According to a “silly” song written by Bilbo Baggins, the secret is that the Moon was just then down on the ground outside an inn which brewed really high-quality beer. The Man in the Moon had visited the inn and got sozzled on the good stuff. So the cow didn’t need to jump nearly as high back then. — as revealed by J.R.R. Tolkien in The Fellowship of the Ring
This put me in mind of an arc from several years ago. Does anyone else remember a storyline where all the unicorns jumped to reach outer space? I seem to recall they wished to stab the pretty twinkling stars with their horns for being sparkly?
The secret is achieving a velocity of 11.2 km/s (over 25,000 mph) to escape Earth’s gravity. Then you need to approach that sweet spot in Lunar orbit that you circle around back toward Earth instead of being flung out into space or falling onto the moon itself.
What the cow didn’t seem to factor in was re-entry and landing.
Averagemoe over 1 year ago
Fairy tales are more than true, not because they tell us that dragons are real, but because they tell us that they can be beaten.
codycab over 1 year ago
Cows also give milk. Your response, Marigold?
DanglingModifier over 1 year ago
Cow: That’s my secret, Marigold. I’m always angry. …wait no
sirbadger over 1 year ago
Wrong kind of helmet. She needs a spacesuit helmet.
Jungle Empress over 1 year ago
Obviously, the cow learned to fly from all the pigs who figured it out.
Enter.Name.Here over 1 year ago
Artemis “jumped” over the moon. Not “UNICORN”,… “NASA!”
eddi-TBH over 1 year ago
Wait until the Moon is lower.
droosan Premium Member over 1 year ago
But all it takes for a unicorn to get to space is to inflate their ego with compliments (as seen in October 2022, in the GC archive).
mistie710 over 1 year ago
Mooston, we have a problem!
iggyman over 1 year ago
Ah, You have to get a little dog that laughs, and a Running Dish with a spoon, then you’ll be all set!
MermaidStitcher over 1 year ago
The secret is perspective/camera angle.
French Persons Premium Member over 1 year ago
“Second star to the right, and straight on ‘till morning!”
prrdh over 1 year ago
Actually, it’s often true, just not factual.
Darwinskeeper over 1 year ago
So there wasn’t a man from Nantucket?
DHBirr over 1 year ago
According to a “silly” song written by Bilbo Baggins, the secret is that the Moon was just then down on the ground outside an inn which brewed really high-quality beer. The Man in the Moon had visited the inn and got sozzled on the good stuff. So the cow didn’t need to jump nearly as high back then. — as revealed by J.R.R. Tolkien in The Fellowship of the Ring
amaneaux over 1 year ago
Another great anticlimactic hop.
https://www.gocomics.com/phoebe-and-her-unicorn/2013/05/19
"Doon the Watter" on the Waverley over 1 year ago
This put me in mind of an arc from several years ago. Does anyone else remember a storyline where all the unicorns jumped to reach outer space? I seem to recall they wished to stab the pretty twinkling stars with their horns for being sparkly?
ars731 over 1 year ago
How now, jumping unicorn. Why so sad
Jonathan K. and the Elusive Dream Girl over 1 year ago
Hey diddle diddle,
The cat and the fiddle,
The unicorn jumped over the moon…
Phoebe’s right. It doesn’t work. The poetic meter is messed up.
DDrazen over 1 year ago
Ah, the return of the Great Anticlimactic Hop.
weshorse over 1 year ago
Marigold phone home
BiggerNate91 over 1 year ago
Blasphemy, Phoebe! Vitruvius the Wizard would like to have a word with you!
Joseph comicinthestrip over 1 year ago
WHAT IS YOUR SECRET, COW?! This is definitely in my top ten best one-liners list for PaHU.
Stephen Gilberg over 1 year ago
She could have someone bend down with their butt showing….
asrialfeeple over 1 year ago
https://ibb.co/D8fBND8
Neo Stryder over 1 year ago
You want to know the secret?: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hWKv9QS2tJA
Happy Cat Premium Member over 1 year ago
Very weird, on the print version in our newspaper, Phoebe’s comment was “Nice heirnet.”
Lizzybean over 1 year ago
The secret is achieving a velocity of 11.2 km/s (over 25,000 mph) to escape Earth’s gravity. Then you need to approach that sweet spot in Lunar orbit that you circle around back toward Earth instead of being flung out into space or falling onto the moon itself.
What the cow didn’t seem to factor in was re-entry and landing.