Frazz by Jef Mallett for January 27, 2020

They mooched around. They played outside. They watched TV. They read a newspaper or a magazine, or looked at the picture. They stared into space. They daydreamed. They lollygagged. They wool-gathered. They asked “Whadda you wanna do?” or replied “I dunno. Whadda you wanna do?” The possibilities were endless.

I used to clean the house, top to bottom. Remarkable what you find when you do that.

Right on DonLee – - the ‘good’ old days – -

Once again, Olsen scores. Caulfield bombs.

Foiled again, eh, Caulfield.

Seriously, there are a LOT of people running around today that have NO CLUE how to research something using BOOKS, the LIBRARY, and so on… if it’s NOT RIGHT HERE on their Idiot Screen, they are lost!

It’s called, MEETINGS, BLOODY MEETINGS"

Oh, that’s an easy answer. “The dog ate it!”

When I left school all thoughts related to school, including homework, just flew out of my head.

In my case, it was getting lost in a book. I was and am completely oblivious to the world around me when buried in the printed word. I don’t get nearly as absorbed in the computer (my eyes get tired more quickly) and I have NEVER owned a phone that I cared to play games on. I’m a cheap old broad…

I will control myself and no go into my standard long rant about how homework is terrible for kids, not least because it simply widens the educational gap between the haves and the have-nots. Homework is the principal reason why children don’t enjoy childhood as much as adults enjoy adultery.

My grades went south when I moved north. For years I blamed it on the harder curriculum, but now I realize we got cable, and thus, weekday afternoon cartoons when we moved to New York.

My wife complains incessantly about how between work and our daughter, she never has a free minute to herself to do the things she used to love to do. Of course, what she fails to complain about or take into consideration are the two or three hours she spends staring at her phone each evening, delving down the rabbit hole of Instagram and Facebook, coupled with her love of binge watching reality TV.

I prefer Dilbert’s simple “How did people look busy before computers?”

AARRRRGGHHHH!!! “Worksheets”! A word that still strikes terror in my heart.

Blog PostsFrazz16 hrs ·

Honestly. People should be screwing up and not getting their work done by reading comics and Froggs online, that’s how they should be doing it. That, or creating comics and Froggs. That’s even more rewarding.

Before those things, we went fishing in the bay, played football in the park, baseball in the street, rode our bikes, or went swimming.