Bloom County by Berkeley Breathed for April 20, 2010

Nice. Everything is going as expected.

Dad Jones is almost as laid-back as Lio’s dad! Oliver is rather droll in his understatement.

Why is he trying to kill his son?

To paraphrase Tweety, “Poor Oliver, he fall down and go BOOM!”

Was I retarded (sorry Sarah)? I could never get my chemistry set to go boom. Not a word about boom in the instructions. Oh, real boys don’t read——

I was wealthy (sorry Teresa?), but I didn’t have one.

My dad was a chemical engineer. Good thing, too, I asked about mixing and heating a couple of my concoctions.

would have given up a lot to have a chemistry set. But as a female I got dolls and such. My (younger & only) brother got the chemistry set and was not at all interested in it, but he wouldn’t share…..

You can still get Bactine?……….

LewreaderGenius_badge said, about 2 hours ago

Was I retarded (sorry Sarah)? I could never get my chemistry set to go boom. Not a word about boom in the instructions. Oh, real boys don’t read——

You should have looked up the formula for thermite… nice flash, burns at around 900 F, makes a nice hole in the table .. fire department not amused.. ahhh the days of my youth

and yes the eyebrows did eventually grow back .

My chemistry set had a formula for gun powder. Lighted unconfined in a spoon it made an impressive flash, and yes, eyebrows do grow back.

Homemade fireworks .. what fun !

Black-face is back?

Dad got one of those Globe Life policies, didn’t he?

In my younger days, my older brother had a chemistry set. The most creative thing we’d do is burn small bits of the sulfer that was included just because the stink it made was so bad.

Now he can NEVER be Michael Jackson.

took chemistry in high school…had only one explosion….built a hydrogen generator and was a little late liting the burner ……WHOOMP……went the lab.

Yeah, you can still get Bactine. It’s good stuff. Gotta love an antiseptic that’s got an analgesic.

Was I clueless (sorry, Barry!)?

I get the feeling that if the house was on fire, Mr. Jones would simply turn down the thermostat.

BTW, has anyone else noticed that father and son are both smoking today?

I originaly read this almost 20 yrs. ago, and man still funny.

Ah this would be the Nitrocellulose (flash paper) experiment.