Brewster Rockit by Tim Rickard for February 21, 2011

Hold out for more, Winky!

See also “Go away boy ya botherin me!”

It pays to ask the right question(s)

“Or do you want me to send you to Mars with a ruler?”

I did the solar system in an afternoon, including a late lunch half way through. It’s quite small really, especially that blue one 3rd from its sun.

Dr Mel would be interested if the answer involved killer robots.

A heart is a terrible thing to waste…

(I hereby award myself Best Quip of the Day… :P pbbt)

LORD DOGMORE WC Fields is rolling in his grave. If there was anything he hated worse than dogs, it was “kids”. “Go away kid, ya bother me.” He had a few remarks about women, but this is a family strip.

That’s another 35¢ for his spleen replacement fund.

Hey Sayhow, I remember when harass was two words.

Remind me of a Stephen Wright joke:

Grandma to kid: Here’s five dollars - don’t tell your parents I gave it to you.

Kid (deadpan): It’s gonna cost you more than that.

For those who care: Mars: 6794 km diameter Earth: 12, 756 km diameter ratio of sizes: .532 to 1

Dime: 17.91 mm Quarter: 24.26 mm ratio of sizes: .738 to 1

Fun with Google…

Bah ha ha, excellent strip.

About the origins of the meter and how it was defined.

Tidbit from http://physics.nist.gov/cuu/Units/meter.html

The origins of the meter go back to at least the 18th century. At that time, there were two competing approaches to the definition of a standard unit of length. Some suggested defining the meter as the length of a pendulum having a half-period of one second; others suggested defining the meter as one ten-millionth of the length of the earth’s meridian along a quadrant (one fourth the circumference of the earth). In 1791, soon after the French Revolution, the French Academy of Sciences chose the meridian definition over the pendulum definition because the force of gravity varies slightly over the surface of the earth, affecting the period of the pendulum.

The difference between earth and Mars: I’d rather eat a Mars bar than a lump of earth.

Guess I won’t ask ‘im who put Pepto Bismal all over the walls….