Frazz by Jef Mallett for February 01, 2025

Saw my grandpa do that once. I never tried, looked a little tricky, and I don’t carry a hanky.

I worked outside for part of my career. Around here, they call it a “farmers snot rag”. It is very slightly tricky, but when you gotta blow, you gotta blow, right?

It’s not that cold around here, so no chance of getting a frozen booger. Which might be neater…

Why are they poking fun of people who do this, insinuating that they have less brains than those who don’t?

Actually best done in a hot shower

The ‘sneeze’ was green-ish. Hopefully the brain is otherwise.

Sure, and they unjustly blame the farmers for the Daylight Savings time change, as though it matters what the clock says when you have to feed the animals or plow a field.

Don’t remember the movie [maybe ‘Ma and Pa Kettle’] but there was a scene where a kid’ nose was running and he wiped with his hand. Mother said, Don’t do that with yer hand! What’cha gotta sleeve fer? Brought down the house.

Runners know this maneuver as well.

We call it ‘blowing a snot rocket.’

Another regional term I’ve never heard of.

My mother told me her brothers did that. But then, they were farmers… during the Dust Bowl.

My ex tried to get me to do that once on a hike. Although he gave the argument his best, I am happy to say he did not get his way. I did, however, use up quite a few leaves that day.

Can you get arrested if you’re not a farmer? Asking for a friend. ;-)

An artform!

Farmer “blow” around here. And don’t knock it – it’s environmentally friendly.

“Farmer’s wipe” in my experience.

Farmers do it, especially when breathing straw dust while bailing hay; comes out black.

Air hanky. Since the dawn of time.

I’ve always called that the “Mongolian hanky”.

Finally! A Frazz cartoon in which a kid is pointing for a reason!

Yeah, I have seen a farmer do that. I think the worst example was a mechanic or bricklayer, though.

I had an adult friend try that once. He failed to hold his hand correctly and got glove full for his effort.

I hate seeing that gross habit. Madison Bumgardner did that all the time. Sickening.

I have done it on my bicycle, so long as you’re moving you’re good. I try to do it away from anyone looking as I roll by.

AKA the Texas handkerchief.

I had never heard of it, and I had never seen anyone do it. However, once someone pointed out to me that sneezing was caused by irritation in the sinuses, and that it’s a natural reaction to get rid of whatever is in there, I trained myself to sneeze with my mouth closed.

I rarely have to sneeze more than once, ever since grade school.

I used a variety of makeshift nasal fluid receptacles (sleeves, skirt hems, notebook paper) before my mother finally let me take a handkerchief to school with me. Never go anywhere without one to this day.

This is why road cyclists roll off to the back of the peleton after they finish their pull. Doing snot rockets from the front is not appreciated.

I had to look it up. Farmer’s Sneeze: The act of evacuating one nostril while holding the other shut.

Within the first few paragraphs of “The Red Pony” is a description of this. Gotta say, seeing that in print put me off reading Steinbeck for a few years…

As a cyclist, I call it a snot rocket.

As a cyclist in a cold weather climate, Frazz has absolutely done that, probably while going about 20 mph.

My husband sneezes like that. If he’s in the kitchen when he does it, the chimney flue rings.