Frazz by Jef Mallett for October 13, 2022

Including your heart, right, Frazz?

I get that some of you have spider squeebles. But really, an extremely small set of spiders are actually venomous… and most of them prefer not to bite anyway. When I find a spider inside that’s (going to be) in trouble, I pick it up (maybe by chasing it onto a towel or just my hand) and take it outside. Because if you see it, it’s almost surely NOT one of the ones who will actually hurt you.

Mmmm, apple cider doughnuts at Apple Hill!

I do prefer dough-nuts over donuts. But it’s not a big deal. What’s most important is what kind of doughnut or donut.

Apple cider donuts? That’s a new one on me. Is it a Northeast thing?

Mrs Olsen caught a misspelling in a spoken set. Hard to do, especially as pronunciation is the same for both. But good comic twist.

Spiders tend to build webs in October.

Ms Plainwell has a few too.

Spiders clean up other insects with their webs…they are welcome in my house…other insects, not so much!

What a nice sentiment Frazz had about Ms Plainwell.

Awww…

Caulfield should have more respect for Mrs. Olsen, since she can see word balloons when someone speaks.

It’s her ploy to get you to investigate which is witch.

So Mrs. Olsen can read word balloons?

OH HO! Is this a reference to their private life?

I love spiders. Trying to talk myself to drive 4 hours into LA’s horrific traffic to attend the Spider Pavilion at the Natural History Museum in the next few weeks.

Cute spider pic

https://media.ifunny.com/results/2014/05/18/0mikqzwwv3.jpg

I was on a delivery around Halloween. After the guy took his stuff I complimented him on his decor and said that the spider was awesome. He asked, “What spider?”. That was when said spider decided to move. The man shrieked. I had never seen a wolf spider in person until then. The spider was the coolest thing. He was totally chill, but when we got too close he decided to leave. Meanwhile a cockroach will have me screaming and running. Ten foot snake?-no problem. Spider the size of my hand?-neato. One inch roach?-NOPE!! lol

There are 50 root words in the English language that include the character string “ugh”, and the only one in which all 3 letters are pronounced is “bughouse”. See Lucy Ricardo explain the idiocy to her husband here: youtu.be/uZV40f0cXF4

We started purging the language of this relic from Old Germanic (where it was pronounced by clearing your throat) by adopting such comprehensible spellings as donut, thruway, slew (or sluff, depending on which meaning of “slough” you intended), hiccup, plow, loch, and draft, and the desire for efficiency in texting has sped up the acceptance of thot, enuf, tho, altho, thoro, dottir, and laff.

Ughlessness: the spelling of the future!

I’m all for removing the “ugh” from my food.

Why would Ms. Plainwell correct her? “Donuts” and “doughnuts” sound exactly the same. Are there physical voice balloons in Frazz’s pretentious reality?

I forget sometimes that they date…I think. Are they dating or are they running buddies?