Frazz by Jef Mallett for June 26, 2020

At my age, my knees go out more often than I do.

Or they take something else.

My son would prefer that y’all not kill dandelions: They bloom early and bees can use the help.

As for me, I’m happy for him to keep his dandelions, but I prefer to try to keep them down to a level where I can still see lawn between the leaves.

Remember the classics. Your students surely won’t.

I’m getting up – eventually

“Little help here!”

What’s in Olson’s bucket?

shouldn’t you take the break when you reach the top? or halfway up

Ah! a ripe dandelion, reminds me of the beautiful Larousse logo, and their slogan “je sème à tout vent”. When people mention books that influenced them in youth, for me, that’s one of them.

What Frazz says in the final panel seems like a play on some quotation, but I must confess total cluelessness on what it might be. Can someone explain?

@cervelo: That is a nice remembrance.

I’m sad to lower the tone, but sad to say, the French statement above also seems to relate directly to Buttercup’s approach to the presidency. Basically chaque fois que le vent souffle [Whenever the wind blows] defines Buttercups character to a tee. It also reminds me of the word souffle pronounced sooflay, a pastry filled with air and likely to deflate at the mildest increase in pressure.

You know you’re getting old when you stoop to tie your shoes and wonder what else you can do while you’re down there. – George Burns

Little Jimmy Dickens?

He certainly straightened out Mrs Olsen.

I love dandelions, and even more when I get to the fluff for wishes.

I learn a lot of new words reading the comics :)

A weeding mishap was the end of my grandmother’s independence. At 95 she fell, rake in hand, breaking her wrist and completely forgetting how it happened. A passerby got her up and called an ambulance. We had to put her in a home after that.

Something which sometimes saddens me is the ever-decreasing number of people who get Firesign Theater references.