Frazz by Jef Mallett for June 01, 2012

Critics are just jealous.

Seriously, people. I was joking…

Those who can – do. Those who understand – teach.

My dad always said if you wanted to learn something, try to teach it.

Those who can’t:blog on and on in the comments…forever perpetuating a stupid argument…disillusioned that they will change people…thinking their views are the only right ones…turning jokes into political issues…showing they are useless in their life…

Wait, I mean, uh…

And those who can’t teach administrate.

Wow. That speech must have been fantastic, and I wouldn’t have expected such profundity from Teddy.

On the other hand, a critic as described by Ishikawa Goemon above is a great ideal – one who can point out the excellence of the man (or woman) in the arena, whether that arena is a kitchen, a computer, or a playing field.

Someone said, “It doesn’t take a carpenter to recognize a poorly built table.”

i don’t get it.

Woody Allen’s version in “Annie Hall”:

“I remember the staff at our public school. You know, we had a saying that those who can’t do, teach, and those who can’t teach, teach gym. And those who couldn’t do anything, I think, were assigned to our school. "

It’s too bad we are in a time when the word “criticize” (and critic, criticism) has two almost-equally-used meanings and neither is sufficiently context-specific for us to be sure which is meant:

criticize = evaluate

criticize = talk trash

@apco

It lasted through to college, genius. Then they folded and I was laid off. The lousy on/off pay was bad enough, but being laid off before getting my last check was worse.

@Sharuniboy

I concede that Jackson Pollock’s art style has meaning for some and no meaning for anyone else. I also concede that too many idiots who know nothing about art attempt to imitate Jackson Pollock and fail miserably.

I also happen to have had a college education and upbringing in art and literature as the son of two scientists who were children of the sixties.

@David Rickard

NO. Ratatouille was released in 2007. I said those lines in 2005 when I was applying for my first job with the game mag. I was only 14, but I had way more skills than the rest of their writing staff. And they knew it. It took them two years to realise it, but then they hired meSo when I speak with expertise, you can take my word on what I say like you can take Anthony Bourdain’s word on food.

(Look him up.)

Nabuquduriu etc., I have a similar theory, but I call it the theory of ten. For example, during the American Revolution, 3 out of ten people were for it, 3 out of ten were against it, and 3 out of ten didn’t know/care….why did the revolution succeed? They somehow won over the tenth person. To me it shows where one should concentrate one’s energy and effort. Win that tenth guy……….It seems to hold true in politics, too….

Nope, I understand English just fine; I even got straight A’s in grammer. Read it again:“…The world is often unkind to new talent, new creations… I was a film and food critic since the age of 14 and I spent three years as a video game critic when I was 16 years old. …The general population are fools who cannot understand art and writing,…”You clearly said you spent three years when you were sixteen. That shows you are part of the “general population” who cannot understand writing.Also, your reply shows that you are part of “the world” who is often unkind.It appears that you can’t take criticism.

A born political commentator!

so is Caulfield saying this because he can do the problem or because he can’t?

What a terrific defense of Dubya! And what a terrific putdown of the carpers who say, with Cromwell, “I beseech you, in the bowels of Christ, to consider that you may be wrong”!

wow, there are some amazingly thin-skinned folks here, along with a lot of folks who seem to be certain that everything is all about them.

I wonder if Caulfield was hoping that Mrs. Olsen would correct his comment!