Daddy's Home by Tony Rubino and Gary Markstein for August 03, 2020

sheesh…can’t take a joke (when using it as a cover for those three words)?

Can’t explain the phases of the moon, but could probably tell you off the top of his head the MLB MVP on second base in 1967… sounds like another once-proud honor student from our venerable publick school system

Tony asked, about 8 hours ago

Why?

It’s really difficult to explain that only with words; maybe if Gary threw in some drawings concerning the matter?

Because its better than feeding Elliot a load of crap that he might go on believing.

Now if Elliot asked “why does the moon have phasers” Pete could give a Star Trek answer that Elliot could relate to!

Why? The moon draws a curtain so it can clean itself once a month.

It’s easy to demonstrate. Cup your hands so they cover half a light bulb. Now look at it from different angles and it’ll look like phases of the moon. That’s what the moon looks like and as it turns….

Taking lessons from Calvin’s dad’s “Book of Explanations”.

3 more words…Goo…gle…it. (Thought of saying “Look it up”, but to me “Goo…gle…it” did a better job of conveying her exasperation.

Because!!!

And now for that part of the show where we look at those three little words men find so hard to say. “I Don’t Know!” Here is my uncle Red Green and his best friend in the whole wide room…

7 words are better: “I don’t know, but let’s find out”

Where did Peg learn those words? :-O

“If you can’t dazzle them with brilliance, baffle them with bullshit.”

― W.C. Fields.

I was watching the weather channel the other day and they mentioned that the huricane/tropical storm approaching Florida will have higher tides than usual becase it’s a full moon. Now I’ve heard this for ever but always wondered… since the moon is always the same size why does the amount of light reflected from it make a difference. If they had said because the moon is closer in it’s orbit that would make sense. Is the moon only closest when it’s full?

Fake . . News

If Elliot doesn’t know ‘Dadspeak’ by now.

“My friend the Doctor says the moon is made of apple pie,

And once a month is eaten by the sun;

And that is why, up in the sky, you’ll find as every month goes by

Somebody up in the sky’s makin’ another one.”

Doctor Doolittle (1967)