Stimpy said it

“Happy happy Joy Joy”

I’m just hoping for a few conjunctions

Happiness is a noun. Joyful is an adjective.

In older use, “Joy” was a state of being. “Happy” meant you were the recipient of good things happening.

You could verbize joy

Most kids look for excitement. Caulfield is going for exhilaration, a whole level higher.

The slide has been converted to a climbing wall.

I knew a girl named Joy. She made me Happy.

There is no philosophy without grammar.

How about love? There’s a verb for you. And I don’t mean the kissy-face kind, but the real self-giving kind.

Verbing weirds language. – Calvin

Don’t be in a rush to use up all your verbs, Caufield. You’ll wish you’d saved some for when you’re older.

ENJOY!

I’m so adjective, I verb noun.

Enjoy!

Well they say, “verb – that’s what’s happenin” – School House Rock.

Someone told me this paradox, Steven Jobs died, We have no more jobs, Johnny Cash died, we are then out of cash, so who’s next Kevin bacon? Please don’t run to he “Buy N Large” store and stockpile on the bacon. Is just a hoax, or is it ?

The slide has rocks on it? That’s neither happiness or joy.

Am I trying to preposition you?

Joy is also a person. She’s really nice, too.

Love this!

I wanna go down that slide.

Ol’ Papa Hemingway is smiling down on this one… Interesting, too, as it relates to yesterday’s strip: Pheidippides is said to have uttered the words, “Joy to you, we have won” in addressing the Athenian magistrates regarding victory at the battle of Marathon. Of course, he dropped dead thereafter. Lucian relates this story as the “first use of the word ‘joy’ as a greeting.” Thus, it dawned on me that Pheidippides, tasked with delivering the noun, quite literally lived and died by the verb. Run, jump, play… action in itself is a noble and lifelong pursuit. Jef Mallett is a sharp one, methinks.