I had a neighbor who would pack snow into a rough block-like pillar and carve beautiful sculptures therefrom. In a nice, snowy winter he would end up with a front yard full of artwork that melted each spring.
Not to be too anal retentive,a Canadian gallon consists of 4. 40oz quarts,and a U.S. gallon has 4- 32 oz quarts,hence 5 U.S. quarts would be equal to 4 Canadian quarts ,or 1 imperial gallon.Of course nowadays we use litres which is about 35 fluid oz.
3 Fighting FishThings were confusing enough back then, as grocers were none to clear about whose measures were being used. Quart, from quarter, four to the gallon. Strangely everyone agreed when I suggested a new quart, half way between, but were outraged at the idea it should be called a litre.
A lot of newspapers edit out the first two panels of Sunday strips for unknown reasons. As a result, “throwaway jokes” are often put there, or an extra joke. If during its original run the first two panels got censored, then it would be wordless. However, you are right, showing the entire strip does not make sense to call it a wordless strip.Since Calvin & Hobbes were mentioned, it is worth noting that Bill Watterson despised the newspaper practice of editing out the first two panels, as sometimes he included material germane to the strip. Censoring those threw the plot off the track.
The Canadian (Imperial) gallon was the volume of 10 pounds of water. The Americans chose the Wine gallon of Queen Ann (Anne?) which I believe was defined as so many cubic inches. The Canadian gal was 40 fluid ounces and the American gal 32 ounces. I once checked the metric equivalents and was surprised that the American fluid ounce was very slightly bigger than the Canadian fluid ounce.
Templo S.U.D. almost 9 years ago
Nice improvising. (As for the second panel, of course Lizard-breath hate the nose. Building snow-people is hungry work.)
legaleagle48 almost 9 years ago
Hey, whatever works!
CO Premium Member almost 9 years ago
They could have just had a snowman laying down. :-)
Strider Premium Member almost 9 years ago
A cartoonist who doesn’t know how to build a snowman…tsk tsk. YOU BUILD A RAMP TO PUT THE SNOWMAN TOGETHER, then you simply remove the ramp. ;)
rshive almost 9 years ago
The artistic vision often exceeds capabilities for building snowmen.
Chris Kenworthy almost 9 years ago
She actually ate a veggie? ;)
puggles almost 9 years ago
I had a neighbor who would pack snow into a rough block-like pillar and carve beautiful sculptures therefrom. In a nice, snowy winter he would end up with a front yard full of artwork that melted each spring.
freewaydog almost 9 years ago
Who’s the 3rd kid?
crazyliberal almost 9 years ago
I believe the little boy next door. Can’t recall his name but he eventually gets a little brother named Baby Richard.
Bakkie almost 9 years ago
And the third kid’s name is Calvin, right?
summerdog86 almost 9 years ago
Someone must have made another fridge raid for 2 more carrots.
dsom8 almost 9 years ago
The one on the left is just right.
mrgromit almost 9 years ago
Canadian kids know what “1000 lbs” means? I assumed it would have been kilos, or maybe ’tonne.’
Alphaomega almost 9 years ago
Not to be too anal retentive,a Canadian gallon consists of 4. 40oz quarts,and a U.S. gallon has 4- 32 oz quarts,hence 5 U.S. quarts would be equal to 4 Canadian quarts ,or 1 imperial gallon.Of course nowadays we use litres which is about 35 fluid oz.
hippogriff almost 9 years ago
3 Fighting FishThings were confusing enough back then, as grocers were none to clear about whose measures were being used. Quart, from quarter, four to the gallon. Strangely everyone agreed when I suggested a new quart, half way between, but were outraged at the idea it should be called a litre.
USN1977 almost 9 years ago
A lot of newspapers edit out the first two panels of Sunday strips for unknown reasons. As a result, “throwaway jokes” are often put there, or an extra joke. If during its original run the first two panels got censored, then it would be wordless. However, you are right, showing the entire strip does not make sense to call it a wordless strip.Since Calvin & Hobbes were mentioned, it is worth noting that Bill Watterson despised the newspaper practice of editing out the first two panels, as sometimes he included material germane to the strip. Censoring those threw the plot off the track.
Robert Craigs almost 9 years ago
The Canadian (Imperial) gallon was the volume of 10 pounds of water. The Americans chose the Wine gallon of Queen Ann (Anne?) which I believe was defined as so many cubic inches. The Canadian gal was 40 fluid ounces and the American gal 32 ounces. I once checked the metric equivalents and was surprised that the American fluid ounce was very slightly bigger than the Canadian fluid ounce.