Frazz by Jef Mallett for October 25, 2017

Sadly, it was after the US Army gave Elvis amphetamines.

Actually I believe you can largely count “The Pelvis” out of that. Liverpool was a big port and apparently records of American Black singers were readily available, and popular.

and he’s still the king…three #1 albums in past 3 years (in England and Europe)

Oh Maybelene, why can’t you be true?

Who needs coffee with the racket Elvis made?

England was a coffee drinking nation. But there was a coffee blight and their plantations were replanted with tea. Then tea was advertised as more refined than coffee to get people to switch.

Considering how important the Beatles were and still are it is kind of ridiculous how short their carreer was. Their international breakthrough was in 1963, before that they were mostly locally known (in St. Pauli, Germany), and they broke up in 1970. That’s only 7 years. Compare that to today’s more important mega stars (most of today’s stars will hopefully be forgotten in 20 years).

@alien011: beginning in the early 90’s only about a minute was needed for me to hear and forget most of the so-called ‘hot music’ and its perpetrators. Been getting even easier since then

What’s with the Han Solo look?

When it comes to assigning places in history to various social mores, accuracy is not always the goal.

During the 1960’s a college English prof dragged his family to England every summer. He forced his suffering wife and child to follow the walking tours taken by Samuel Johnson. Then he returned to campus armed with ‘fresh’ insights with which he inundated his captive audiences.

One of his most proudly pronounced pontifications was: I can tell you with absolute certainty that the English DO NOT take milk in their tea!!

He stated this ‘truth’ with some vigor, as if it had the quality of great thought. It actually appeared on one test. And, of course, it completely ignored the many documentaries, newsreels, books, and movies of the period, in which milk was seen to flow freely into tea cups.

A young veteran had recently returned home from a USAF air base near Cambridge. Innocently he offered: In my two year hitch I never met any English person that did not take milk in his/her tea. The silence was deafening.

What he – and others – learned very quickly was that minor demigods set up their tiny fiefdoms and enforce their more worldly views on inexperienced captives of the college classroom. The course description never includes accuracy.

Is Jef not doing his own lettering this week?

Kind of random but, is that kid dressed as Han Solo?

Let us not forget, there are plenty of other tea-drinking cultures besides the British.

Caffeine crash at bedtime. The same lethargy and drowsiness that hits people at eleven O’clock if they miss their coffee break at ten.

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You know what? I’m delinquent in this. Since I’ve already started fights all over the place by mentioning Elvis and the Beatles in the same sentence, not to mention in a way that could be taken as some kind of competition for primacy, I’ll go ahead and say that I really should have gone with Chuck Berry. Now, there’s a guy who shaped modern music before the other two. You can argue about who shaped it more, and some of you probably will. But Berry did it first.

I’m convinced that coffee caused the industrial revolution. People sobered up, looked around, said “Holy carp, we’re weaving cloth in the living room and forging steel things out in the back yard!” and started building textile mills and factories.

Your story @SANDERLING75 underscores for me this current theme in the strip. The girl is working on the assumption that all English drink tea only in the afternoon and that all coffee drinkers only have their cuppa in the morning. It would be nice to see her realize she needs expand her narrow view. And then, Frazz could really rock her world and tell her about those who like to drink hot Dr. Pepper instead of either coffee or tea.

RIP, Fats Dominoe.