Frazz by Jef Mallett for January 30, 2021

I’m afraid I had to Google Wim Hof.

Selfie culture? I hope people aren’t taking their cell phones into the freezing water.

“Tourist”

I had to Google Wim Hof also. I bet he doesn’t have much competition. Yikes

None of you need to feel bad. Mallett probably had to look up “piker”.

Piker is an excellent word that doesn’t get enough use anymore. I myself use it from time to time.

Pike are fun to catch, but I wouldn’t want to encounter one while swimming.

Frazz is right. piker is a term for a slacker. Frazz has just become an unintended minority in a sport that has grown out of boredom brought on by the restrictions of the pandemic. But, like new year’s resolutions, the upswing will fade, and he will once again be just one of the few normal nuts in the sport.

He is great!

What the heck is wim hof? Anything like covfefe?

I can relate, I went from being a radical in the 60’s for standing for equal rights to being a racist today without changing my views!

Honestly I find Frazz frustrating at times

At my age there are two definitions of piker.

As nouns the difference between cheapskate and piker is that cheapskate is someone who stingily avoids spending money while piker is (military|historical) a soldier armed with a pike, a pikeman.

It’s not the Wimmen’s Hall of Fame?

By trying to be too cool for the room you sometimes alienate the room.

Sometimes, by standing still in the swirl of events, you can look like an absolute prophet!

Up here in the Great White North, it didn’t get much above zero degrees (-18 C) today; but the ice on the Wim Hof dippers hole had been freshly broken.

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Frazz 20 hrs. · I’ve said it in the strip, I’ve said it in this space, I’ve said it to random strangers: If you lack the talent to do things other people can’t, you do things other people won’t.

I have to say I thought swimming in cold water would fit that criteria a lot longer than it did. This is disturbing, because, after years of trying to acclimate, I’m still not all that good in cold water. Meanwhile, an astonishing number of people have flocked to the frozen ponds and shores, turning a “what other people won’t” into a relative something else I can’t.

Guess I’ll have to resort to actual good judgment and just do it for its own sake. If I need to stand out, I’ll wear a colorful bowtie.