Frazz by Jef Mallett for May 10, 2013
May 09, 2013
May 11, 2013
Transcript:
Caulfield: If Condors can fly all day without moving a muscle and they only eat meat, why aren't their arteries trashed? Frazz: This is why I like science: so many questions! Mrs. Olsen: This is why I prefer math: actual answers.
Randy B Premium Member over 11 years ago
The implied comparison is to people, which are mammals (not avian dinosaurs), and omnivores (not obligate carnivore/scavengers).
ReneTray over 11 years ago
Ty for information.
ReneTray over 11 years ago
Yes on both issues.
Johnnie Polo Premium Member over 11 years ago
The meat they eat is better than the fast food meat some of us eat.
Ned Snipes over 11 years ago
Like this http://i.imgur.com/roJd2Pp.jpg
nerdhoof over 11 years ago
For all we know, maybe their arteries are trashed, and that’s why they’re near extinction. (I know, there are other reasons.)
annieb1012 over 11 years ago
@Ned Snipes “if that was mine, I would sell it on the spot.”
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To whom?! (LOL) I was thinking that there had better be a good long garden hose in the area somewhere…
Dr Lou Premium Member over 11 years ago
See…not a problem. Teacher starts assigning each questioner their question as a homework/research assignment. OR…they go to the school’s computer lab…if they have one…and do some research there. That is how we learn, after all.
H P Hundt Premium Member over 11 years ago
@olfart:Last week they got me in the car wash driveway; as I was leaving of course.
hippogriff over 11 years ago
Carrion has a certain amount of pre-digestion (from bacteria) to make it through in that time. Also immunity to some of the bacteria that tear our insides out helps too.
Not the Smartest Man On the Planet -- Maybe Close Premium Member over 11 years ago
“Interesting question, little boy. Write a report about it for extra credit.”
Mary McNeil Premium Member over 11 years ago
In that kind of meat, most of the transfats have leached into the gorund.
chromosome Premium Member over 11 years ago
I bet there are a lot of teachers who would love to have Caulfield in their class!
mkeogh36 Premium Member over 11 years ago
No shit!?
childe_of_pan over 7 years ago
A lot of teachers on this site have said that, but somehow I think the novelty would pale fairly quickly (although Mr. Burke often seems to best Caulfield at his own game). As a character in a comic, I think he’s the student a lot of us wish could have been.