Frazz by Jef Mallett for December 09, 2019

How old do you have to be to know what a washboard is?

The Center’s education has been sadly lacking.

A former brain surgery patient requests you “Whippersnappers Stop all this Malarkey !”

The CDC in Atlanta (where we used to be) have things than to study that! (Ugh).

I know that place. That’s where I got SB (sled belly)

It is either Center for Disease Control, or Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. It is not Centers for Disease Control

I once had a girlfriend who had TB.* Off to the bathroom at least once every hour.

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 *tiny bladder

It use to be a pretty common word for the road conditions in the winter especially out in rural areas. Gravel road are quite prone to it.

The talent show at the 1980 Lutheran Student Movement conference in Calgary (I think – my first was in 1981) was couched as the NB Syndrome Telethon. Many conference participants had numb buns from travelling by bus from the southern U.S.

Of course, if I were of the ilk to pick nits, I would point out that Caulfield’s “TB” isn’t a communicable disease to start with, so Ms. O is way off course.

But since I’m not of that ilk, I will not mention it.

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I had a joke all lined up that was less juvenile, but I thought, you know, I haven’t done a toboggan joke in a while, and once you make a decision like that, well, it’s a slippery slope.

OK. This one made me chuckle. In a third-grade way, but still.

“Toboggan butt”—the stuff you find online …

Jef, thanks for your grammatical confidence. Most would have said “Centers for Disease Control DON’T recognize…”