Frazz by Jef Mallett for April 13, 2012

No, he did not skip a step and he did show his work.

Thanks to my husband from Michigan, I know exactly where he is talking about.. :)

Showing your Metro Detroit roots there, Jeff!

By the way, I was recommended to your strip as “Calvin, all grown up as a janitor, cyclist, and mentor.” Looks pretty much dead on, from what I have seen. Thanks for the great work!

A friend of mine used to live near 16 Mile. Traveled that road often when I was visiting that side of the state. (It’s also called it Big Beaver Road).

Us music nerds will gladly give you a ‘stinger’ here for your trains and the bee’s pain…

you don’t think it is a funny take on story problems? Substitute your own local street names.also, @ ashburn stadium, you forgot to mention 8 mile returns to the suburbs and ends at the lakeand @bdaysuit, remember 16 Mile is also Metropolitan Parkway, Big Beaver Rd. (with exit 69 — Hey I don’t make this stuff up), Quarton Rd. and Walnut Lake Rd. A road with an identify crisis.

i don’t get it. “and that’s why” why what?

non-euclidean

The answer, my friend, is 42, and it’s blowing in the wind.

The next question on the test is “How many lives does Schrodinger’s cat have?” I’m still going with 42. You can’t go wrong with the classics.

Ashburn Stadium – 8 mile ends up in Lake St. Clair at the Grosse Pointe Yacht Club, hardly the slums of Detroit.

Oh yes…How far will the bee fly until it passes of unnatural causes.We mathematicians make jokes. Others make jokes about us. Ah, well. It’s the Circle of Math…

Life, the universe, and all the other places too.

The point of the strip is that Caulfield didn’t do the math (show his work). It doesn’t matter if what he wrote down makes sense to the reader or not, the point is that he didn’t do the math.