Frazz by Jef Mallett for June 23, 2011
Transcript:
Coach Hacker: I'm ready for my lesson, Frazz! Frazz: Lesson. Coach Hacker: You're teaching me to write songs. Frazz: We discussed it, but... Coach Hacker: You've never turned down someone who asked for help. Frazz: Ok. Rhyme something with "exploiting my inherent altruism." Coach Hacker: Whoa. Hey. No big words.
Winkster over 13 years ago
“The boat don’t start without her pull.”
McGehee over 13 years ago
“Get arrested, the perp’ll.”
bobdcousy over 13 years ago
In form of true country blues: “Kill his dog and his wife, Coach’s burp’ll.”
puddleglum1066 over 13 years ago
Definitely all truism.
lancemay over 13 years ago
exploiting my inherent attruism;it’s like toying with my rainbow prism
fritzoid Premium Member over 13 years ago
bigpuma, I acknowledge your point of view, but my best advice is that you stop reading the strip. Jef Mallett makes certain assumptions about thereading level and rational capabilities of his readers, and those who, like Coach Hacker, consider “exploiting my inherent altruism” to be “big words” might be happier reading “Garfield.”
That being said, I don’t agree with all of Frazz/Mallett’s opinions myself, namely that anyone who doesn’t participate in endurance sports is likely to be lazy and undereducated, but I don’t post complaints about it whenever that position is hinted at.
Still, I wonder how Mallett would handle it if he ever wanted Frazz and Miss Plainwell have a serious argument about something. The only issue on which they seem to have ANY conflict is whether or not a 26-mile run is more fun than a 200-mile bicycle ride…
fritzoid Premium Member over 13 years ago
He’s not bragging that he’s altruistic. He’s responding to Coach Hacker’s comment “You’ve never turned down someone who’s asked for help.”
I won’t go so far as to say “You’re right”, but I’ll say “I understand why it bothers you.” I don’t see Frazz as a boor. He’s rarely if ever contemptuous of the fools around him, he’s more often amused. And it’s not “elitism” to acknowledge that some people ARE better informed and better educated than others. If anybody in the strip is an intellectual bully, though, it’s Caulfield, and Frazz will often take him to task for it (if mildly).
I had at least one teacher like Mrs. Olson, in 2nd Grade. At that point I certainly can’t claim that I was smarter than SHE was, but she was an animal trainer rather than an educator, interested primarily in making sure her pupils didn’t “make trouble.”
Creature950 over 13 years ago
“big words”? I’m thirteen and I know exactly what Frazz’s talking about.
Boots at the Boar Premium Member over 13 years ago
“exploiting my inherent altruism while annealing our acquired antagonism”.