Girl: Mr. Spaetzle: What did people your age do before the internet? Mr. Spaetzle: Think, Chloe. Girl: No, thanks. I'll just plug it into a search engine. Mr. Spaetzle: No, no, chloe. Thinking is what we did.
And still many than still believed whatever they where told was true. So even with the falsehoods on the internet the odds of learning the truth are about even.
Oh, yeah. We thought. We thought so much and so carefully that we killed over 100 million people in a 30 year period – and that’s just the direct deaths. Oh, yeah, we did a really good job of thinking before the Internet came along! For sure!
Anytime GuardSGT can prove his birth certificate and draft registration are NOT forgeries, using the same criteria he’s willing to allow Obama to use, I’ll give him the time of day. Till then, forget it.
I’m with GorgoloChick. “Frazz” is all about an educational environment full of gentleness, good humor, and good will. You’ll notice Mallett never calls anybody “stupid” or lets the kids do so. For an “adult” atmosphere of political-opinion shark attacks, toddle on back to Doonesbury and other strips whose readers are more interested in exchanges of partisan venom!
I continue to be amazed at those who: 1) take an innocent remark from a comic strip (let me repeat that: a COMIC STRIP) and turn it into an excuse to vent their politically based vitriol which bears zero relationship to the cartoon; and 2) insist that whatever evils are committed in the name of politics are only committed by the “other side”. Nearly all of the nastiness directed toward either side by the other usually is in regard to something done by both.
smetlavich over 12 years ago
Whatever.
Agent54 over 12 years ago
And still many than still believed whatever they where told was true. So even with the falsehoods on the internet the odds of learning the truth are about even.
Mowalski over 12 years ago
So true.
TheSkulker over 12 years ago
Of course Limbaugh, Breitbart, Faux News and the entire GOP spin machine only speak the truth! Right!
cabalonrye over 12 years ago
Of course you have to know how to search, which is a skill that is barely surviving to non existent in the youngest generation.
Milessio over 12 years ago
I’m surprised she didn’t tweet & post on FB first.
Varnes over 12 years ago
Think, thought, thank? Have thunk?
rugeirn over 12 years ago
Oh, yeah. We thought. We thought so much and so carefully that we killed over 100 million people in a 30 year period – and that’s just the direct deaths. Oh, yeah, we did a really good job of thinking before the Internet came along! For sure!
rugeirn over 12 years ago
Anytime GuardSGT can prove his birth certificate and draft registration are NOT forgeries, using the same criteria he’s willing to allow Obama to use, I’ll give him the time of day. Till then, forget it.
Kroykali over 12 years ago
Apparently Jef Mallett couldn’t have her say, “I’ll just Google it.”
annieb1012 over 12 years ago
I’m with GorgoloChick. “Frazz” is all about an educational environment full of gentleness, good humor, and good will. You’ll notice Mallett never calls anybody “stupid” or lets the kids do so. For an “adult” atmosphere of political-opinion shark attacks, toddle on back to Doonesbury and other strips whose readers are more interested in exchanges of partisan venom!
exaltedwombat over 12 years ago
Other sources of information have told some pretty big lies too! I wonder if some people argued against public libraries? :-)
Potrzebie over 12 years ago
FIVE STARS! *
hippogriff over 12 years ago
exaltedwombat: I have seen enough self-appointed censors who try (and often succeed) to keep the truth out of libraries.
TELawrence over 12 years ago
Actually, what we did was read.
Kroykali over 12 years ago
Right. Copy.
childe_of_pan over 7 years ago
I continue to be amazed at those who: 1) take an innocent remark from a comic strip (let me repeat that: a COMIC STRIP) and turn it into an excuse to vent their politically based vitriol which bears zero relationship to the cartoon; and 2) insist that whatever evils are committed in the name of politics are only committed by the “other side”. Nearly all of the nastiness directed toward either side by the other usually is in regard to something done by both.