Frazz by Jef Mallett for July 05, 2015
July 04, 2015
July 06, 2015
Transcript:
Caulfield: Did you know: Before the first Independence Day, there were no fireworks? I mean, there were, but they weren't called "fireworks," until 1777, they were called "rockets". Frazz: Well, that's mighty useful. Caulfield: I'm here to help. Frazz: What did they call those people who light them off all night, every night, for half the summer? Caulfield: I bet it would've been "dorks" then, too.
Squizzums almost 9 years ago
Philistines.
puggles almost 9 years ago
Dorks it too nice. I don’t mind the fireworks all around the neighborhood for a night or two if the people setting them off are responsible, but the carelessness for other people’s property and setting off M80’s all day long for a month is ridiculous.
jessegooddoggy almost 9 years ago
Low life morons is more like it.
matzam Premium Member almost 9 years ago
no more dorkier than those that sit & watch
Thehag almost 9 years ago
Nice sky, looks just like what I saw last night.
DLF3275 almost 9 years ago
Nice cartoon (especially the artworks!) but not actually true…. “The king would have me present the princess, sweet Chuck, with some delightful ostentation, or show, or pageant, or antique, or firework.” —Shakespeare, Love’s Labour’s Lost, VI.I.107.
skyriderwest almost 9 years ago
Back then, they were still killing whales. And a dork is, and always has been, the name for a male whale’s genitalia.
switchblade_0 almost 9 years ago
Far more polite than the words I use to describe those people.
Marisa Ruffolo Premium Member almost 9 years ago
I agree!
Jennifer Kendzior almost 9 years ago
What beautiful art today. Those fireworks are almost as pretty as real ones.
luvdafuneez almost 9 years ago
Sounded like a war zone in my neighborhood, last night (seriously). Fireworks are illegal here (firecrackers, M-80’s and the like are felonies) but the law is not enforced. Then again, neither are the traffic laws (sigh).
Kind&Kinder almost 9 years ago
There are times I feel I would like to fire a rocket up the butt of the naughty, naughty people who explode M-80’s at 1:00 a.m. If I sound cranky, I am! Love fireworks, though.
bagbalm almost 9 years ago
They caught our roof on fire.
JanLC almost 9 years ago
I used to live six blocks from Disneyland. Every evening at 9 PM, all year long, came the noise from the fireworks. When they first started in 1961, they were exciting and we all ran outside to watch. By the time my Dad died in 2009, it was “oh dear, fireworks. Turn up the volume on the TV.”
hippogriff almost 9 years ago
Night-Gaunt49: Congreve designed his artillery rocket a generation later. Fireworks were called “illuminations” back then. See John Adams statement on how July second should be celebrated. The term, “fireworks” existed, note Hyden’s Royal Fireworks piece a generation earlier, but a pyrotechnic performance was usually called illuminations.
FrankTAW 9 months ago
Fireworks weren’t always fired up into the air. Sometimes they were strapped to a frame, and set off in sequence to make pictures. Eventually this was deemed too dangerous.