Frazz by Jef Mallett for October 09, 2024

The phrase “roly polymath” doesn’t trip lightly from the tongue because it sounds like role-y polly-math. It does work nicely in print though. Maybe something with a parrot??

Panel #2, is he pointing to the teacher while telling the class about Franklin who is a rotund person?

Roly poly methods only work with cats!

That seems to be aimed at Pearls Before Swine.

Monkeys with typewriters

and that was not a good payoff.

All those roly-poly guys sitting around thinking.

Is Roly-Poly math a thing? I from Michigan originally and never once did I have a class in Roly Poly Math. What did I miss out on!?!?

Roly polymath. Never heard the term before but makes for interesting reading. Lots of well known and not-so famous names.

Tell that to Stephan Pastis when he does one of his weekend Pearls Before Swine extended puns!

Try telling that to Ferdinand Feghoot, Mrs. Olsen.

They’re called Pill Bugs, Doodle Bugs, or Wood Lice – though they’re not bugs but terrestrial crustaceans related to crayfish

The FDA is letting the food corporations kill Americans.

My husband and I are in our 70’s, and we have been slowly gaining dangerous belly weight over the decades while eating the same foods.

At least we thought we were eating the same foods. As it turns out the ingredients in a LOT of the food we were eating had changed over the years. When we looked at the ingredients of chips, cereals, etc. from the 1970’s and what they are now, it was a totally different product. Check it out, it’s shocking.

We cut out processed foods by about 90% from our diet, and the processed foods we do eat we make sure the ingredients are whole foods. It is more expensive but the results were dramatic. He lost over 50 pounds of mostly belly fat and I lost over 20 pounds.

My a1c also went down.

Franklin was definitely a polymath.

Is Caulfield trying to coin a portmanteau word? Roly-poly plus polymath?

I’m guessing Mrs Olsen has never seen someone do “The Aristocrats”.

Just a note, that has nothing to do with today’s strip: I caught a 1989 episode of “Highway To Heaven” this morning. Michael Landon’s angel character was undercover as a school maintenance man, who helped the kids , in a very Frazz type manner….maybe an inspiration ?

Caulfield has really not learned what doesn’t work about some of the pun strips in Pearls Before Swine.