Frazz by Jef Mallett for September 28, 2024

We say that here in Nevada, but it refers to cottonwoods.

What’s next? Octombre?

(I don’t get the joke. Mr. Google didn’t help.)

Or in Vegas where it was 102 today with the same tomorrow and into …infinity. Arrrgh.

Hispanic month?

In central VA the leaves have sort of begun to tint lawns. First good frost, deluge will begin, and the sound of blowers will be heard in the land.

Hear the sound of a Fall(ing) tree — “SepTimber!”

Psithurisma.

It’s also a little different out in the Great American West, where the sound of rustling is shortly thereafter followed by the sound of the posse riding in pursuit.

I’m in Michigan where Wallace is set and I’ve never heard that.

Well since it is September, in Español, farther south not so many rusting leaves. (Yes, I miss those leaves rustling . . . sometimes)

Hey, if you want regional humor, the South can send some your way!

setiembre.

Try to remember that time of Septimbre….

I got the joke, but not why it shouldn’t be gotten in the south (which south?)?

Septimbre!!!! good one

Clever seasonal pun

I’m not sure this is what Mr. Mallett had in mind, but if you pronounce “timbre” as it would sound in French, it sounds a lot like the end of “September”, and “timbre” in French refers to the characteristic sound of something, distinct from pitch and loudness. It also means that in English as a term in acoustics, but it’s pronounced differently. Anyway, on these lines, “Septimbre” would be a clever portmanteau pun, meaning “the sound of September”, i.e. the sound of fall.

The steam coming from the tick infested outhouse? Septicker

Rustling leaves has been surpassed by hurricane force wind and rain! We are sorry!

Septober, Octember, Nowonder, Dismember, all the rest have 31, except my brother-in-law who got 90 days for felonious assault.

“Sep-Timber” is what a lumberjack says when you ask him what month it is while he’s hacking a tree.

i wish you woodn’t do this

Thirty days hath September, April, June, and No Wonder, is what I remember from Pogo…(I wish we had Walt Kelly here now to comment on the election chaos.)

I thought it was pretty clever. Ala’ Frank & Ernest ish.

“timbre is the quality given to a sound by its overtones.” How is that a northern joke In fact, how is it a joker ?

I’m from further down south, and I got it right off. How about easing up on the stereotypes. The Dukes of Hazzard wasn’t a documentary. For every buck tooth idiot I can find down here, I can show you an equally buck tooth moron up north. :-) LOL

oh no we get it. The live oaks shed their leaves twice a year….