Baby Blues by Rick Kirkman and Jerry Scott for October 06, 2024

THAT’S a really good question!

This assumes that Jenny can instantly get in and out of the rest stop.

Egbert means bright edge (like a blade) in Old German. There are many major figures of their day with that name.

He must by related to Dilbert

Eggbert. Imagine going to school with that name?

Why would anyone be named Hammish?

Hammish and Egbert, please⠄⠄⠄

and a side of hashbrowns

It’s an old-fashioned name you don’t hear much of these days, Hammie, By the way how many Hammies do you know?

Egbert Humperdinck! Oops, not quite…

Why name a child `Hamish’? (Long-time reader—I remember when Hammie was born.)

Hammie and Egbert. Breakfast!

Start assuming every Bert you meet is short for Egbert and see what happens.

I got a cousin named Patricia. She looked up its meaning, which is (I kid you NOT!) “a Patrician woman”. Oh, THAT helps!

From the Dilbert world before it was banned.

I’ve always hated those type of math problems.

We’re so sorry, uncle Egbert

But if anything should happen

We’ll be sure to give a ring

~ ᴮᵉᵃᵗˡᵉˢ

The answer to the problem is wrong because of the loss of inertia.

In the comic, Jenny’s travel time is said to be only 10 minutes faster than Egbert’s because she stops twice for 25 minutes, while Egbert stops once for an hour. However, the comic overlooks an important factor: the loss of inertia when Jenny stops and then has to accelerate again twice. In real-world driving, stopping and starting up again doesn’t just take the exact stop time into account—Jenny would also lose time decelerating and regaining speed after each stop. This means the total impact of her two stops would likely add more time than just the 50 minutes of rest. So, the time difference between Jenny and Egbert would actually be greater than 10 minutes because Egbert only stops once and has to regain speed just once, while Jenny does it twice. Therefore, in a realistic scenario, Jenny’s travel would take longer than calculated in the comic.

I disliked story problems, Had trouble figuring out who/what should be ‘X’ and who/what should be ‘Y’.

Didn’t Egbert run a sandwich place with Gerbert?

Quite a question coming from a kid named Hammie.

Says the kid named after a Denny’s breakfast dish.

I hated math-word problems.

Egbert must be short for “Edgar”

Egbert sounds like a side character in the Dilbert strip. Back before Adams went insane.

Hammie once again raises a valid question.

sounds like my grandson

His parents liked history?

Funny

Maybe he’ll grow up and marry an Egbert. They’ll be Ham and Eg.

Egbert, better than being named Gollum.

When I was a kid, I had a little yellow 78rpm record by Roy Rogers. On Side A, he sang “Peter Cottontail,” but Side B was a song about “Eggbert, the Easter Egg.”

I think that was my first and last exposure to that name in my daily life.

I HATED word problems like this!! I could never figure them out no matter what the teacher tried to show me. I could never figure out how this was supposed to be relevant to real life.

I’m with Hammie.

Why would anyone be named Ratkin?

”Just as Seamus/Seumus is Irish for James, Hamish is the Scottish form — one that’s not often used here, but still redolent of Olde Scotland. If you’re ready to go further than Duncan and Malcolm, out to Laird and Ewan territory, this may be worth consideration. It also sounds just like the Yiddish word for homey.In Scotland, where it became popular in the second half of the nineteenth century, Hamish is a nickname for a Highlander, and it’s a high-ranking name in South Australia, where it’s currently in the Top 50.Some people may have become familiar with Hamish via one of the grooms in Four Weddings and a Funeral”(Quote from )

The site name was cut off. It’s “nameberry” and then the dot com

What happed to Alice and Bob?

That’s a good question Hammie.

I agree.

Don’t forget the even worse name, Norbert.

I’m with Hammie here, I used to drive my teachers nuts by questioning the premise of the story problem. They would be like, “Tom goes into the store and buys 24 cantaloupes” and I’d be asking “Who buys 24 cantaloupes at once?”

When I taught upper elementary, I used a lot of goofy, factices names in my examples. Kids loved it.

Because the book was written in the 1920s when there were actually people named Egbert and cars had just been invented, giving authors a new subject about which to make up story problems.

i know ONE egbert and they are from the hit webcomic known as homestuck™ and they are currently both alive and dead at the exact same time/gen

Kronk’s Angel: No, no he’s got a point.