The term “Texas” may refer to it’s size; it generally fills up a whole cookie sheet. Another theory is that the recipe first appeared in a Texas newspaper.
There was a “Calvin and Hobbes” where he was asking his dad about the “halcyon days”. Dad theorized that they are issued retroactively after you grow up.
Again from my book of anecdotes: an actress once told Alfred Hitchcock that she couldn’t film the current scene because she could not find the proper motivation to act it out. Hitchcock listened politely, and told her, “…then fake it.”
As “Frazz” is centered in Bryson Elementary, Mallett tends to draw out the school year as long as he can.