Frazz by Jef Mallett for October 05, 2013

Lac Froide = French for “cold lake.”

Yes, but like whales and such, it requires a layer of fat. Something Frazz is in short supply.

fear-ciuil, thank you….

Frazz does make a good point…

Totally useless trivia: our British cousins call a cup a “box.”

Not to be a boring pedagogue or anything, but the Humboldt Current is an upwelling current that runs north from Chile to Peru and then curves west at the equator…sorry, just sayin’.

Let’s see. You need a cup for Lair’s Dice, but you don’t wear it.

Gosh, I guess the sky is the limit for me then. Being a gal, no cup required. Thanks Frazz.

Swimming is a sport in the Olympics. So are sledding, skiing, ice skating… Depends on how you do it.

P.S. Synonyms for froide: cold, inhospitable, inaccessible, distant, intemperate, rigorous. Swimming Lac Froide doesn’t sound like a hobby to me!

In BC, it is still called the Japan current, and at least in Vancouver is well above 42°F. Standard Celsius readings for air temperature: 25° go to the beach, 30° go in the water, 35° have to go in the water.

Disagreed, Frazz. In, say, soccer, you MIGHT get hit in the groin, and the cup will serve its purpose. In swimming Lac Froide, you WILL get very cold.

I mentioned this somewhere else, probably on this site, a month or two ago: Got behind a car with one of those Euro oval stickers that read, in a rough handwriting typeface, “13.1 because I’m only half crazy.” However, across the top of the back window was one of those stick-figure family types, except these stick figures represented swimming, bicycling, and running, the components of a triathlon. I wanted to catch up to the occupants of that car and ask, “OK, which one of you is half crazy and which one is way beyond crazy!?”