Frazz by Jef Mallett for June 25, 2012
June 24, 2012
June 26, 2012
Transcript:
Frazz: It's a nice place to visit, but I wouldn't want to live there. Caulfield: I don't even like to visit there. Mr. Spaetzle: What are you talking about? New York? Las Vegas? Caulfield: The past. Mr. Spaetzle: The past is nice! Caulfield: Maybe for old people . Mine seems to be mostly busy work in stuffy classrooms while it's nice out.
Randy B Premium Member almost 12 years ago
As most people age, their memory of the past is selectively idealized. Caulfield isn’t old enough for that to have happened yet.
cabalonrye almost 12 years ago
I wouldn’t relive my student days even if you paid me for it.
Varnes almost 12 years ago
So you think it gets better when you’re older? Ha!
Varnes almost 12 years ago
BTW, I read some place that the human mind tends to minimize and even forget the bad things in the past…..I think that’s why parents tell me how much fun it is to have kids……
Sportymonk almost 12 years ago
The present isn’t so hot either.
peabodyboy almost 12 years ago
“There ain’t no future in the past.” — Vince Gill
prrdh almost 12 years ago
Caulfield is experiencing the truth of Faulkner’s remark that ‘The past isn’t dead. It isn’t even past’.
CoBass almost 12 years ago
Yeah, I know what you mean. I wish I was 25 again and knew what I know now.Buy Microsoft and Apple, short Enron…
hablano almost 12 years ago
The past is much better because I know what happened (I lived). The future is scary because I don’t know if I’ll live through it.
Mary McNeil Premium Member almost 12 years ago
These’ll be the “good old days” for Caulfield when he gets a job and realizes he can’t treat his boss the way he treats Mrs. Olsen.
childe_of_pan almost 7 years ago
BIGPUMA: Are you for real? We already know you keep reading the strip even though you don’t like it, so you must just like being snarky (mostly eruditely, admittedly), but seriously, do you have any idea how truly petty this post makes you sound? This is a pathetic reach, even for you.
robinafox over 2 years ago
Aww, Mr. Spaetzle! “The past is nice!” What a cutie.