Frazz by Jef Mallett for December 04, 2020

‘Changes in latitudes, Changes in attitudes.’

Just ruminate on how a cow would see it.

It only works with Fahrenheit.

The larger the attitude, the smaller the latitude.

A little longitude would stretch your attitude.

45° is either uncomfortably hot or incredibly cold.

“It’s these changes in latitudes, changes in attitudes

Nothing remains quite the same

With all of our running and all of our cunning

If we couldn’t laugh we would all go insane"

— Jimmy Buffet, “Changes in Latitudes, Changes in Attitudes”

And in the 5th panel, Rat hits Jef the Cyclist over the head with a broom.

Latitude and Longitude are the sexagesimal system, and comes from Sumeria, and the beginnings of human civilization. Fahrenheit is decimal, based on 0 to 100. So is Centigrade of course, but Fahrenheit is based around the comfort of the human body, Centigrade is based around the temperature of water. Which is why Fahrenheit makes a lot more sense if what you’re trying to find out is whether or not you need a jacket.

I stick my head out the front door. It’s an infallible indicator of how to dress.

Funny, we are at 45 degrees north and we get both ends of the spectrum.

45 is a lousy president with 47 days to go.

@comicboyz But Buttercup, Ha’Pence, and company still keep their hot air furnaces stoked and belching verbal pollution all over the country. That won’t change until some other caretaker arrives to shake the grate

45 degrees is relative, but if you change it to an absolute temperature, it’s still true.

Here in Arizona, we don’t use the word ‘hot’ until it reaches 100F. And ‘oppressively hot’ is around 110. Somehow I think “red cheeks cold” happens long before you hit 20 below.

45 is either smart like a fox or simply insane…. either way, out in January.

Only in America, Liberia or Myanmar would a comic like this about temperature make sense. Interesting that Liberia and Myanmar are in the process of moving out of dictatorship toward democracy, where America seems to be moving the other direction.

Also some longitude.

Is that a Jimmy Buffett shirt on Frazz? Supports the song references.

Hah! Hah! =_________=

By my figuring, on the Fahrenheit scale, red-cheeks cold is about 32, and oppressively hot is over 80. That would put the halfway point around 56, so Caulfield’s off by at least 11 degrees. Your mileage or thermal preference may vary.

Nonetheless, nice pun, Mr. Mallett.

Seems unusual for a darker-skinned person to like colder temperature than me.

45 degrees is half way between a lot of temperatures. Are we to assume 0-90? My Mom would just be getting warm at 90; and goes Eskimo below 60.

Love wordplay.

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Frazz17 hrs · Now that I’ve opened this particular can of worms, I wonder how closely that shakes out. If you find a point where the average (or median, maybe that’ll work better) temperature is 90 degrees Fahrenheit, how close is it to the Equator? Same with an average or median temperature of 0F. How close to the pole? Is the point where the average temperature is 45 close to halfway between?

I could look it up, but I won’t. Not because I’m lazy, but because things like altitude and currents and wind patterns will muck it up hopelessly, and if I’m going to go off on a fool’s errand, I can think of better ones. You gotta choose your fool’s errands wisely.

We are tilted at a 23.5° gives us variable weather. If we had a 0° axis of tilt we would have bands of specific temperature and weather an probably no intelligent life. Much like how Jupiter looks today.

They’re probably connected on the equinoxes when it can be 45° at 45°…

He’s got a point. 45º F in the early spring is taking off coats weather after a hard winter.

I’m surprised to see oblique political partisanship here; “45” clearly refers to someone specific….