FoxTrot Classics by Bill Amend for April 23, 2020

pretty pathetic

Sick burn!

Only two hours? No big deal! You guys got this! Go for it, Marcus! /s

As a kid we spent our summers on the beach. You could always count on a strong onshore breeze every evening.

Flying a kite is a mindless activity but we’d walk down to the boardwalk almost every night, meet up with other people doing the same thing and do it for at least an hour. We were easily entertained.

I see Marcus is looking to get nominated for a Darwin Award!

famous last words?

Thought that was the 1/10 scale model?

Not always; the tree incidents are the successful runs

I thought that was the prototype. Wasn’t the finished kite suppose to be ten times as big???

Charlie Brown, tangled in kite string and hanging upside-down from a tree, is one of the finest images in comics lore.

Once Charlie Brown got his kite up really high. Linus was really excited. And then the kite exploded. As the debris slowly drifted down, Charlie Brown redefined sad.

Maybe they need a windy day.

My mom had a beach house. I spent a lot of time on the beach teaching tourists and their kids how to fly a kite. Prevailing winds were nice, but you had to know how to get it in the air in the first place.

Pensacola Beach was great for kite flying.

We spent our summers as kids at Lake Erie in Ontario. We had a lightweight metal airplane with “wings” that rotated with the wind and kept the plane way up. Not sure about the physics of that. Fun part was that the birds hated it, and would attack it, and we’d have to tug the string to keep it (and the birds) from being damaged.

GOOD GRIEF!!