Brewster Rockit by Tim Rickard for July 22, 2024

  1. Img 20240924 104124950 2
    David Huie Green LoveJoyAndPeace  4 months ago

    Whatever wipes cleanest fastest. All other considerations are second order at best.

     •  Reply
  2. Bluedog
    Bilan  4 months ago

    With the one-ply you also need to factor in the fact that you’ll unroll twice as much and fold it essentially to turn it into two-ply.

     •  Reply
  3. Gentbear3b1a
    Gent  4 months ago

    Bigger bunny wabbits is better.

     •  Reply
  4. Grandbudapesthotel cr alamy
    Imagine  4 months ago

    That’s a crap problem.

     •  Reply
  5. T128
    saywhatwhat  4 months ago

    For “value” it may be more important to buy the package with more roles. But don’t be fooled by lightweight roles.

     •  Reply
  6. Missing large
    ttterksme Premium Member 4 months ago

    Any roll that doesn’t fit in the in-wall dispenser is too big.

     •  Reply
  7. Man with x ray glasses
    The Reader Premium Member 4 months ago

    Whichever one your finger doesn’t go through.

     •  Reply
  8. Av 101a
    wetidlerjr  4 months ago

    Ha! ha! ha! ha! ha!…

     •  Reply
  9. Fox picture avatar  2
    phritzg Premium Member 4 months ago

    To calculate the best value, Dr. Mel should also consider how many sheets are on the roll and the size of each sheet (computed in square inches, to at least two decimal places).

     •  Reply
  10. Images
    ksu71  4 months ago

    There’s always corn cobs or the Sears catalog.

     •  Reply
  11. Missing large
    WaitingMan  4 months ago

    Sadly, my proof of the Riemann Hypothesis is too large to fit in the GoComics comment section.

     •  Reply
  12. Missing large
    BJDucer  4 months ago

    I thought the toilet paper conundrum was to determine which way the paper should roll off…over the top, or next to the wall. Personally, as long as it’s there, I haven’t any issue. However, this seems to matter to many other people!

     •  Reply
  13. Cobra 1
    [Traveler] Premium Member 4 months ago

    Our last batch was the largest and would hardly fit in the holder

     •  Reply
  14. Eel better
    Kroykali  4 months ago

    Thanks to shrinkflation, toilet paper rolls are narrower now, so the older holders that hold the rolls at each end no longer work.

     •  Reply
  15. Cw avatar006
    blakerl  4 months ago

    Oh S*it !!

     •  Reply
  16. Mh 465796339 863108746036623 6589731031279380187 n
    Radish...   4 months ago

    I’m still doing paper towel math.

     •  Reply
  17. Screen shot 2020 05 01 at 9.09.59 am
    Acworthless  4 months ago

    And let’s not forget the Paper Towel Corollary to the Toilet Paper Conundrum wherein you have to assess the relative value of “Single,” “Double,” and “Triple” rolls.

     •  Reply
  18. Image
    Vet Premium Member 4 months ago

    Don’t forget the Strong vs Soft Conundrum!

     •  Reply
  19. Missing large
    Linda Schweiner Premium Member 4 months ago

    You can get a bidet on Amazon for around $40 and you will use WAY LESS toilet paper.

     •  Reply
  20. Packrat
    Packratjohn Premium Member 4 months ago

    Reminds me of this: Life is like a roll of toilet paper. The closer you get to the end, the faster it goes.

    But I’ll say this; ANY toilet tissue is better than NO toilet paper.

     •  Reply
  21. Avatar92
    JPuzzleWhiz  4 months ago

    The same formula might also apply to paper towels.

     •  Reply
  22. Stinker
    cuzinron47  4 months ago

    Then there the old single ply single sheet, or what I used to call Polaroid film.

     •  Reply
  23. Fdr avatar 6d9910b68a3c 128
    Teto85 Premium Member 4 months ago

    An algorithm to determine how long your toilet tissue would last based on the length of the roll and how many sheets used per day was quite popular during the major stage of the COVID pandemic. The USA had a president in 2020 who was full of excrement that the country was in danger of running out of toilet tissue. Some of those people leaving Costco with 108 rolls are just getting onto single digits left.

     •  Reply
  24. Kirby close up with poppies behind   close cropped
    mistercatworks  4 months ago

    It’s pretty clear that if you can put a million more in the same size roll that’s going to be toilet paper you can see through.

     •  Reply
  25. Klingon crest a
    Scott S  4 months ago

    Gallagher had commented about the nonsense of scented toilet paper. “The one thing that doesn’t need to smell good, because it’s going to get f**ked up!”

     •  Reply
  26.                             ykdjq2nfdq
    GG_loves_comics Premium Member 4 months ago

    The worst part of the last problem is that you’re expected to solve it in your head, standing in the aisle of a grocery store!

     •  Reply
  27. Ted4th
    seismic-2 Premium Member 4 months ago

    Shouldn’t that be the Riemann zeta function (the sum from 1 to infinity of 1 over n to the s power) instead of the harmonic series (the sum from 1 to infinity of 1 over n), which is divergent?

     •  Reply
  28. Sunimage
    Sun  4 months ago

    Just when you thought it was safe to wipe.

     •  Reply
  29. Missing large
    smartman  4 months ago

    Life is too short to use One-Ply toilet paper.

     •  Reply
  30. Me  mick foley
    dwkiser28603  4 months ago

    Doc, just buy the Scott blue pack and be done with

     •  Reply
  31. Missing large
    paullp Premium Member 4 months ago

    For me, there are two additional factors in the TP Conundrum. One, I can’t buy Mega XL rolls; they don’t fit in my spare TP holder. I also can’t buy rolls packaged in 3 dimensions — a single layer package, say, four rolls high and three rolls wide, fits well in my closet. But if the same arrangement is two layers deep, it won’t fit in the space allotted.

    Then there’s also the nausea factor, by which I mean I can’t stomach those commercials with the bears who carry on about how clean their a$$e$ (not to mention their underwear) are.

     •  Reply
  32. Balloon32
    freewaydog  4 months ago

    I thought the TP conundrum was which way to face it when you put it on the holder—in or out?

     •  Reply
Sign in to comment

More From Brewster Rockit