Frazz by Jef Mallett for June 20, 2012

I met Jerry Ford shortly after he left office. Very nice and unpretentious guy, and I don’t recall him as being particularly gassy. (I’m pretty sure I would remember if he had been.)

I almost slid my Cessna 150 into Ford’s plane at Kalamazoo. The SS were on me like fly’s on sh**

I don’t know if i would recognize a communist homosexual as such even if I wasn’t chewing gum.

Ford and Lincoln are both brands, not models. There was, however, a Marmon Roosevelt which actually was named after Teddy.

How do you chew gum from a distance?

The original Marmons were cars – one of them won the 1911 Indy – but the company was a casualty of the Great Depression. The reborn Marmon-Herrington was indeed a truck manufacturer, with a side business making car parts for other manufacturers.

Ford was many things and sometimes came acrost as inept but, Johnson was so bad he got 58000 BETTER MEN than him killed by his stupidity. Johnson should be dug up and hung from the highest tree available then fed to the pigs. Vietnam vet’s feelings.

There were Marmon automobiles before there were Marmon trucks. A Marmon Wasp won the very first Indianapolis 500 mile race in 1911.

Pierce-Arrows, anyone?

ronaldwball: If Eisenhower had permitted free elections, an ex-US Army captain would have won and formed a Tito-like buffer between China and Malaya/Indonesia. The Vietnam war was because Texico and Shell feared for their oil leases (which they still have under the current communist government; and turned out to be well under productivity estimates). Blame them and the “awl bidness” control of this nation rather than their puppets.

Mitsubushi “Polk” and “Carter”, though the Carter is a pickup truck.

@ledzepplin. If you meant a red cigarette, you could have said so. Or is the red fag a red-faced British student who is all tired out from doing menial tasks for another?

Who exactly is the “dumb” character in this strip who gets put down? Not the kids; they all love Frazz and get along fine with him. Not Miss Plainwell; Frazz has a crush on her. Not Mr. Burke or Mr. Spaetzle. Only Mrs. Olsen, who is a teacher and is supposed to be educating the kids. Here you have an authority figure who is supposed to be well-educated but is incompetent at her job. Her students come across as brilliant by comparison.

She’s like Ted Baxter on the old Mary Tyler Moore Show. or Frank Burns on M*A*S*H. They may have some sympathetic moments, but they’re mainly there to be laughed at because they’re dumb.

Thou speakest the truth. Especially on the editorials; comments there are full of wingnuts (both sides) trying to prove their superiority through name-calling and vicious ad hominem attacks.

bigpuma has a bug in his bonnet about this strip.It’s been noted before.

Perhaps he should stay away from it if it still bothers him.