Frazz by Jef Mallett for November 19, 2021

#denial

I’ve seen this trope quite a few times from Mallett. Not that it’s any less clever for being clever WITHIN the pattern.

dreams and wishes can come true___

Elvis Aaron Presley

50% could actually be quite statistically significant – depending on one’s expectations.

There’s no probability that he is probably wrong and equally no probability he is probably right!

I like half and half in my coffee.

The kids seem to get more learning from Frazz than their teacher.

Caulfield is working from memory. Accuracy is never assured.

Regarding Frazz’s question – my answer would be about the same as Caulfield’s.

Some people use half & half in their coffee.

My answer would probably have been the same as Caulfield’s when I was Caulfield’s age. Most of the things I give thanks for now are stuff that I worked to obtain or maintain. (Relationships it is maintain, pretty much everything else it is obtain.)

So there’s no point in wishing for things, since whatever nice things happen to you would have happened anyway, whether you wished for them or not. Remember that this Christmas, when the supply chain goes all Grinch on you.

The old adage, “Be careful what you wish for, you may get your wish,” comes to mind, but so does the joke, “How do you make God laugh: Tell Him your life plans.” You can’t always be thankful for the disasters you avoid, because you may not know what they were, or they may only be disasters from your current point in life.

Hind sight is 20/20, but only if you’re walking backwards (I dismissed having eyes in the back of your head.)

My doc recommends skim milk on my cereal, but I still prefer half and half myself.

So if half the things you like are wishes that came true and the other half are things that just happened, it means that working hard to get things you want is a waste of time.