Baby Blues by Rick Kirkman and Jerry Scott for October 08, 2024

Six of the planets have a U in them. I’d never thought about that before. Seven if you count Pluto. That’s unUsual.

if he can’t recite the entire list at school – he’ll be receiving an “F” (wərd)

It is a funny word to a kid, we know where Hammie’s mind is at!

A lot of people have made jokes about the name of that planet.

Kid humor

Workarounds

Uranus is the seventh planet, buddy.

They should change it’s name to end to this childish humor. Something like… Urectum! (Futurama paraphrase)

When he gets older he might recite bawdy limericks about Venus.

oh to have that level of innocence again

“Hammie! U are going to ‘time out’!”

Actually it was the seventh planet.

It’s pronounced OO-Rah-Noos. Not your aynus. Well, unless you need to say that for some reason or other.

Pluto Lives Matter and it will always be the 9th planet to me.

I will ALWAYS include Pluto!

I wonder if there is a missing word?

“…can get past TO the eight…” ?

If you can’t control yourself, Hammie, we’ll blast you to Pluto! Yeah, that’s right! A DWARF planet!!

Is this going to be a 1-joke week? OK, OK, we get it…

All this goofing around, no Mars bar for you!

I was using my telescope, last night, and I saw Uranus. It was beautiful.

Interesting that for Hammies’ age, he knows the correct name for that certain part of the body. For me at that age it was butt-hole.

Pluto is a planet! Schoolhouse Rock says so!

Wait until Hammie realizes that Uranis has 27 MOONS.

What is this RIPLEY BELIEVE IT OR NOT! Letters??

Uranus is the only planet that is scatological two ways — URINE-US and Your-ANUS!

Dad should be saying, “It was the only way he could get past the seventh planet”, or “to the eighth”.

1 Mercury, 2 Venus, 3 Earth, 4 Mars, 5 Jupiter, 7 Saturn. Uranus is the 7th planet out from the sun. Neptune is the 8th.

Clearly it doesn’t work completely.

They must have intended to write “get past the seventh planet” or “get TO the eighth planet”.

Debatable whether he did get past it, based on the spacing.

Pluto counts in my world