Frazz by Jef Mallett for September 20, 2009

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girl: I don't know what's worse: that I'm so far behind this early in the day, this early in the week, this early in the year or this early in my life. Caulfield: Multiple-choice questions are easy! If you're stuck, always choose C. Unless you've hit on C four times in the past six; then switch to B and hold that pattern as you did with C. But if you've gone more than four answers without an A or a D, choose one over B or C, except for every fourth occurrence, in which case you choose the other. Although if D is "all of the above," you weigh it as if it were B and B as if it were C; then C gets the outlier status D originally had (while still not as dodgy as A). girl: Thanks. A lot. Now I don't know wheter to burp, chirp or wind my watch. Frazz: Oh, now. When there are only three choices, it's a whole new formula.