Baby Blues by Rick Kirkman and Jerry Scott for September 14, 2024

She’s a mulch-loved toy.

backyard Barbie chewed

Lt. Columbo will be …. shortly on the “job!!!”

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If it is dropped outside then it is fair game.

Livin’ in a Barbie world has dangers not always noted.

If Zoe had let Hammie catapult Barbie, Barbie would still be alive today.

Who killed the lawn mower? Was it …Ken?

Cover the kids’ eyes, she shouldn’t be exposed to such carnage at such a tender age.

Best to check out the yard before mowing!

This is exactly how a scary movie begins. At first, it seems like an ‘accident’.

QUICK! Somebody, call the local CSI!

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What if your name is actually "Barbie"®? Can you introduce yourself without a registered trademark?

Hammie… Care to explain?

I see CourtTV cameras, microphones, and real pretty reporters on the horizon.

And just like that, Lennie Briscoe and Mike Logan show up at the MacPherson’s!

With kids, you have to check the yard very carefully for toys, rocks, etc. before mowing. Now I only have to make a quick check in the back yard for anything that got thrown over the fence from the neighbor’s kids.

Bad move Darryl. You’re supposed to put it in the garbage.

Don’t worry Hammie will get his hat and magnifying glass. He’ll track the whole thing down.

My older brother managed to separate the head from the body of every Barbie I owned at one point or another.

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Jane Foster and Stormbreaker

CSI: Backyards

Daryl, Daryl, Daryl – you gots kids, man – you always walk the lawn before you mow!

Looks like Dad didn’t see the ‘victim’.. hit and run!!. Barbie didn’t last long in my ring of friends when I was a kid, either, but we were more direct about it. First, she lost her hair. Then, after several attempts to jamb her onto a Breyer mold horse and giving new meaning to the phrase ‘hip dysplasia’, she eventually just lost her head altogether. By that time, we had all moved on to wheeled and/or mechanical things anyway.

Maybe you should have picked up everything before you started mowing. Just sayin.

Maybe now Zoe will learn not to leave her toys in the yard.

Grass must have been VERY tall!

Wren’s eyes – 3rd panel. Lol.

When I went to the emergency room recently one of the nice doctors pointed out he was now guilty of billions of murders, for using antibiotics to kill so many “germs”.

For ages I have tried (in working in my shop, for example) to live by the slogan “If you could not fix it, don’t break it.” I carry that far enough that I try to avoid stepping on ants, for example. But a friend carried that a step further, asking whether I would have to be able to repair an ant’s leg if I broke it, and also asking where I studied orthopedic surgery for insects.

WRENS FAAAACE

In the criminal justice system, sibling rivalry is a common source of backyard crimes. Investigations are carried out by two separate yet equally important factors of the family: the caregivers who know their way around their house and their kids, and the disciplinarians who dole out punishments. These are their stories.

[Sound of a gavel echoing through a grand courtroom]

[ Law & Order theme plays]

Well that’s what happens when you don’t take care of your things.

Brother and I used to walk the railroad tracks by grandma’s house. One of the railroad spikes we found got left in the yard. Fortunately, (?) it was an older heavy-duty Briggs & Stratton, so it only left a big dent in the mower deck and bent the shaft. Dad always complained it never ran right after that.