Rubes by Leigh Rubin for April 27, 2024

It’s okay. She’s batty anyway.

use a pencil

I own a “space pen” that does indeed write while upside down (or in no gravity, so I’m told).

Great idea for a strip❣️

Mother will understand.

need to use an astronaut pen

Turn the pen the other way for a minute. It takes a long time to write in an awkward position.

use a pencil

This is cute, it happens to me all the time when I try to write on a vertical pad

Be like the Cosmonaughts and use a pencil.

She and her sonar very close.

Nothing much to say anyway. I just hang out a lot.

The way the writing falls off, is going to leave her hanging.

NASA discovered that pens didn’t work in zero gravity and spent millions to develop the space pen. Meanwhile, Soviet cosmonauts simply used pencils.

Shocking! Actually, it’s complete BS.

U.S. astronauts used pencils, too. Then Paul C. Fisher created the space pen and sold them to NASA for $2.39 per pen. The product then went up for sale to the public and did quite well. Among the customers was the Soviet space agency, who gave them to its cosmonauts.

Russian bats just use a pencil.

Get yourself a Fisher Space Pen™

Get her a Fisher Space Pen.