Frazz by Jef Mallett for September 13, 2014

  1. 71  3d
    KZ71  about 10 years ago

    …………I don’t get it?It’s probably Frazz’s higher social tastes than mine…

     •  Reply
  2. Sunshine   copy
    SusanSunshine Premium Member about 10 years ago

    The very much quoted final stanza of T.S. Eliot’s “The Hollow Men”:

    This is the way the world ends This is the way the world ends This is the way the world ends Not with a bang but a whimper.
     •  Reply
  3. 11 06 126
    Varnes  about 10 years ago

    I’m so glad I live in a place where nobody would even think of bagging leaves…I could burn them, which is kind of cool, but I just drag them into the woods and they disappear….Bagging leaves? (shiver…)

     •  Reply
  4. Ann margaret
    Caldonia  about 10 years ago

    Well, la di da.

     •  Reply
  5. Image
    Olddog1  about 10 years ago

    A little self praise there, Jef?

     •  Reply
  6. Image
    Olddog1  about 10 years ago

    Barnes:Here we can’t burn, not allowed to use plastic bags, have to buy biodegradable paper bags.

     •  Reply
  7. Snoopy
    Darryl Heine  about 10 years ago

    Quiet?

     •  Reply
  8. 041ce150 741f 443a aa6a 84618520b989 1 201 a
    jessegooddoggy  about 10 years ago

    Horse manure, kitchen waste, garden clean up and millions of dried sycamore leaves, and my compost pile cooks all winter. Lots of work, but I am retired…

     •  Reply
  9. Missing large
    Alexander Batey  about 10 years ago

    Mower with mulcher.

     •  Reply
  10. Gourds2008
    drhwhite  about 10 years ago

    He left the"but" out because “bagful” has two syllables, just like “bang but”.

     •  Reply
  11. Missing large
    AdultComicFan  about 10 years ago

    We rake them into the street and they disappear in the middle of the night.

     •  Reply
  12. World champs
    Commycon  about 10 years ago

    Who let Patis in here?

     •  Reply
  13. Zoso1
    Arianne  about 10 years ago

    I’ve been wondering about Frazz’s final statement. I feel that it surely must mean something other than self praise by Jef Mallett. It is worded in such a way… a little ungainly, perhaps? It makes me want to reexamine it. Looking up Eliot in wiki, it is said that he borrowed liberally from other writers. I wondered if Frazz’s statement might be a reference to this, but I can’t glean enough to put that together. The one tenuous explanation that teases at my understanding sounds too simple to be valid, but, here goes: Perhaps each falling leaf is a “T.S. Eliot rip-off”. There are many of them falling, each whispering “Shhhh,” so quietly that you don’t hear them “that good”… or well. I know, this sounds silly. Perhaps his statement is to be taken at face value, or perhaps it is a reference that Eliot scholars would need to explain. Or, maybe, it is simply a breezy, light-hearted play on words?

     •  Reply
  14. Zoso1
    Arianne  about 10 years ago

    Hi comicssfan! Sorry I moved my post out from “over” you, up there – I wanted to change a couple of words. I wonder, is the pun so obvious, there’s no need to explain? Did I go to way yonder too much trouble? SFFanatic implies as much in much fewer words, lol! But, I hadn’t read his/her post when I started writing mine. (A lot of distractions here.)

     •  Reply
  15. Zoso1
    Arianne  about 10 years ago

    I loved Peter Ustinov in Logan’s Run! (Or in anything, for that matter.) He stole the show doing this bit based on “The Naming of Cats.”

     •  Reply
  16. Missing large
    dzw3030  about 10 years ago

    Ants, spiders, beavers, gophers and humans all modify their environment to suit themselves. Which is the less natural?

     •  Reply
  17. Missing large
    rfeinberg  about 10 years ago

    “You don’t hear that many TS Eliot ripoffs that good” is atrocious English. Frazz, I thought you held yourself to a higher standard. At least go with “You don’t often hear a TS Eliot ripoff that good.”

     •  Reply
  18. Dog
    robert423elliott  over 1 year ago

    Looks to me like it should have gone out with an “IT”! Afterall, that leaf went out/down with a “Shhhh” “Shhhh” “Shh” “Sh” – Nothing left to add but the old “IT”. Or “it” to complete the complaint of the leaf! And, to anyone that can’t figure THIS Elliott out, that is “Sh!t”!!!

     •  Reply
Sign in to comment

More From Frazz