Baby Blues by Rick Kirkman and Jerry Scott for January 22, 2024

If you weren’t around to see it, did it really happen?

Does it make a sound? Who cares.

If tattling was an art form, this girl would be a celebrated master.

Your stretching the truth again Zoe, hope your Mother sees through you!

She’s gonna ignore it, because most trees are big.

And once again, Zoe gets an A+ for her Tattling 101 class.

Yes, it makes a sound. The air molecules are vibrated when it crashes. Sound does not require to be heard.

It depends on how we define ‘sound’. If we define it as ‘vibrating air’, then I agree, a falling tree makes a sound. BUT, if we define it as a conscious experience, the lonesome falling tree does not make a sound. There, problem solved.

Zoe, shut up. Jeez.

The summer I spent in the northern Ontario bush, we discovered that birch trees rotted while standing. We enjoyed playing Hulk and pushing over large trees.

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Wanda, every time Zoe tries to rat out Hammie, smile and say “Hammie doing those things just makes me love him all the more! So, thanks, Zoe for telling me! I’ll go get Hammie an ice cream later today.”

Hammie doing sit-ups?

No, he’s pushing philos over. He’s becoming a philosoverer.

Yes, it does.

I’m surprised Zoe never heard of that little thought exercise before.

Kids like Zoe never lasted long in private school :D

If a tree falls on a mime in the forest does anybody care?

IS that the reason the bear went over the mountain? to see what made that sound?

The earth needs all the trees it can get.

Well Zoe is working on her woman listening to a man skills again.

Q: If Hammie does something wrong and Zoe is not around to see it, does she still tattle?

A: Yes.

Zoe is stumped.

That’s deep Hammie…

Didn’t see that one coming.

The actual philosophical question is whether it makes a noise. Sound is an objective phenomenon, independent of observers. Noise is a subjective judgment, requiring an observer able to make the judgment that it’s noise.

Very important question that my science class still won’t answer for me.

only human arrogance would assume that a person would need to hear it…what about all the birds and other wildlife within earshot? I guess they don’t count? Lol!

They seemed to have abandoned the spitwad incident. I’m surprised that no one has considered separating Hammie and Trent. If not separate classrooms, separate sides of the room. Trent’s been a bad influence since preschool. The only time I have seen him WITHOUT a malicious expression was when he was angelically denying any involvement with the spitwads.

If a man is a thousand miles away from the nearest woman and he says something, is he still wrong?

Answer: Well of course he is.

That’s a rather philosophical thought from Hammy at his age……

Oh Zoe, when will you grow up.

“Zoe the Tattletale " theme is getting a little stale. Maybe time to bring back some old characters- Trent was a welcome change last wee.

Vibration that propagates as an acoustic wave

In physics, sound is a vibration that propagates as an acoustic wave through a transmission medium such as a gas, liquid or solid. In human physiology and psychology, sound is the reception of such waves and their perception by the brain. WikipediaThe accepted frequencies are 20-20,000Hz.

Dumb question and very anthropocentric. The sound is made, and at the very least the bear heard it.

Haha! (＾▽＾)