Frazz by Jef Mallett for May 22, 2013

Sounds like normal kid stuff to me.

Lesson to Principal: You can either get it fast, or get it right!

A fart?

SBDs are trouble, but there is nothing like one that sounds like somebody stepped on a duck in the middle of silent reading time…

Grasshoppers bite? Each summer, my garden is full of grasshoppers with red legs? (if I am remembering correctly), but I never see any damage from them. They must be eating something…I need to look it up.

hah!

Those old metal desks, that had only one side under the seat open where you kept your books, made wonderful amplifiers for an intestinal drum roll.

I’m not sure about “bite,” but the big grasshoppers we used to catch when I was a kid in Delaware would sure pinch! And if you held one too long, he would release a drop of disgusting-looking dark liquid onto your hand.

Some kids got in trouble recently for releasing 10,000 crickets at school for a senior prank. They think it’s “so unfair!” LOL

My dad always called soy sauce, “grasshopper juice.”

That was good

That third panel just cracks me up!

I think the principal was trying hard not to laugh at Caufield’s initial remark.

We used to say they spit tobacco

Tobacco: I even had arguments with those who thought they really chewed tobacco – which wouldn’t even grow in north Texas.

OK—this one made me laugh out loud.

Love the [head-desk] in panel 3, too.

@bigpuma

Thanks for launching the reminiscences about “tobacco juice.” I’d completely forgotten that part. (We called it that, too, now that you bring it up!).

Anyway, as I said first thing this morning, or last thing last night, releasing a grasshopper in the classroom seems like perfectly normal kid stuff to me!

Make me laugh out loud, thanks.

It’s all in how you phrase it. This is the kid whose mother “works the streets to support us.” (Civil engineer)