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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Pacopuddy said, 3 months ago
No – the wind chill doesn’t make it FEEL cold. It MAKES it ACTUALLY (bun-freezing) COLD, full stop!
Alexikakos said, 3 months ago
Without wind, you can work very comfortably out doors to about 0 degrees Fahrenheit. (about -20 Celcius). With wind, even just below freezing can make for a very uncomfortable day.
masterskrain said, 3 months ago
Interesting point…if it’s -5*, but with a 20 M.P.H. wind, giving a wind chill of about -20*, the thermometer will STILL say -5*
The wind chill only makes it feel that much colder, because of rapid heat loss.
QuiteDragon said, 3 months ago
@masterskrain
That’s because you need to use a wet-bulb thermometer to measure wind chill.
Tacopielvr said, 3 months ago
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Masteriece??? Just bad. You’re either his mommy, or you have really, really low standards?
vwdualnomand said, 3 months ago
heard that new england, especially boston will get 3 feet of snow in the next 24 hours
littleannoyingdog said, 3 months ago
@vwdualnomand Don’t remind me.The weather reporters are having a field day.I survived the Blizzard of ‘78 and I’ll survive this one.
Bandit said, 3 months ago
heinie… such a great word
bigpuma said, 3 months ago
@Bandit
I think so, too, even though, in some dictionaries, its primary meaning is given as “derogatory slang for a German”.
hippogriff said, 3 months ago
Debbie Jordan: Once is a friendly tip (it isn’t that great), but now it has become nagging. I don’t think they are likely to drop it; Biographic has been up for months with no dot, or presumably viewers. Give it a rest.
Night-Gaunt49 said, 3 months ago
@bigpuma
What would you expect? The US went to war against Germans twice! So the propaganda fought tooth and nail against anything German. They were also called “krauts” too.
bigpuma said, 3 months ago
I don’t know why you’d think I might “expect” anything, Gaunt. I was just agreeing that it’s a fun word. I looked it up in the three dictionary apps I have on my phone. Two mentioned only the buttocks definition, and nothing about Germans. The third not only had the German business there; it listed it first. Interesting.
And it’s interesting that a “slur” should become so harmless with the passage of time. I’m of German descent (a quarter Irish), and no one has ever called me a “Heinie”. (Even if they did, I’d laugh it off.) In fact, I can’t think of single time in my life that I’ve faced any ill will or discrimination because of my heritage. When you think of the horrors of those wars, it’s quite remarkable, how things have changed.
Nabuquduriuzhur said, 3 months ago
Wind chill is the measure of how fast a given volume of water’s temperature would drop to the ambient temperature. It’s supposed to be the equivalent of heat loss at a colder temperature than the ambient when wind is present. -10 in X mph in 32 degrees type of thing.
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It doesn’t take into account how people get used to a temperature, typically in 3 days, either cold or hot. When the temp drops to the single digits or minus numbers here, it’s normal for people to be cold for the first couple of days at least. By the third day, they’ve adjusted. When it warms up again, you see people wearing just a light jacket in the 30s until they get used to the “warmer” temperature.
comicsssfan said, 3 months ago
She’s also rotating to stay warm.
Bob
said, 3 months ago
We used to get “Heinie” haircuts