Frazz by Jef Mallett follows the adventures of an unexpected role model: an elementary-school janitor who's also a Renaissance man. While he's sweeping the hall, he's whistling Beethoven. Or Lyle Lovett. He paints the woodwork in the classrooms; he paints a Da Vinci on the cafeteria wall. He's a trusted authority figure who is every kid's buddy. He took the janitor's job while he was a struggling songwriter, and when he finally sold a hit song, he decided to stay on at school. Frazz appears in 200 newspapers worldwide, including the Los Angeles Times, Seattle Times, Chicago Tribune and Detroit News. "A few years back, I wrote and illustrated a children's book," says Mallett. "When I was traveling around reading it at school assemblies, I noticed that often, the most respected, best-liked grown-up in the building was the janitor. And I thought, 'Hmm, there's a comic strip in that.'" Often praised for its intelligent wit, gentle spirit and effortless diversity, Frazz won a Wilbur Award from the Religion Communicators Council in 2003 and 2005 for excellence in communicating values and ethics.
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Varnes said, 7 months ago
I think I might need a little help with this one…….
Randy_B
said, 7 months ago
It’s a Henry Ford quote.
(Olds was also an auto pioneer – Oldsmobile and REO were named for him.)
exoticdoc2 said, 7 months ago
False statement. The graveyards are full of people who thought they could…but couldn’t.
Varnes said, 7 months ago
exoticdoc, Here hold my beer. Watch this…….
Nabuquduriuzhur said, 7 months ago
Never mind that little things like the physical world allow for some things and not others. “I will run at light speed!” Ain’t gonna happen. "I will stay awake for 72 days straight. " About day 7, max, that little thing called sleep will insist.
Nabuquduriuzhur said, 7 months ago
How about Danforth’s book “I dare you” instead?
Richard S. Russell said, 7 months ago
The odds of everything are 50%. Either it will happen or it won’t.
Randy_B
said, 7 months ago
@Richard S. Russell
Now I’ve got this mental image of you saying that:
Pacopuddy said, 7 months ago
Aaah! The pointy-haired boss. My hero.
(Actually, Wally is my real hero)
Notsoastute said, 7 months ago
If you think at all, then you are ahead of most of the population.
CasualObserver said, 7 months ago
I just had a mental image of the pointy-haired boss without his pointy-hair. It would be so WRONG!
puddleglum1066 said, 7 months ago
@CasualObserver
In the very early Dilbert strips, the PHB didn’t have pointy hair. Yes, it was very weird. Then again, that boss only acted vaguely managerial-stupid. The classic PHB behavior emerged as the hair grew pointier…
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Those strips are collected in a book called “It’s obvious you won’t survive by your wits alone,” or something close to that.
AshburnStadium said, 7 months ago
@Randy_B
Ransom Eli Olds (1864-1950) was mass-producing cars nearly a decade before Henry Ford. His Curved Dash Olds was built from 1901-1907.
I was at the Oldsmobile Homecoming car show in 2007, and the featured car was the Curved Dash. Near the end of the day, a half-dozen of them had a motorcade around the show grounds- it was incredible to see cars more than a century old operating under their own power!
If you ever get to Lansing, Michigan, I strongly suggest that you visit the R. E. Olds Transportation Museum. They have an 1897 Olds, one of four known to be built, on loan from the Smithsonian Museum. They also have the last Olds built, a 2004 Alero, which was signed both under the hood and under the trunk lid by all of the Oldsmobile employees that were there that day.
AshburnStadium said, 7 months ago
http://www.reoldsmuseum.org
Alexikakos said, 7 months ago
@exoticdoc2
“False statement. The graveyards are full of people who thought they could…but couldn’t.”
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So true…
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http://www.darwinawards.com/darwin/darwin2011.html