Frazz by Jef Mallett for April 04, 2012

So that’s what happened to Mrs. Olson when she stopped hawking Folgers!

Well, she still drinks coffee that doesn’t work… It is just a habit.Just like sending the kid to the principal’s office to stop him asking questions. “When will they ever learn, when will they eeeeeever learn” (Thanks Bob)

I really like Mrs Olsen!

Frugade…. it’s not that it doesn’t work…it’s that it doesn’t work as well…but you’re more hooked…So if you stop drinking it… you’ll sink to lower depths than before you ever tried it….sleepwalk through your days….arms outstretched…..cooofffffeeeeee…..oh…I mean…. so I’ve heard…

Old Wolf, good one..

Nope, her brain’s already used to his questions, and yet she still handles it the old way….just like the coffee….

The flowers came from Pete Seeger, not Bob Dylan. Bob wrote Blowin’ in the Wind, which is where all the flowers went. After Pete Seeger wrote it, the song became the anthem for the anti-war protest movement in the early 1960s.

And “Don’t panic.”

I gave up coffee for a six year span. THREE days as a ZOMBIE. Quitting smoking was easier. Back to coffee for last 17 years. "Toons and coffee = my only vices!

What she needs to do is stop the coffee for a couple weeks… then once she starts again, it’ll work again. Granted, she may feel like death for those weeks between the puking, headaches, and shaking, but the coffee will work again! ;-)The lesson? Don’t start doing drugs or you won’t want to stop no matter how bad it gets. :-s

I never got sent to the principal for it, but my 6th grade teacher complained to my parents that I was “challenging her authority” — actually I was seeking answers that she couldn’t provide. For example, our textbook said Mt. Everst was 29,002 feet high; but our1940-vinatge encyclopedia at home said it was 29,028 feet high. I asked “Why are there two different numbers for the same height, and which is right?”Her answer was “the textbook is right.”Many years later, as an engineering student in college, I learned the true answer: 29,002 was the original 1856 measurement (actually it was 29,000 feet, but the surveyors added 2 feet (well within the accuracy of their difficult measurements) to ensure that it would not look like a mere “guesstimate”). The 29,028 feet measurement was from a later survey. I have long wondered why my teacher didn’t send me to the library to find the answer and then report on it.

By my Life, many of us all over the Universe agree with Everything you have said in this comment.

Poor Mrs. Olson…