More annoying to me is that “Can you…” implies that I might lack the ability to perform your mundane task. “Will you…” correctly inquires whether I desire to perform it.
Had a boss like that once, He didn’t last long. Also there is a song Foolish Questions that lists the timing of the timing of similar questions. it is not a very good song but it gets the point across.
For example: standing before the vanity mirror, shaving suds on face, and razor in hand, the inevitable question comes, Are you gonna’ shave? Or my favorite: sound asleep at 0500 and the phone rings: did I wake you?
Even worse is when someone asks “Did you do it correctly?” The president of the company I worked with long ago asked me to sign off on his passport application (professional engineers were approved to do that), and when I gave it back to him, he asked that question. My answer was “I don’t know” – you should have seen the expression on his face! I then laughed and said “Yes”. He didn’t laugh.
In the great big container ship stacked high with things I don’t understand, somewhere there is a crate labeled “mind-reading.” Not that I wonder how mind-reading works. I wonder why anyone would go to the effort to learn how to do it when, if you just wait, eventually people will take their innermost thoughts and just say them out loud. Or write them into a comic strip or accompanying blog.
And not to betray any insecurities about my own strip, Frogg and thoughts, but the other thing I wonder is, let’s say you could read people’s minds and glimpse what’s going on in there, and how often would you go away saying, “really? That’s it?”Frazz by Jef Mallett for Nov 26, 2017 | GoComics.com
mddshubby2005 almost 7 years ago
More annoying to me is that “Can you…” implies that I might lack the ability to perform your mundane task. “Will you…” correctly inquires whether I desire to perform it.
Lyons Group, Inc. almost 7 years ago
As transparent as many of the posters I read.
Ceeg22 Premium Member almost 7 years ago
I hate that, too
Rogers George Premium Member almost 7 years ago
Hey! Everybody missed the possibility that she was teasing him. She has been known to show a sense of humor on occasion…
sandpiper almost 7 years ago
Had a boss like that once, He didn’t last long. Also there is a song Foolish Questions that lists the timing of the timing of similar questions. it is not a very good song but it gets the point across.
For example: standing before the vanity mirror, shaving suds on face, and razor in hand, the inevitable question comes, Are you gonna’ shave? Or my favorite: sound asleep at 0500 and the phone rings: did I wake you?
Masterskrain almost 7 years ago
Al Jaffe had it figured out with “Snappy Answers to Stupid Questions!” years ago.
garcoa almost 7 years ago
Even worse is when someone asks “Did you do it correctly?” The president of the company I worked with long ago asked me to sign off on his passport application (professional engineers were approved to do that), and when I gave it back to him, he asked that question. My answer was “I don’t know” – you should have seen the expression on his face! I then laughed and said “Yes”. He didn’t laugh.
Thomas Pallen Premium Member almost 7 years ago
I love Frazz, but read it in the real comics section on Sundays because here the introductory panel is always missing — why is that?
tdidog almost 7 years ago
Note that Caulfield reads both of their expressions even though he got hers wrong. Nice play with thought/speak balloons.
Richard S Russell Premium Member almost 7 years ago
How long has it been since anybody swept that hallway? It’s positively filthy outside the broom path.
Night-Gaunt49[Bozo is Boffo] almost 7 years ago
Frazz
11 hrs ·
In the great big container ship stacked high with things I don’t understand, somewhere there is a crate labeled “mind-reading.” Not that I wonder how mind-reading works. I wonder why anyone would go to the effort to learn how to do it when, if you just wait, eventually people will take their innermost thoughts and just say them out loud. Or write them into a comic strip or accompanying blog.
And not to betray any insecurities about my own strip, Frogg and thoughts, but the other thing I wonder is, let’s say you could read people’s minds and glimpse what’s going on in there, and how often would you go away saying, “really? That’s it?”Frazz by Jef Mallett for Nov 26, 2017 | GoComics.com