Baldo by Hector D. Cantú and Carlos Castellanos for August 20, 2022

and Sergio approved of it? what will the school administration say?

Looks like it’ll be a lot of work transferring that to another backpack each day.

I didn’t know that was supposed to repel me. I have found the smell of garlic quite intoxicating since childhood

Garlic spray?! What? Does he honestly believe she’ll be dealing with vampires?

you sure that’ll work… some boys actually like that smell.

Won’t repel the boys of Italian families…

Lil’ smelly boys are already smelly—garlic will hardly be detected :)

At least it’ll keep away the boy vampires

Ah, a hint that Gracie isn’t as smart as she thinks she is. She has erasers. True geniuses are right the first time.

driving past a popular ramen shop the other day and smelling the garlic wafting on the breeze, we turned to each other and simultaneously said, boy, that smells good!

she needs to come up with a better repellant…

“I don’t mind my daughter wearing a bikini now – I mean, she looks cute with the top up here, and the bottom down here and the diaper under the bottom… but as soon as she starts to bloom, man, you can forget about them bikinis, Jack. She’s gonna wear nine pairs of long overalls… in the pool with nine pairs of ling overalls. The first boy comes within nine feet of her gets (shotgun noise). “What’d you do that for?” “I thought it was a shark, I’m sorry…” (From a comedian who shall remain nameless because he’s no longer popular)

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