# Frazz: Caulfield's Costume Clues Commence!

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/frazz-caulfields-costume-clues-commence/515170>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [October 26, 2009, 12:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/frazz-caulfields-costume-clues-commence/515170 "2009-10-26T12:55:28Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 6\
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**Author:** ![Kamino\_Neko](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kamino_neko/32/34_2.png) [@Kamino\_Neko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kamino_Neko)\
**Post date:** [October 27, 2009, 11:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/frazz-caulfields-costume-clues-commence/515170/21 "2009-10-27T23:43:08Z")

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> [@Khadaji](#):
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> Is Mr. Spaetzle the guy with pens in his pocket?

Yes.

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**Author:** ![Arnold\_Winkelried](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Arnold\_Winkelried](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arnold_Winkelried)\
**Post date:** [October 27, 2009, 11:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/frazz-caulfields-costume-clues-commence/515170/22 "2009-10-27T23:46:37Z")

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> [@John\_DiFool](#):
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> Wasn’t the Headless Horseman ensconced within a tree, from which he would emerge each night to do his master’s evil bidding?

Are you talking about The Legend of Sleepy Hollow? The Headless Horseman emerging from a tree was in the 1999 Tim Burton movie _Sleepy Hollow_ (starring Johnny Depp and Christina Ricci), not in the Washington Irving book, so it would not be a literary reference. In any case, smarter minds than I have it figured out: Catch-22.

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**Author:** ![E-Sabbath](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/e19adc/32.png) [@E-Sabbath](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/E-Sabbath)\
**Post date:** [October 28, 2009, 10:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/frazz-caulfields-costume-clues-commence/515170/23 "2009-10-28T10:31:46Z")

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Todays makes it one hundred percent certain. It’s a good old catch, that catch-22.

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**Author:** ![Dinsdale](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/97f17d/32.png) [@Dinsdale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dinsdale)\
**Post date:** [October 28, 2009, 1:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/frazz-caulfields-costume-clues-commence/515170/24 "2009-10-28T13:37:23Z")

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I can’t remember the previous ones, but ISTR them as being a lot more obscure than this one. Or am I getting smarter (as well as better looking) with each passing year?

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**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\
**Post date:** [October 28, 2009, 1:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/frazz-caulfields-costume-clues-commence/515170/25 "2009-10-28T13:38:49Z")

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The year he and Frazz did “The Old Man and the Sea” was very up-front. You knew the book, just not the costume.

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**Author:** ![palindromemordnilap](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/db5fbb/32.png) [@palindromemordnilap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/palindromemordnilap)\
**Post date:** [October 28, 2009, 1:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/frazz-caulfields-costume-clues-commence/515170/26 "2009-10-28T13:51:13Z")

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I just saw this thread now. I guessed right based on today’s strip but couldn’t connect the graveyard tree to it. Now I get some of the earlier references. For those unfamiliar with the strip, here’s a link:  
[http://comics.com/frazz/2009-10-26/](http://comics.com/frazz/2009-10-26/)

The commentors here got it on the first day, btw.

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