Frazz by Jef Mallett for March 21, 2017

If you want noise, try Krokus.

I’m just mad about Saffron.

Sounds so much better than “frog flower”

‘Literality’ never survives a bout with botanical labels.

Early adventures in etymology. May you have many, many more, lucky child.

It’s going to croak. We’re all going to croak.

Jef, you’ve got crocuses? Oh, wait….you live an hour south of us. We’ve got one robin, though. He’s a vegetarian….

You occasionally DOllearn things following this strip! I wish my elementary school had been this interesting. The only elementary school teacher I remember clearly was Mr. Worley, who looked like a shaven-headed football linebacker. He was known to break rulers over the heads of misbehaving boys,( then write their names on them and hang them on the wall. Only time I had trouble with him was when I had my nose buried in a fantasy novel, ignoring the class. He took the book away and “frisbeed” it out the open classroom door. I THINK I was able to retrieve the book at recess, but I never read anything but a textbook in class again! This was fifty years ago, of course, and I doubt he would have been allowed to discipline his students that way today. I later heard he went to work at the local continuation high school, where he probably earned the respect of the punks!

I wish I was that interesting in class. I wanted to be drawing or reading. Once I made the mistake of leaving a drawing turned face down on my desk in 2nd grade. The sour faced teacher took it and never saw it again.