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Frazz by Jef Mallett for February 12, 2017
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Transcript:
Mrs. Olsen: Caulfield, what on earth? Caulfield: When things aren't clear, their response seems to be to turn on a light and blow a horn. Mrs. Olsen: Well, this isn't cape Caulfield, it's Bryson Elementary. And if something's not clear, the response should be to ask smart questions and buckle down and stu... Caulfield: What onshore, actually. I'm taking a cue from the coast guard. Mrs. Olsen: The coast guard. *Click*
Yeah…. this one’s kinda fuzzy.
But before I go on and have to give a spoiler alert….
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Night…. yes, due to shipboard technology, a lot of lighthouses have been decommissioned and sold, or merely fallen into disrepair…. but there are hundreds of them even here in the US that are still in use.
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So…. back to my explanation…
STOP here if you want to puzzle it out, and skip my attempt. OTOH I could be dead wrong anyway, so what the heck, read on:
“What onshore” makes no sense…. it’s just Caulfield’s smart-alecky retort to “What on Earth.”
I wondered about the blue box on the left… but it’s only the back of his chair.He’s not pulling the yellow cord out of it, but past it.
Took me a while to realise the light house in the middle panel is only to illustrate his point…. they’re not on a field trip.
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OK…. apparently, something Mrs. Olsen said IN CLASS was unclear….
so he’s going to use a halogen work-light and an airhorn to bring it to her attention instead of raising his hand like anybody else in the room would do.
You know… I usually like Caulfield.
But sometimes Mallet’s mythological “perfect student” is writ too large…. or at least, too large for his britches.