Frazz by Jef Mallett for June 22, 2012

I used to get up at 5:30 every morning for work, but now since I’m doing P90X I’m getting up at 3:30 every morning, and I think I’m nuts!

Whatever floats your boat!

I’d be happy with just the wise thing…

People drive two and a half hours to golf? Are they nuts?

Has anybody noticed that the silliest sports all come from Scotland? To wit: golf, curling and throwing telephone poles the caber.

No wonder there’s a line if it takes him 2 1/2 hours to drive.

At least golf is an excuse for taking a long walk in the fresh air and sunshine. What I’ve never been able to understand is why people spend hundreds of dollars to sit and watch other people play sports.

No, he waits in line 2-1/2 hours to drive.

Hey! got in another round on the bike! I’m a man!

But it’s SOOOOO much easier to hit the big ball, and satisfying to boot!

In regard to the size of Earth, it is approximately 7900 miles in diameter, depending on whether you’re measuring along the N/S axis or at the equator (which is slightly more)

I do know that both Darth Vader and Obi-Wan kenobi were Scotsmen. The proof? Their epic duel aboard the Death Star with light cabers.

I wonder how far that golf ball that the astronaut hit on the moon. Quite frankly, that is definitely my favorite moment in the space program….What a guy thing to do! Way too cool! It may actually be a good reason to remember the United States! Seriously, who else would do that but Americans? I wouldn’t be surprised if beer was involved…Anybody remember the space program? Or was that all a dream?

@Varnes: it didn’t really go all that far, despite Al Shepard’s comment “miles and miles…” The space suit was so restrictive that he had to hold the club with one hand and sort of flail away at the ball (if I recall, he missed it the first time), and when he did make contact it was a sort of sand shot (no tee, of course—and no way he could have bent over far enough to put the ball on it anyway), so it really didn’t have that much velocity. As for whether the space program was a dream… unless we both had the same dreams back in the ‘60s, it was a real thing. I wish we still had one..@Redkaycei Repoc: bagpipes originated somewhere in the Middle East waaaay back in the mists of time. As for kilts, the claim that the Irish invented them is based on one questionable woodcut. Certainly the “man skirt” predates both the Scots and the Irish (see, for instance, Tutankhamen’s tomb paintings). The Scots may have innovated the pleating. But the canonical “wee kilt” turns out to be the invention of a romantic Englishman, the first to separate the around-the-waist part from the over-the-shoulder part, which was valuable because it allowed the pleats to be sewn in.

Stone toss for height.Stand beneath a crossbar and try to chuck a mucking big rock over the bar, remembering to dodge the rock before it conks you in the head or smashes your foot.

True.