Frazz by Jef Mallett for June 23, 2011

“The boat don’t start without her pull.”

“Get arrested, the perp’ll.”

In form of true country blues: “Kill his dog and his wife, Coach’s burp’ll.”

Definitely all truism.

exploiting my inherent attruism;it’s like toying with my rainbow prism

bigpuma, I acknowledge your point of view, but my best advice is that you stop reading the strip. Jef Mallett makes certain assumptions about thereading level and rational capabilities of his readers, and those who, like Coach Hacker, consider “exploiting my inherent altruism” to be “big words” might be happier reading “Garfield.”

That being said, I don’t agree with all of Frazz/Mallett’s opinions myself, namely that anyone who doesn’t participate in endurance sports is likely to be lazy and undereducated, but I don’t post complaints about it whenever that position is hinted at.

Still, I wonder how Mallett would handle it if he ever wanted Frazz and Miss Plainwell have a serious argument about something. The only issue on which they seem to have ANY conflict is whether or not a 26-mile run is more fun than a 200-mile bicycle ride…

He’s not bragging that he’s altruistic. He’s responding to Coach Hacker’s comment “You’ve never turned down someone who’s asked for help.”

I won’t go so far as to say “You’re right”, but I’ll say “I understand why it bothers you.” I don’t see Frazz as a boor. He’s rarely if ever contemptuous of the fools around him, he’s more often amused. And it’s not “elitism” to acknowledge that some people ARE better informed and better educated than others. If anybody in the strip is an intellectual bully, though, it’s Caulfield, and Frazz will often take him to task for it (if mildly).

I had at least one teacher like Mrs. Olson, in 2nd Grade. At that point I certainly can’t claim that I was smarter than SHE was, but she was an animal trainer rather than an educator, interested primarily in making sure her pupils didn’t “make trouble.”

“big words”? I’m thirteen and I know exactly what Frazz’s talking about.

“exploiting my inherent altruism while annealing our acquired antagonism”.