Frazz by Jef Mallett for September 17, 2018

Coffee= Burnt Bean Juice. YUCK!!!

One of the rare occasions where Frazz’s premise is wrong. Julian Calendar, 46 CE. Coffee in Ethiopia, 1100 CE. Weekends had about a 1000 year head start.

So what are you doing this weekend?

I’m going to kill Ceaser

Et tu Brute?

For Caulfield, adult conversations are a seminar in ways to flummox adults. Like any normal pair of adolescent ears, he will collect everything he hears, then let it out at the most opportune moments.

How did people manage any morning before coffee? That is the real question (for me, anyhow).

Better than solving the wrong problem.

And just what did Mrs. Olsen do on her weekend that she is needing to recover from?? Rough night at bingo?

Coffee-the elixir of life!! (and then there is Pumpkin Spice!!)

Drink Coffee – Do Stupid Things Faster with More Energy

You listening, NIght-Gaunt?

Ya had to bring yer own from home! In a Thermos!! Which saved you MONEY. Unless you forgot to take it home at night.

They drank tea…

M y daughter drinks about twelve cups a day, then lies in bed with her coloring books until bedtime and complains she can’t sleep.

They would remember the Sabbath day and keep it holy, get started on Sunday, and be ready Monday.

Otherwise known as “moving the goalposts”.

Caffeine, nicotine and gasoline the ingredients for life

The really scary thing is the implication that while she can’t handle Mondays before her first cup of coffee… she can handle driving to the coffee shop to get it.

Well, Frazz is no Genesis literalist.

Frazz17 hrs ·

If I read my outside-the-mainstream history right, coffee isn’t the only pharmaceutical breakfast beverage to precede the invention of the weekend. There was much resistance to coffee in Britain for fear of the economic impact of replacing beer as the official greet-the-day cuppa.

That sounds so odd, beer for breakfast, until you remember that good, reliable, available, drinkable water is a fairly recent thing in human history (and looking more and more like a blip). And without the weekend, there was less incentive to drink it Friday evenings.

I wonder if coffee or beer preceded or followed the tendency to pointlessly argue and to cheat for advantage in those pointless arguments. Because I sure sense an association.

Needlessly unpleasant and pedantic in the second panel, Frazz.

If you are asking to get information, and the answer doesn’t give you the information you are looking for, adjusting the question may be the right thing to do.