Frazz by Jef Mallett for December 11, 2023

Kid’s been reading too many Crankshaft ’toons?

Calvin tutor him.

That boreders on self-defecating humor.

Norm Crosby lives!

The sad part is that this is somewhat accurate to how some people actually communicate….“I would of” being a prime example.

Me thinks he dust pro test two mulch!

He took the words right out of… somewhere…

In regard to a sense of four boating: Could you get by with three boating? (Or doesn’t that make enough cents?) How about five boating? (Does that smell right? Does that make too much scents?)

Mall of proper prisms.

Serial spoon erisms!

Like " Fitted sheets?"

That was a non-sea-critter.

Actually, “proverbly” would be a good word, snappier than proverbially.

Vogueing was always doomed…

Impending domes.

I have a feeling he did scram for it, though.

Proverbly.

Four boating? Would that be three men in a boat plus the dog?

I have a sense of “pre-voting”, but it’s only ’cause I turned on the news channel this morning. It was an accident. And leaving it on was… a mistake.

Could have a career as a gag writer. No pun intended.

Kayaking in the rapids in the River of Doom!!

Waterfalls ahead!!

Kid doesn’t even know “probably”? What a rare level of ignorance for this comic.

I’m trying to imagine how a vocabulary test would work. Is it along the lines of “Fill in this blank with a word that fits the sentence.”? Or maybe “What’s a synonym for ‘uncertain’?”? Or even possibly “List all the words we had you memorize for this test.”?

Maybe a spelling test?

Inspired by Frank & Ernest.

Like when “the shift hits the fan”?

When you mentioned “Vogue,” I was waiting for a reference to MamaDonna.