Frazz by Jef Mallett for August 25, 2018

That used to be fun, especially back in the days when we used to have aluminium coins of 1,2,3 and 5 paise (I’m in India)!

We did it too…Except we didn’t realize that the tracks had already been decommissioned. We were a bit dense.

Won’t that derail the trains these days? Won’t they be called terrorists for trying to endanger public transport and their passengers?

I have a pair of nickles that I welded together with a train. Overlap the coins with the tilted one toward the train. After eight or ten wheels, it’ll look like a figure eight. Probably can’t use clad coins for this experiment, and you’ll need a slow train, too.

Kid with the card, Paraphrase DEVO. Tear it up and while doing so sing, ♫"Rip it, and rip it good!"♫ You will get your $.19 worth and more. ♫When a gift card comes along, you must rip it…♫

The young lady shows uncommon sense of values in a society where every image on a phone screen is scream worthy

I think kids always like seeing what machines do. I don’t think technology has changed that.

The real change is in the parenting. What kid is so unsupervised today that he or she can go adventuring by railroad tracks? Those kids probably envy Miss Olsen just for being able to enjoy unsupervised outdoor play.

Growing up in New Orleans, we put pennies on the streetcar tracks.

An early scene in Pollyanna shows Jimmy Bean (actor Kevin Corcoran) placing a small length of chain on the tracks just before the train with Pollyanna and her Aunt Polly arrives.

gee no fun for Canadian kid since the penny’s gone. Our bank doesn’t take rolls anymore, we get a bag and they roll them. Curious since that particular bank, TD pulled all their change counters. The internal machines, probably Brandt, are reliable and accurate, but they work differently from the consumer version.

Never put coins on tracks – they were for candy and ice cream back then. We used the tracks as balance beams to walk along.

How did any of us survive childhood? Well, we didn’t do it alone (had to show off to someone), and the trains going through the neighborhood made plenty of noise…

Let’s just go with “God looks after fools and children”.

We put down a quarter once, which was a fortune to a kid in the 60s, but we figured the end result would be worth the cost. Well, it must have stuck to a wheel because there was nothing there after the train went by. Never tried that again, with a quarter, anyway. We did lots of pennies.

I was on a Boy Scout camping trip in the 1970s. Right next to the campground was a train track, and trains would go by every hour or so. (It made sleeping difficult.) One of the men stood guard, and made sure we were all well away from the track when a train was coming. By the end of the trip we didn’t have any un-flattened pennies left.

Since I remember this 40+ years later, it was definitely better than almost all the movies I saw back then.

But the train don’t run by here no more;

Poor poor pitiful me.

tracks were 200 ft from my friends house did it all the time had a pocket full of them now you have to pay to get it done at the Museum’s still have them

There’s an observation somewhere in here about entropy, but I’m too lazy to think of it.

Frazz 11 hrs ·

If there’s not an app for your phone that simulates a train running over a penny you virtually set on a railroad track, there soon will be now that I’ve mentioned it while having neither the skills nor the inclination to make a useless app. And that app, when it comes out, will probably do nearly as good a job of replicating the dopamine jolt that human emotion interprets as happiness.

It’s astonishing, the ease with with which mundane events (ding! incoming text!) generate a squirt of the pleasure hormone, and with such frequency. Which makes it puzzling that so much of the population is depressed.

Hmm. I don’t think I’m up for creating an app, but I might have just described my profession a little.

I did this too. But I wasn’t so hard up for entertainment that I’d stand there and watch it happen!

What a lot of people doen’t realize is that you can buy a gift card for a specific amount. At Border’s we’d handle special orders for people who didn’t have Credit Cards or didn’t want to use their credit cards on line. We’d run the order all the way to check out on the computer and figure the exact amount for the order and then send them to a checkout to purchase a generic gift card (instead of a prepared gift card) for the exact amount of the order and then use the gift card to pay for the special order. You’d be surprised how many people considered this to be “too much work” to place their order and decided to pass on the book.

Frazz and Plainwell are presented as approachable enough, but it’s hard to imagine the kids or Mrs. Olsen wanting to interact with each other outside of school situations. For most of my school years, encountering my teachers outside of school was just weird.

Why do so many people seem to think that SOME comics would be funnier if they were more true to life, yet have no problem with a cat that loves coffee and hates Mondays?