Frazz by Jef Mallett for February 04, 2003
February 03, 2003
February 05, 2003
Transcript:
"People with small vocabularies are easy to mess with." "Mrs. Olsen, you're looking positively diaphanous today!" "Why, thank you, Caulfield. You are a veritable prince of palter." "I can see right through her." "Don't be so sure."
whiteseal1333 about 11 years ago
Dictionary anyone?
gedjcj Premium Member over 8 years ago
Point, Mrs Olsen.
symphony40 over 6 years ago
It’s the pun at the end that got me, since diaphanous = (1) see-through, or (2) extreme delicacy of form. In panel 2, Caulfield used the second definition as a sarcastic comment, but then he referenced the primary definition in the last panel.