Frazz by Jef Mallett for September 21, 2013

me too

That’s when I usually feel like I am being trampled.

and @ RazorD9…I agree with both of you.…But now – if you don’t mind – I will continue my preparations for my winter’s sleep.…Yawn!

I’ve always figured winter would be the season that one would want to save daylight.

daylight savings time. it doesn’t save daylight and energy.

Daylight savings time….eh, I give it six months

That’s ‘Big, heavy blue lumberer,’…

So we’re all agreed. We refuse to fund the government until they get rid of daylight savings time. Power to the people! Oh wait, only congress is allowed to do that…

When an old Indian chief was told about daylight savings time he said, “It sounds like someone thought you could cut a foot off one end of the blanket, sew it to the other end, and suddenly have a longer blanket.”

THAT clears up the idiocy of daylight savings time.

Yep, one more stupid human idea, and our pets especially hate it. I am 65 and retired, and it still takes me several days to adjust.

It would be far more effective just to change the hours the stores are open and leave the clocks alone. One of Franklin’s wrong ideas.

Actually, half right: “equal” comes from “equus” meaning “horse”. If two warriors each had a horse, they were “equal”“Nox” means “night.”

We have daylight savings because people are governed by the clock. People that don’t care about clocks don’t care about daylight savings.

I remember when Nixon did that. Waiting for the school bus in the dark and the snow, hoping no cars skidded out into us by braking on seeing us at the last second. I remember watching the sunrises from my English class windows.

(At OldDog.)

I wish we had Daylight Savings all year. Although I understand that for kids having to wait outside for the bus, it does help to not be waiting in the dark.

I do get really tired of coming home in the dark.

The roots for this word are incorrect. Original latin: aequinoctium to equinoxium (medieval latin) It means “equal night”

I love daylight savings time. I don’t mind the dwindling daylight, I hate it when it gets dark before 5:00 in the afternoon. As for the schoolkids argument, many of them are in latchkey programs that start before sun up anyway. If we had ds time in the winter, at least the sun would still be up when most of us got out of work at 5:00.

It’s not right at all; it comes, of course, from Latin for “equal night.” And I’d be happier if we’d just get rid of daylight time altogether. It’s a pain in the tailpipe, and it’s the primary cause of seasonal affective disorder.

If I understand my Latin roots, Equus = equalNox = Goddess of night.

The t-shirt. Or more to the point, the LOGO on Frazz’s t-shirt.Could it be the logo of the Harpeth Hills Flying Monkey Marathon?!?!?!?!?!?!?If so, incredible! (The Flying Monkey Marathon is a tiny little boutique marathon in Nashville, Tennessee, with maybe 250 runners competing, total.)

I love how people are on here spouting about how Frazz’s definition isn’t correct, when Jane acknowledges it in panel 2. It’s like they can’t get past the first panel without having to assert their perceived superiority. It’s called wordplay, folks.