Frazz by Jef Mallett for February 26, 2012
February 25, 2012
February 27, 2012
Transcript:
Girl: What's that thing Frazz: It's a kiwi fruit Girl: It looks like a big, hairy goose egg. Frazz; Good eye. It was called a chinese gooseberry until 1953. Girl: No wonder! Frazz: Oh, that's nothing compared to what marketers did with fish. Would you want to eat a slimehead? Or a patagonian toothfish? Neither did anybody elsem until they started calling them orange roughy and chilean sea bass. Now they're so popular they're at risk of being overfished. Girl: I mean no wonder it's all green inside. Frazz: No, no. They renamed the whole species.
V-Beast over 12 years ago
Same with humans. Back in ‘53 I would’ve been an old fogie, but these days marketing has renamed me as a Senior Citizen.
lipophilia over 12 years ago
Those are nothing compared to Canola oil – made from rapeseed.
lemon868 over 12 years ago
@GatoCat—hopefully you’re not, as I am one year older and likelier to be green!
Kadedee over 12 years ago
I got 10 Kiwis in my Bountiful Basket this week. www.bountifulbaskets.org
Dr. Midnight over 12 years ago
Yeah, the marketing guys didn’t think “Rapeseed Oil” would sell well either. That’s how we ended up with Canola. True story.
VikThor over 12 years ago
same here.
YatInExile over 12 years ago
Who else got Brevity in their e-mail? Again.
CIpressa over 12 years ago
I got Brevity, too!
Varnes over 12 years ago
I love Kiwis!
ZEPP Premium Member over 12 years ago
Kudos for the “I say it’s spinach…” reference in the throwaway. It’s from way before my time, but one I’ve known since the ’50s!
rekam Premium Member over 12 years ago
How green must my innards be at 74? Or my brother’s at 79?
sizer99 over 12 years ago
Whenever I get Brevity in the email I briefly think Mallett’s really let himself slip.
tsandl over 12 years ago
It’s still called a Chinese gooseberry in places where the European gooseberry is a popular fruit. They share some similarities in their appearance—hairy skin, green flesh, full of small black seeds…
Still Teaching 40+ over 12 years ago
This is the second Sunday in a row I got Brevity, are they trying to maraket more strips?
Dry and Dusty Premium Member over 12 years ago
Good afternoon to all you moldy old senior citizens born in 1953. I keep forgetting though, to ask for all those senior citizen discounts. Imagine how much money I could potentially save? I guess there are some benefits, I suppose . . . .
hippogriff over 12 years ago
Dr. Midnight: Correct. It was called rape because the way it would take over a wheat field. Then they discovered a use for it more valuable than wheat. “A weed is a plant for which we have yet to find a use.” “A weed is any plant where you don’t want it. A rose bush is a weed in a wheat field and wheat is a weed in a rose garden.”
lmchildress over 12 years ago
I don’t see the throwaway panel here… what did it say?
rboydstun Premium Member over 12 years ago
Love Frazz. Am glad to know I’m not the only one who got DeFrazzed today.
Rick Smith Premium Member over 12 years ago
Why do I have Brevity in my mycomicspage email instead of Frazz?
hippogriff over 12 years ago
pschearer: The etymological meaning is to seize, which is the first step in any rape.
kageyb over 12 years ago
Where is Tuesday’s?? Not even a substitute?