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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simpsonfan2 said, 6 months ago
Meh. My Grandfather told me about how in the winter of 1942 it got so cold in Michigan in his town that people’s farts froze. There was a path behind his property between the business part of town and a residential neighborhood, a common shortcut. Everyone took to dumping these frozen farts behind his shed. Well, one day it got warm, and a cloud of the thawed farts wafted over the main part of town. Panic ensued, the FBI was called in, etc.
Everyone figured it was the Nazis, due to the town being the site of the nation’s only factory which made military officer’s rank insignias. If they had had to close the plant, chaos in the military would have resulted, endangering the war effort.
Fortunately, locals soon admitted the source of the problem.
TheSkulker
said, 6 months ago
@simpsonfan2
LOL!!!
Sounds like a Garrison Keilor story to me.
Pacopuddy said, 6 months ago
@simpsonfan2
LMSO!
Your grandfather was obviously a wise man – but did he not think of shovelling those farts (or ‘pumps’ as we call them in Geordieland), into sacks and posting them to Berlin f.a.o.Reichs Air Marshal Goering? America’s war would have been over before it started.
Varnes said, 6 months ago
Just don’t let the frozen farts get near the frozen candle flames….
Varnes said, 6 months ago
I, personally, have invented the most efficient weather monitoring tool in the world…I call it the Eitherormeter…It’s a cup of water you set on your picnic table…..Either it freezes or it doesn’t. If it freezes, it’s freezing out. If it doesn’t, it’s just bone chilling cold. It is very accurate….
Varnes said, 6 months ago
BTW, if you blow bubbles in 10º air, they freeze. It’s really cool…..
masterskrain said, 6 months ago
Calvin once asked the most important question ever; “Don’t you hate it when your boogers freeze?”
Leo Autodidact said, 6 months ago
The TRUE determinant of cold is Spit.
If it freezes before it hits the sidewalk it’s COLD!
If you hear a “splat” instead of a “clink” it’s still just “nippy.”
AshburnStadium said, 6 months ago
On January 24, 2004, the flow of water over the dam between Screams Ice Cream & Halloween Shop and the Dam Site Inn stopped running in the little town of Hell (Livingston County), Michigan.
It’s the only time in history that Hell froze over!
AshburnStadium said, 6 months ago
(I have been to Hell and back six times – the Hellions are really nice people)
pschearer
said, 6 months ago
Nose crackling? Why have I never heard of this before? Even if it doesn’t get that cold where I am, I’ve been to Germany for two winters and Minnesota in February.
goblue562 said, 6 months ago
We always called it ‘cold enough that your nose hairs freeze’..
The Wolf In Your Midst said, 6 months ago
@Leo Autodidact
Pfft. There’s a much simpler way. If a person ten feet away from you can’t hear you complain about the temperature because the words froze before they got to him, THEN it’s cold. Otherwise it’s just chilly!
blather046047 said, 6 months ago
Google “A Texan moves north” for my perspective on cold.
annieb1012 said, 6 months ago
I knew a woman who was a child around the turn of the twentieth century. She recalled that around her home, near Colorado Springs, they would go out on New Year’s Eve and blow bubbles. The bubbles would freeze, so that when they landed on the snow, they’d just sit there looking magical. They’d blow heaps and heaps of bubbles….Here in Denver, nowadays, it’s neither cold enough nor snowy enough to do that on New Year’s Eve. Some years we get a snap of below-zero in January or February, but then it sometimes gets into the 70s in February, too.