Frazz by Jef Mallett for May 11, 2012

“This old family recipe has an antidote that goes with it.”

ANOTHER reason I really like this strip!Thanks for another good start to my day!

Not many kids would. Because the kids that would are being diagnosed as ADD and ADHD and drugged into good little dolts.

Remember “Be A-Lert…American needs Lerts…”

Be a dolt. Koch and the Tea Party…need dolts.

No excuse to be rude…He should have let her finish her story first……

She was setting him up to get the right answer, testing him. She’s not so dumb either…

And Frazz has become the anti imaginative.

I wonder how many immediately surfed to the eggcorn database to find out the frequency of usage for “amusing antidote?”

http://eggcorns.lascribe.net/

OK, there’s “anec-” and there’s “anti-” which brings us to the question: what is a “dote”?

I love how Mallet so often writes the strips like an essay: there’s the setup, the middle, and the ending panel that refers back to the opening.

And that ending panel is so very often a pun all its own. Very well done.

Nice one, jef

He ain’t-a-dolt either, though that bad English…

lert? There is I-LERT. That’s Inter-Lutheran Emergency Response Team – encouraging individuals and congregations to prepare for emergencies/disasters. If individuals and congregations aren’t prepared, they can’t help others. An emergency supply of food & water is an antidote for hunger and thirst.

Jeff,

I continue to be amused, made thoughtful, and wonderfully entertained by Frazz. I hope you know how much of a positive impact the smiles you create lift us up each day. Well done!

Jim in Plano, TX

i dont understand it, how can an anecdote be about an anecdote, wouldnt there have to be a story within a story?