Coming Soon đ At the beginning of April, youâll be
introduced to a brand-new GoComics! See more information here. Subscribers, check your
email for more details.
Frazz by Jef Mallett for February 26, 2012
Transcript:
Girl: What's that thing Frazz: It's a kiwi fruit Girl: It looks like a big, hairy goose egg. Frazz; Good eye. It was called a chinese gooseberry until 1953. Girl: No wonder! Frazz: Oh, that's nothing compared to what marketers did with fish. Would you want to eat a slimehead? Or a patagonian toothfish? Neither did anybody elsem until they started calling them orange roughy and chilean sea bass. Now they're so popular they're at risk of being overfished. Girl: I mean no wonder it's all green inside. Frazz: No, no. They renamed the whole species.
V-Beast about 13 years ago
Same with humans. Back in â53 I wouldâve been an old fogie, but these days marketing has renamed me as a Senior Citizen.
lipophilia about 13 years ago
Those are nothing compared to Canola oil â made from rapeseed.
lemon868 about 13 years ago
@GatoCatâhopefully youâre not, as I am one year older and likelier to be green!
Kadedee about 13 years ago
I got 10 Kiwis in my Bountiful Basket this week. www.bountifulbaskets.org
Dr. Midnight about 13 years ago
Yeah, the marketing guys didnât think âRapeseed Oilâ would sell well either. Thatâs how we ended up with Canola. True story.
VikThor about 13 years ago
same here.
YatInExile about 13 years ago
Who else got Brevity in their e-mail? Again.
CIpressa about 13 years ago
I got Brevity, too!
Varnes about 13 years ago
I love Kiwis!
ZEPP Premium Member about 13 years ago
Kudos for the âI say itâs spinachâŠâ reference in the throwaway. Itâs from way before my time, but one Iâve known since the â50s!
rekam about 13 years ago
How green must my innards be at 74? Or my brotherâs at 79?
sizer99 about 13 years ago
Whenever I get Brevity in the email I briefly think Mallettâs really let himself slip.
tsandl about 13 years ago
Itâs still called a Chinese gooseberry in places where the European gooseberry is a popular fruit. They share some similarities in their appearanceâhairy skin, green flesh, full of small black seedsâŠ
Still Teaching 40+ about 13 years ago
This is the second Sunday in a row I got Brevity, are they trying to maraket more strips?
Dry and Dusty Premium Member about 13 years ago
Good afternoon to all you moldy old senior citizens born in 1953. I keep forgetting though, to ask for all those senior citizen discounts. Imagine how much money I could potentially save? I guess there are some benefits, I suppose . . . .
hippogriff about 13 years ago
Dr. Midnight: Correct. It was called rape because the way it would take over a wheat field. Then they discovered a use for it more valuable than wheat. âA weed is a plant for which we have yet to find a use.â âA weed is any plant where you donât want it. A rose bush is a weed in a wheat field and wheat is a weed in a rose garden.â
lmchildress about 13 years ago
I donât see the throwaway panel here⊠what did it say?
rboydstun Premium Member about 13 years ago
Love Frazz. Am glad to know Iâm not the only one who got DeFrazzed today.
Rick Smith Premium Member about 13 years ago
Why do I have Brevity in my mycomicspage email instead of Frazz?
hippogriff about 13 years ago
pschearer: The etymological meaning is to seize, which is the first step in any rape.
kageyb about 13 years ago
Where is Tuesdayâs?? Not even a substitute?