Frazz by Jef Mallett for March 02, 2016
Transcript:
Caulfield: Wait a minute. I thought you quit smoking when you broke your cigarette arm. Mrs. Olsen: I did. Caulfield: Then how are you constantly reminded of it? Mrs. Olsen: I quit smoking. Smoking won't quit me. Caulfield: Wow. This took a troubling turn toward highbrow. Mrs. Olsen: And we can't have that. Caulfield: I'm on it.
Mr Nobody over 8 years ago
Nyuk nyuk nyuk!
DutchUncle over 8 years ago
The secret is revealed! They have been colluding all along, conning the rest of the students with a good-cop/bad-cop routine, and almost incidentally pushing Caulfield to adult responsibility at a dizzying rate.
suevanv Premium Member over 8 years ago
Nothing breaks the tension of a serious discussion like a little arm pit fart. Just sayin’…
Kind&Kinder over 8 years ago
Air and water are certainly at the top of Maslow’s hierarchy of needs, but they are not addictions in the classic sense, they are systemic original requirements for organic survival. Now pizza, on the other hand….
rekam Premium Member over 8 years ago
Yeah, there’s a real problem if you have neither.
toahero over 8 years ago
socalglide over 8 years ago
I can relate. I quit smoking 8 years ago, but the urge still hasn’t quite went away. A friend of mine quit 25 years ago and said he still wants a cigarette at times. Psychological addictions can be stronger than the physical ones.
socalglide over 8 years ago
Having never been addicted to heroin, I can’t say for sure, but I’d go with “yes”. Why do some people who have kicked heroin’s physical addiction go back to it?
childe_of_pan over 7 years ago
I have heard it said by people who have kicked both habits (tobacco and heroin) that tobacco was the harder one to quit.