Frazz by Jef Mallett for January 18, 2020

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    Concretionist  almost 5 years ago

    Nice to think it up in advance. I generally get all my best bon mots between 1 and 1000 minutes after they’ll do any good. Though do occasionally rise to the, um, occasion.

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    eromlig  almost 5 years ago

    It IS inspired, Jef. I have a simile smile on my face even as we speak. Or write.

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    GRogerStreff  almost 5 years ago

    When I first looked at this one, I thought nice winter sunset, and then I thought, oh wait, its Frazz, and that’s a winter sunrise.

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    jamesbachreeves  almost 5 years ago

    About as useful as an ejection seat in a helicopter.

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    Bill The Nuke  almost 5 years ago

    Since I used to venture out in blizzards to get sundaes, I don’t find that simile useful.

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    sacldczoo  almost 5 years ago

    I think most ice cream trucks come to Florida in the winter

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    Flossie Mud Duck  almost 5 years ago

    Are you kidding, Frazz? Ice cream is the perfect cold-weather food; it evens out one’s insides with the outside. Mmmmmmm, good!

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    atajayhawk  almost 5 years ago

    Winter is the ideal time for ice cream cones: so much less rush to eat them.

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    Happy Tinkerbelle Premium Member almost 5 years ago
    a screen door in a submarine
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    sandpiper  almost 5 years ago

    Air-brakes on a turtle?

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    well-i-never  almost 5 years ago

    He’s forgetting all the Schwan’s trucks. Summer and Winter, they’re always there.

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    Night-Gaunt49[Bozo is Boffo]  almost 5 years ago

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    In the Midwest, we’re taught that if you can’t say something nice, don’t say anything at all. In other parts of the county, my understanding is that you say it anyway and follow it up with “bless her heart.” Or precede it with some version of “far be it from me to say this, but …”

    I am no nicer than any of those people, but I do like the challenge of trying to figure out a way to say what you have to say that comes of at least sounding nice. There are a lot of ways to say that something or someone is useless, and since it’s not a nice thing to say, most of the ways to say it are kind of coarse. I came across one such way in a book I was reading and wondered if I could do better than that. I found a way that works OK for a comic strip. Although to be fair, in the context of the book, it would have been about as useful as the simile in the book.

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    Night-Gaunt49[Bozo is Boffo]  almost 5 years ago

    Some people call that being “PC” though it is just being nice, or attempting to be so not some bad mouthing person. some confuse it with being “real” instead of truthful. And they so enjoy naming people all kinds of things from a cripple to racist slurs.

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    elmorrissey  almost 5 years ago

    For those who speak no French, the comment translates as “the moment on the stairs”. When you’re on your way up to bed and realize what you ought to have replied.

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