Comparing 24 years between actual events (a fact) to an unrelated bad joke about the age of shoes shows Mallet (once again) has an ignorant disdain for “hard science”. Sad. Without hard science (which is all based on mathematics) not only don’t we have this online comic strip (and all the technology required to present it), we don’t have his overpriced aerodynamic bicycles and helmets.
All for the point of criticizing third grade math as too hard for an enlightened soul like Mallett.
It’s too bad creativity doesn’t get rated as highly as hard fact memorization, Caulfield’s point about comparisons is actually a pretty intelligent observation.
Around the time I was getting married, someone in my new family proudly pointed out that my new or future father-in-law owned loafers as old as I was. I’m not sure what I was supposed to take away from that, and I’m not sure what I did. But I’m pretty sure one of my options was, “ah, good, my new father-in-law must avoid wearing loafers as much as I do.”
Loafers have to be just about the dumbest shoes out there that aren’t women’s shoes. Right off the bat, they’re called “loafers.” I’m sorry, but I take it personally when my footwear insults my work ethic. I also won’t buy pants called SBD trousers. I don’t care how comfortable or stylish, I’m not buying them. And loafers are not comfortable and they’re not stylish. You can design them to look like bedroom slippers, but if you make them out of dress-shoe leather and put hard soles on them, you’re not fooling me. And I know stylish is in the eye of the beholder, but when you can put tassels on your shoes and no one bats an eye, you’re starting off with one effeminate pair of shoes.
I ended up with a couple pairs of loafers anyway, which is what happens when you want to fit into a family whose patriarch is that deep into his footwear. But they didn’t make it 26 years, because I pitched them when they didn’t go well with the immobilizer I had to wear after having my ankle reconstructed following an incident on a stairway. Oh, yeah, I don’t like their smooth, slippery soles much, either.
Oldsmobile? It has always been part of the running joke that Mrs. Olsen drove a Buick. They were always talking about her denting her Buick or backing her Buick into something. Maybe she did it so many times that she traded for an Oldsmobile!
Bilan over 6 years ago
If the Principal’s shoes have lasted 24 years, he needs the recess break more than the children.
garcoa over 6 years ago
Both are great achievements, in my mind.
Indycar over 6 years ago
Wow an Oldsmobile.
cabalonrye over 6 years ago
What about the first powered take-off (the Wright wasn’t a powered take off but a powered flight)? October 9th 1890
pshapley over 6 years ago
Comparing 24 years between actual events (a fact) to an unrelated bad joke about the age of shoes shows Mallet (once again) has an ignorant disdain for “hard science”. Sad. Without hard science (which is all based on mathematics) not only don’t we have this online comic strip (and all the technology required to present it), we don’t have his overpriced aerodynamic bicycles and helmets.
All for the point of criticizing third grade math as too hard for an enlightened soul like Mallett.
JoeMartinFan Premium Member over 6 years ago
It’s not that Caulfield is brilliant. It’s that the adults in his life (except for Frazz, of course) are clueless and so easily played.
Lizard Lass Premium Member over 6 years ago
It’s too bad creativity doesn’t get rated as highly as hard fact memorization, Caulfield’s point about comparisons is actually a pretty intelligent observation.
Night-Gaunt49[Bozo is Boffo] over 6 years ago
Frazz
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Around the time I was getting married, someone in my new family proudly pointed out that my new or future father-in-law owned loafers as old as I was. I’m not sure what I was supposed to take away from that, and I’m not sure what I did. But I’m pretty sure one of my options was, “ah, good, my new father-in-law must avoid wearing loafers as much as I do.”
Loafers have to be just about the dumbest shoes out there that aren’t women’s shoes. Right off the bat, they’re called “loafers.” I’m sorry, but I take it personally when my footwear insults my work ethic. I also won’t buy pants called SBD trousers. I don’t care how comfortable or stylish, I’m not buying them. And loafers are not comfortable and they’re not stylish. You can design them to look like bedroom slippers, but if you make them out of dress-shoe leather and put hard soles on them, you’re not fooling me. And I know stylish is in the eye of the beholder, but when you can put tassels on your shoes and no one bats an eye, you’re starting off with one effeminate pair of shoes.
I ended up with a couple pairs of loafers anyway, which is what happens when you want to fit into a family whose patriarch is that deep into his footwear. But they didn’t make it 26 years, because I pitched them when they didn’t go well with the immobilizer I had to wear after having my ankle reconstructed following an incident on a stairway. Oh, yeah, I don’t like their smooth, slippery soles much, either.
robert423elliott 10 months ago