Frazz by Jef Mallett for April 20, 2021

They’re both more about what THEY are than what they help you be. Though I’m pretty sure that my “smart” phone is as dumb as a box of sand.

It’s called a muscle car because it has usually has more than they guys that buy it.

Original muscle cars had no power steering, power brakes or air conditioning. They also had a manual transmission with a heavy clutch. With no driving aids, you actually needed to know how to drive to control them.

That really was a smart comeback. Nice job, Mrs. Olsen.

Agree with Frazz. But Caulfield usually gets her allusions and improves them. This time he missed the obvious. Proves precociousness can be a sometimes thing.

The original muscle cars were heavy and came without power assists, you REALLY had to use your muscles to drive them. The modern “muscle cars”, not so much.

I’ll tell the grandkids to ask the “ phone of knowledge. “

There are certainly issues with smart phones. But as an older person who has done without most of his life and knows when to put it down, I think it’s the cat’s a$$!

And I read all your strips on my laptop because newspapers, which are meant to be enjoyed during moments of leisure, are too inconvenient during these busy times.

Obviously Caufield knows nothing about shoehorning a 426 Hemi V-8 into a ‘63 Plymouth Valiant coupe, bolting on dual quad carbs, squeezing custom headers into the remaining mouse hole of an engine compartment, and lifting a four speed tranny into place behind the Hemi then coupling that tranny to a 4:10 positrack rearend. Now you still have to Mount two 16 inch wide racing slicks and custom rims to the transaxle.

I have a follow-down question:

How do we follow a holy duck with a down gown that won’t KLUCK?

Artificial intelligence, artificial brawn.

General Motors is credited by some as introducing the first “intentional” muscle car in 1949, when it put its 303 CI Rocket V8 from its full-sized luxury car 98 model into the considerably smaller and lighter Oldsmobile 88. But it would be some 15 years later before the term “muscle car” came into use.

Point goes to Mrs. Olson!

Mrs. Olsen may be old and somewhat burned out, but she can be as sharp as a scalpel when she wants to be! To be honest, I think she takes it easy on Caulfield most of the time. It wouldn’t be difficult for her to shut down his off-topic answers. She chooses to allow them.

Jef Mallett’s Vlog BlogFrazz 17h · I may have written my notes on an iPad, finished this strip in Photoshop, sent it to the syndicate over the Internet, written about it and posted it on Facebook. But I thought it up the old-fashioned way, not with an algorithm on a smartphone, but through a series of synapses in my average brain. I think I’ll stick with that system.

Stealth zinger there!