Frazz by Jef Mallett for March 01, 2016

How is she still alive?

I thought she gave up the Cigs?

Interesting factoid: The year 2100 will not be a leap year.

Now everyone sorry

I wonder if anyone has ever started smoking, and not regretted it. Personally, I have never regretted not starting to smoke in the first place.

Correct. It’s not a leap year unless it’s evenly divisible by 4 or 400. This was yet-another reason why the Y2K hysteria was overblown: the last year of a century is normally not a leap year, but 2000 was, so all the calendar algorithms simply carried on without change.

Looks like Mrs. Olsen actually participated in Caulfield’s leapday muse. Today she regrets dismissing him so casually.

The purpose of separating speech balloons in cartoons is so they can be easily attributed to the speaker. Failing to separate speech balloons, as in panel 3, makes such attribution confusing and mitigates enjoyment of the strip.

And this is what makes Frazz good. When have the characters of other comics changed?

Garfield never manages to lose weight, Dilbert will always be too socially incompetent to get a date, and Calvin never passes a math test, and Charlie Brown never managed to bring himself to talk to the little red haired girl.

On the other hand, Frazz got up the courage to go running with Ms. Plainwell, Mrs. Olson stopped smoking, Mr. Burke started running and lost weight and kept it off, and Caufield learned to swim.

This makes the strip have a much more hopeful feel, rather than simply an endless cycle of repeating failure and despair that is encountered in most of the others.

I stopped reading Little Dog Lost because of that. Unless the strip is renamed, he’s never going to have a home and that is just too sad for words.

Hubby’s uncle smoked all the time, even after he had part of his lung removed after cancer was discovered. Wanted to die before his wife, and he did.

I saw this joke here before…

That was the year I quit my last cigarette…at age 12.

I quit 22 years ago and the smell when you walk past the cigarette case at Wal Mart still sends the cravings to the brain.

Mission Accomplished!

I quit cigarettes about 25 years ago. There’s no way of knowing, but chances are decent I wouldn’t be writing this now if I hadn’t stopped then. For any of you who might be contemplating quitting, it wasn’t as difficult as I thought it would be – especially with some chemical assistance for the 1st week, and I don’t mean a nicotine patch, although I used those, too.

I smoked 1/3 of a cigarette in my life (shared with siblings). It has been a long time now, but for at least 10 to 15 I would occasionally wake up from dreaming about it.