Frazz by Jef Mallett for February 20, 2013

While I agree that Frazz is a Mary Sue character, I really don’t get an “I am smarter/better than you” vibe from Jef Mallett. In this strip, if anything he’s assuming you’re as smart as he is, which is rather the opposite, isn’t it?

As far as I am concerned; this strip has done it’s job! It gave ME a smile for my money!

I didn’t get a Winter or a Spring Break. I got a Christmas and an Easter vacation. Although the Christmas vacation usually lasted 2 weeks, the Easter vacation was only one week. Then one year we moved just around Easter. The first school’s vacation was the week before Easter, the second school’s was the week after. A two week vacation around Easter was lovely!

Don’t forget, they want to take away summer vacation, to make the school year longer, so they can teach the kids even less.

Not sure I get the entropy reference. If he means everything evening out, does it have to do with spacing out the break between Christmas and summer vacation?

Yeah, middle school puzzled me for a long time. The public school system had elementary (K-6), jr. high (7-9), and high school (10-12). -—————————————————Had few defined breaks at all. There was Christmas break, various “days off” (including Good Friday and the first day of deer season) and snow days. Usually everything came out about even. If there wasn’t enough snow (seldom), we went to the last day. If that took over the statuatory minimum, I can’t remember anyone caring.

What this strip needs is some bodily noise humor.

Chaze126, bigpuma – Assuming they know something is the opposite of talking down to someone. Also, it seems unlikely that Mallet would be deliberately trying to alienate his audience, though you are right that he’s probably not aiming for the least common denominator (thank godlike being).

BigPuma still reads this strip?

It is funny how people that enjoy being hypercritical and always focusing on the negative fail to see the reflection they are looking at.