Frazz by Jef Mallett for January 16, 2025

Hilarious and Amazing logic?

My running club’s motto: just because it’s a bad idea, doesn’t mean you won’t have fun!

That which does not kill you, might kill Caulfield.

Just looked at this up. I didn’t know it was a thing.

One at a time. So the other one can call the ambulance.

And don’t forget the grandeur of Action Park in New Jersey (or as the locals knew it, Class Action Park).

They reopened that slide and Nerfed it! Pffft, babies!

I love the thought on mistakes – they are there to be learned from.

There is no such things as stupid questions, but there are stupid ideas… here, hold my beer and watch…

I bet it was a chore lugging those three 5 gallon pails of water up that slippery slope. . .at 8.3 lb/gallon, that’s a 125lbs in total. I do find it curious, though, as to why he’s doing this? I was born and raised in Michigan and as a kid I went sledding several times after a good snow fall. I don’t ever recall anyone pouring water on the hill before heading down the slope. There was no need to…the snow provided plenty of slip and slide. Perhaps toboggin runs had water poured down their trails as there were specific trails created for them as opposed to the general chaotic mayhem of a hill with a bunch of youngsters heading down the hill every which way.

One of my pet peeves. The over (and incorrect) usage of the term “airborne”. Most often seen in news articles about cars and whatnot. They are not airborne. Airborne means being held aloft by the air, such as in birds and airplanes. Objects like cars and sleds arcing through the air are ballistic. Huge difference. Just me. I’m that way. Sorry.

Perhaps no luge runs where they live?

The worlds tallest water slide was in Kansas. They knew it was dangerous but they opened it anyways. Then a child got decapitated.

I googled this slide. Youtube video show people going down this wavy slide and getting air off the top of a wave and slamming into the top of the next wave. They just reopened with – a rubberized landing mat at the bottom.Seems like the wave form needs to be reduced.

Seems inadvisable, but that’s just a lifetime of experience talking.

Just make sure you don’t set it up in front of a tree as in Wallace the Brave today.

On the slide of Belle Isle, I was there all the while

Sled and Ice Ice Baby.

I remember that slide!

MY pet peeve is people that feel compelled to make a big deal about the otherwise mundane. Enjoy your peeves… : )

Good heavens, man! Are you pouring freezing water on the Pictured Rocks!??

I grew up in Detroit, and have many fond memories of Belle Isle.

giant slide >

One winder in the 1960s we got a LOT of snow. There was a very steep hill near our house (Frenchie’s Hill) which was danged near impassable to cars with just a little snow. So, several unnamed people wet down Frenchie’s Hill and turned it to ice. Best sledding ever! Cars had to detour away, between the ice and the sledders…No one could do that on a public street today, what with law enforcement and threat of lawsuits. We’re so lucky to have survived childhood…

Uh, Frazz, if that kid gets hurt, you’re going to jail: you’re the one with the bucket of water in your hands

just saying…

Toot ! Boblow boat.

When I was in 6th grade, we iced the slide and the ground where we landed…we got in trouble because it was fine for us but not so much for the little 1st graders. But it was so much fun to fly down the slide and then half way across the playground.

The perfect giant waterslide would end with 5-10 feet horizontal just one or two inches above the water in the pool so the rider would end up skipping across the surface instead of just splashing down into the pool. There could even be a prize for the farthest distance traveled per day.

I rode down the giant slide on Belle Isle a few years ago. Lots of fun. Yes, I flew thru the air for short distances.