Frazz by Jef Mallett for April 26, 2021

Some is good, more is better, and too much is just enough.

Now, what does that NOT apply to? Hot sauce, for one.

The answer is: Because a little starts out good, but it takes more, later.

It all started with tolerating the TASTE of coffee.

I thought Frazz was holding both of ’em.

When I interact with folks new to the US I use this single line to describe our culture: “If anything is good, more of it is better.”

They’re both drinking the same amount of coffee … Frazz is just cutting back on the hot water.

This is pretty obvious, even for Caulfield.

Why is a kid in the teacher’s lounge?

So… if a little bowel trouble is good, more bowel trouble is better???

So you can have more of them without dying. Duh, Caulfield. Now, go take your microdose of arsenic.

I’ve got one word for you. Just one word. Are you listening? Good.

Salt.

Or, as one of my favorite super-heros put it:“Always… ALWAYS remember. Less is LESS. More is MORE. More is BETTER, and TWICE as much is GOOD too.“Not enough is BAD, and too much is never ENOUGH except when it’s JUST ABOUT RIGHT.”—The Tick (the large blue nigh-invulnerable superhero, not the bug)

Now it’s the teachers starting with bad assumptions.

Save some coffee for Mrs. Olsen.

You can not just dump too much Caulfield down the drain.

Here’s where we throw in the old joke about the backfiring genie. Promised a guy 3 wishes but said that, whatever he wished for, his hated ex-wife would get double that. Wish #1: A million dollars. Wish #2: Round-the-world cruise. Wish #3: Give a kidney to somebody who really needed it.

“If one is good, two must be twice as good” has been described as how people with addictive personalities think.

As Caulfield suggests, though, even if the thing doesn’t become harmful in large enough quantities, you can build up tolerances so you need more and more while enjoying it less and less. Once you start chasing the dragon, the faster you run the farther behind you fall.

Sounds like a traffic light in Boston. Red means go, yellow means go a little faster, and red means proceed with caution,

Wow – what a collection of famous surnames in this coffee clutch to contemplate!

Bryan Little

Johnny Jolly Good

Thomas More

Brian Bigger

Christian Ponder

Howie Long

Brock Caulfield

Cole Caulfield

( Boredom and lack of hustling and bustling like a Maurice Sendak dog sometime leads to narrow thought patterns, such as questioning what Odell Beckham Jr. and Lynn Swann have in common other than 51 TD’s.)

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Frazz 16h ·

More is not necessarily a bad thing, and even a little of certain things can be seriously problematic. So “if a little is good, more is better” seems like a useless rule to follow OR avoid.

I like the code I’ve had most of my life, with a nod to (I believe) Oscar Wilde: Everything in moderation, especially moderation in moderation. But I like what it’s morphed to in my mind, and though someone surely beat me to this one as well, I don’t know who it is: Excess in moderation, but never moderation to excess.

With some compounds your body builds a tolerance like caffeine and cocaine. If you reach a point too much all you can do is take large amounts to keep the withdrawal symptoms at bay. That is addicted.