Frazz by Jef Mallett for May 12, 2015

No, we just don’t like things served up in a work analogy or context.

Wait, those fables have completely different morals.

The tortoise and the Hare is all about not rushing, and how consistency leads to success.The ant and the grasshopper is about hard work now paying off in the future, while laziness leads to poverty.

Sorry, the kid is wrong, 2 different stories. (I would also add malaise-induced overconfidence to the hare and tortoise, while the grasshopper was not overconfident, just lazy.)

Frazz and his fans adore pedantry. “Excessively concerned with minor details and rules or displaying academic learning” is one definition. (Why can’t they do both? I think pedants prefer to do both.)-I will be pedantic for a second, and point out that a leisurely race with crawling and napping does not a sport make!

I figure we just don’t like to tell little kids stories in which somebody dies, especially when they’re not villainous. All the hare did was lose a race.

I still say the tortoise was using performance enhancing drugs.

The fable’s not pedantic, the moral is. If you’ve got to explain it…

Obviously, Bugs Bunny has better press than Jiminy Cricket.

Or how Hans Christian Anderson’s The Little Mermaid was brutal, and Disney had to leave out quite a bit! It’s funny how that crab was red, BTW. That would mean he had been cooked for dinner. That’s pretty much the only way you have a bright red crab.

Yup. And well put.:)

In the Uncle Remus version of the Tortoise and the Hare, Brer Terrapin uses all his similar looking kin to trot out along the course and fool Brer Rabbit into thinking he was losing, while the real Brer Terrapin hung out near the finish line.

There was a Looney Tunes version too that was one of the few times Bugs Bunny got taken down a peg.

True but we tolerate your comments, no matter how banal and tiresome.