Frazz by Jef Mallett for December 20, 2012
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Transcript:
Mrs. Olsen: You're waddling. Frazz: Just a little muscle soreness. Mrs. Olsen: If that's runner's high," I don't want it. Caulfield: If that were runner's high, she'd talk like a surfer whenever she couldn't park right next to the building.
Here goes…
American media typically depicts people who are high all of the time as talking like California surfers. “Whoah…bummer dude”, etc.She is conflating the pain from excessive physical activity with “Runner’s High”.She is sufficiently sedentary that walking across the school parking lot constitutes excessive physical activity.Thus, if she were right, every time that she had to walk more than the minimum distance from her car she would get high and start talking like a stoner.