Baby Blues by Rick Kirkman and Jerry Scott for May 06, 2023

Zoe i suggest next time just bet Hammie a nickel.

Is she Elon Musk in disguise?

Is Hammie the kid in the Red Ball Jets?

Is that how Bill Gates got rich? He could jump over chairs when he was younger.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KxaCOHT0pmI

Alright! Hammie got a growth spurt.

He’s not getting anything. We know a million-trillion-guabillion dollars is all play money.

“What family, small strange girl?”

Well done, Hammie!

I did not know that there was such a number.

Nope! This one is all on you!

Fortunately, Mom has the authority to mint a Million-Trillion-Guabillion foil-wrapped chocolate coin.

Family?? It was Zoe’s bet and her’s alone. Since she can’t pay up, Hammie can go for the kill shot here of: no ridicule, bad mouthing, make-me-look-stupid, teasing, etc. for the next ten years.

Uh-oh.

The million-trillion I can understand, but that guabillion may require a second mortgage.

Hammie’s going to get an IOU.

When I was a kid, in a situation like this, when the winner would say “Pay up!”, we would say “OK, hold out your hand.” When they did so, we would act as though we were sprinkling “A dash of that” into a recipe. Sort of like that thing you’d do with your thumb and forefinger and saying “This is the world’s smallest record player, and it’s playing ‘My Heart Bleeds For You’…” ☺

Payable as a dollar a year for a million trillion guabillion years

Zoe, tell Hammie that the bet was in Indian Rial’s, then you will only owe him about $3.18.

No you didn’t. That’s not a real number, as Hammie would have known if he paid more attention in math class.

Not the family, Zoe. This debt’s on you.

The good news is that Hammie owes Zoe a similar amount of money over a bet on Zoe’s report card, so their debts should cancel out.

I hope you know every cent of that is coming out of your college fund!

How many Monopoly boxes of money ( and markers to add zeros) will Zoe need to get to cover that?

Is that more or less than a Brazillian?

Zoe and the My Pillow™ guy…

In your face, Zoe.

How many zeroes go after a guabillion?

Don’t bet more than you can afford to lose — because you probably will.

Time to declare bankruptcy.

Not family Zoe. You’re the one with the problem. As Hammie’s said “pay up”.

Haha! XD That’s more money than the entire world has!

Hammie actually bet zoe a similar amount a while back so I think they even out now.

Let’s put that into perspective. If you borrowed a million dollars and repaid it at the rate of one dollar per second, it would take 11 days to pay it off.

If you borrowed a billion dollars and repaid it at one dollar per second, it would take 32 years.

A trillion dollars? 32,000 years.

I have no idea how large a gabillion would be, let alone a million-trillion-gabillion.

Yes, I say Zoe has put the family in a difficult financial position.