Frazz by Jef Mallett for September 04, 2011

Does this mean time has actually passed in this strip, and we’re out of the endless loop where Caulfield is always in her class?

A lot of humor has been derived from that interaction — I’ll miss it.

It gives Caulfield a reason to drive her crazy, which I find more acceptable than when he and Frazz are just smirking at her behavior outside of school.

Caulfield looks the same to me….. I think they’re like Dagwood and Blondie

Always the positive viewpoint

With perpetually-unaging comic strip schoolchildren, we almost never get to see them have that universal First-Day-of-School experience, “sizing up the new teacher” (or that Last-Day-of-School experince, knowing a bad teacher is out of your life forever). Caulfield will never escape Mrs. Olsen, and by the same token he never met her for the first time. Today’s strip only works because Caulfield isn’t explicitly one of the students to whom Mrs. Olsen is introducing herself.

(For what it’s worth, I think “Moby Dick” is fascinating, although I had already been reading for pleasure for years before I tackled it. The first time through, all the chapters about the processes of commercial whaling were a tough slog, but on my second reading I was much more appreciative.)

Before I started high school, a cousin (who went to the same HS) went thru one of his yearbooks with me and told me which teachers to get and which ones to avoid. Very useful info.

Bob Hope was touring Korea (I think) and a GI approached him and said “My dad said to tell you hello.” BH said “Who’s your dad?” The GI said “Oh, you don’t know him. You played for him in 1944 on Guadalcanal.”

At the Comic Expo, the aging William Shatner, in reference to what young Comic Expo fans say to him, “First it was, ‘My dad loves you,’ but now it’s ‘My granddad loves you’!”

I went to the same Junior High school my brother had attended. He warned me about a dreaded teacher. Naturally, I ended up with her too. She would send me on all the errands. So, of course, she gave me a B because I wasn’t there to learn all she was teaching and it affected my test scores.

Alert! Spoiler ahead:The whale wins.

@tsandl: Otherwise the book would have been titled. “Captain Ahab”!

Several students said something like “My grandparents warned me about you.” to my seventh grade math teacher.

Yeah. She taught for that long. RIP Doris Grady