Frazz by Jef Mallett for September 18, 2023

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    Rhetorical_Question   about 1 year ago

    Disrespectful?

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    gduncan58  about 1 year ago

    What a coincidence, I just finished watching season 1 one Vinland Saga on Prime Video! Pretty good anime if you are into it.

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    robinafox  about 1 year ago

    That’s what she thought. Detention for Caulfield!

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    mrwiskers  about 1 year ago

    Some subjects taught in school, are complex in their entirety. To understand them, you need to break them into understandable parts that are scaffolded. I remember missing a week of school. It was mid semester and I found I was completely lost in Algebra I class. It was then I realized I was missing the brain cells needed to easily master mathematics. I just couldn’t bridge the gap between where I left off and what was being taught upon my return. I told my teacher, Mr. L, and he tutored me after school until I caught up. I was lucky to have even earned a C in the class even with all the extra work. It must not have stuck though, because I had to take re medial Algebra II as a college freshman. So Caufield, pay attention!

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    ewaldoh  about 1 year ago

    Right On, mrwiskers; math and most of the sciences are scaffolded (or laddered) just that way. In literature or history classes, you can blow off a novel or war and still walk through a final exam leaving a hole in your knowledge.

    But consider a shop class where building an extension ladder happens to be interrupted by an illness and you just miss those couple days where everyone else added the pulley & rope and you just ignored catching up. Or you could just have missed adding the 6th thru 10th rungs.

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    goboboyd  about 1 year ago

    I did that a lot. I often wonder what I missed.

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    Uncle Bob  about 1 year ago

    We had a real good public library full of nonfiction a couple blocks away from our house. They let me take out ten books at a time. My homework suffered…

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    hmofo813 Premium Member about 1 year ago

    Longship, not “longboat.” Those are two very different types of watercraft, and there is no such thing as a Viking longboat. It’s a very common mistake, but I would have expected Mallett to get it right.

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    sandpiper  about 1 year ago

    Caulfield has it right. I grew up in an era where if something was needed we tried to make it before we spent money for it. If something broke, we tried to fix it so we could at least complete the current job. Then we either had it repaired or, regretfully, replaced it. Nothing we needed and used once was ever thrown away, unless use consumed it. We found other uses for it where possible. Yes, it meant filling space with things used only rarely, but it was the way of it in the early decades of the 1900’s. To this day I still take time to think about possible uses for a thing before I will recycle or junk it. There’s no comparison to those times versus current consumer patterns.

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    prrdh  about 1 year ago

    Did you also know that after the Viking period ended, the unemployed shipwrights turned their hands to building stave churches, which were essentially upside-down longships? And that their techniques, if not the craftsmen themselves, migrated as far south as the Slovak Carpathians?

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    Vagabond53  about 1 year ago

    Unless you serve on a US Navy submarine or aircraft carrier, which are called “Boats” by their crews. And some small watercraft carried onboard an aircraft carrier are called “gigs”

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    Caldonia  about 1 year ago

    Make him write “I will pay attention in class” 500 times

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    DaBump Premium Member about 1 year ago

    At times like this, he reminds me of me.

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