Even Piraro doesn’t want to know . . . he wrote on his blog tonight: “Well, this joke is kind of gross so let’s not talk about that part.”
Kid’s got balls.
Get your minds out of the gutter. He was holding the ball in his left hand.
P.S. If it had been an American football (instead of a British/European one), the caption could have read: “The Brown family never realized that this would be the only time their son actualy kicked the ball.“
P.P.S. By “he” I meant the father, not the son.
When a baby kicks, it pushes against mommy’s abdominal wall, which shows up on the belly. So the soccer ball was sitting in her lap, and that kid DOES have a heck of a leg.
If you extend the motion lines, it could lead to her wide open mouth.
James, if the ball was on her lap, I think we have some logistics problems.
I do see “resting on her lap” (in front of her baby bump) as the easy best answer.
“if the ball was on her lap, I think we have some logistics problems.”
Of what sort?
I’ve been trying not to think about where it was all day.
How finely do we have to analize a comic?
I wouldn’t have to think gross thoughts if they hadn’t been brought up. :-)
I counted the Secret Symbols as usual but only found 7 of the 8 claimed on the signature (bunny eyeball K2 pie O2 arrow saucer). I suppose the seemingly arbitrary 8 on the hanging jacket is #8, but I don’t recall ever seeing it before and it’s not in the bizarro.com list. Are we witness to the momentous birth of a new Symbol, the Eight of Octitude?
Nice coinage, Grawlix.
Come to think of it, I only found 7 of 8 in Andréa’s Bizarro earlier Sunday. Maybe they both have the Interrobang of Invisibility.
@ Treesong – I think the “8” is just a pair of buttons. A stick of dynamite is hidden at the top of the lamp’s post.
P.S. Last week’s “Bizarro” included a bit of a cheat: there were two sticks of dynamite (one under the table, and one on the drinks cart). Reading left to right, the rest were spaceship, O2, pie, eyeball, K2, bird.
The motion lines clearly trace back to her open mouth. I’m sorry, but that’s the way it is.
Ah, but apparently you are using conventional straight-line inertial physics. In many people’s mental models, an object being moved along a curved path will continue on an extension of that curve (not a tangent) after being released / unpowered.
“The motion lines clearly trace back to her open mouth. I’m sorry, but that’s the way it is.”
But they don’t, and it isn’t. Sorry.
P.S. Last week’s “Bizarro” included a bit of a cheat: there were two sticks of dynamite (one under the table, and one on the drinks cart).
Multiples of objects have occurred before and go into the count.
@ Brian – That is of course correct, but I still think it’s not quite proper form. I also remember (but of course cannot find now) one panel in which there was a large number of repeated symbols (probably crowns), which were not counted separately.
P.S. I am sorry to say that I have to agree with JP on the curve of the trajectory, but by no means with the abrasive way in which he stated it.
Was that the sound of faint praise I hear?
If you understand that we will agree with you when you’re right, perhaps you can consider that when we disagree, you might be wrong.
I tried finding an analysis with a drawing at this angle but could only find this (which still shows how much straighter the ball goes at first, before going into a more circular arc). Trajectory analysis of a soccer ball
I find the little black segment that’s closest to them to be annoyingly low, maybe even too low for a chin kick. (..or is that just how low her mouth would have been opened by the ball?)
” perhaps you can consider that when we disagree, you might be wrong.”
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Even Piraro doesn’t want to know . . . he wrote on his blog tonight: “Well, this joke is kind of gross so let’s not talk about that part.”
Kid’s got balls.
Get your minds out of the gutter. He was holding the ball in his left hand.
P.S. If it had been an American football (instead of a British/European one), the caption could have read: “The Brown family never realized that this would be the only time their son actualy kicked the ball.“
P.P.S. By “he” I meant the father, not the son.
When a baby kicks, it pushes against mommy’s abdominal wall, which shows up on the belly. So the soccer ball was sitting in her lap, and that kid DOES have a heck of a leg.
If you extend the motion lines, it could lead to her wide open mouth.
James, if the ball was on her lap, I think we have some logistics problems.
I do see “resting on her lap” (in front of her baby bump) as the easy best answer.
“if the ball was on her lap, I think we have some logistics problems.”
Of what sort?
I’ve been trying not to think about where it was all day.
How finely do we have to analize a comic?
I wouldn’t have to think gross thoughts if they hadn’t been brought up. :-)
I counted the Secret Symbols as usual but only found 7 of the 8 claimed on the signature (bunny eyeball K2 pie O2 arrow saucer). I suppose the seemingly arbitrary 8 on the hanging jacket is #8, but I don’t recall ever seeing it before and it’s not in the bizarro.com list. Are we witness to the momentous birth of a new Symbol, the Eight of Octitude?
Nice coinage, Grawlix.
Come to think of it, I only found 7 of 8 in Andréa’s Bizarro earlier Sunday. Maybe they both have the Interrobang of Invisibility.
@ Treesong – I think the “8” is just a pair of buttons. A stick of dynamite is hidden at the top of the lamp’s post.
P.S. Last week’s “Bizarro” included a bit of a cheat: there were two sticks of dynamite (one under the table, and one on the drinks cart). Reading left to right, the rest were spaceship, O2, pie, eyeball, K2, bird.
The motion lines clearly trace back to her open mouth. I’m sorry, but that’s the way it is.
Ah, but apparently you are using conventional straight-line inertial physics. In many people’s mental models, an object being moved along a curved path will continue on an extension of that curve (not a tangent) after being released / unpowered.
“The motion lines clearly trace back to her open mouth. I’m sorry, but that’s the way it is.”
But they don’t, and it isn’t. Sorry.
P.S. Last week’s “Bizarro” included a bit of a cheat: there were two sticks of dynamite (one under the table, and one on the drinks cart).
Multiples of objects have occurred before and go into the count.
@ Brian – That is of course correct, but I still think it’s not quite proper form. I also remember (but of course cannot find now) one panel in which there was a large number of repeated symbols (probably crowns), which were not counted separately.
P.S. I am sorry to say that I have to agree with JP on the curve of the trajectory, but by no means with the abrasive way in which he stated it.
Was that the sound of faint praise I hear?
If you understand that we will agree with you when you’re right, perhaps you can consider that when we disagree, you might be wrong.
I tried finding an analysis with a drawing at this angle but could only find this (which still shows how much straighter the ball goes at first, before going into a more circular arc).
Trajectory analysis of a soccer ball
I find the little black segment that’s closest to them to be annoyingly low, maybe even too low for a chin kick. (..or is that just how low her mouth would have been opened by the ball?)
” perhaps you can consider that when we disagree, you might be wrong.”
It’s possible, just not very likely.