FoxTrot by Bill Amend for July 24, 2022

that’s going to be quite a sugar rush as well as a trip to the dentist and the colonoscopy specialist

That’s some mighty STIFF ice cream to hold together that many for that long!

Note that hexagons can tile the plane. Not very interesting. With pentagonal faces, though, you can make a regular dodecahedron (12 faces) which is more interesting to me … partly because 12-sided dice allow for some fun games.

No reason Bucky

I’d like to see her eat that without it falling apart and making a mess.

geo-taste-ic dome

There’s even more to Paige’s “genius” – after she completes it, she’s going to make it collapse perfectly while making it disappear.

especially in chemistry

I see the next TikTok challenge.

“I scream, you scream, everybody wants ice cream.” (Chris Barber)

Her parent’s grocery bill will be going through the roof!

Geodesics are fun until the ice cream melts.

Consumer large quantities of food is more of a Peter thing.

Looks more like organic chemistry

If only Paige could focus that type of knowledge in her schoolwork.

A Buckminsterfullercream?

More importantly, has Paige considered what that is going to do to her waistline? (Or does she have her older brother’s metabolism?)

Today’s classic FoxTrot Sunday strip:

https://www.gocomics.com/foxtrot/2001/07/22

“How about gluttony?”

So much for her stick like figure.

There are such things as food engineers. Paige you have found your career.

Where’s the scaffolding? That form won’t be self-supporting until it’s complete.

This looks more like something that Peter would do.

Knowing Amend’s expertise in math and physics, I tried to figure out what kind of polyhedron this was. It wasn’t easy, but a truncated icosahedron is the closest I could get. That has 12 pentagons and 20 hexagons, for a total of 22 faces. I only count about half that number, but the ratio looks close to right between the two types. And we can always assume the back half of the figure was hidden in shadow…Bill: am I close?

Because after years of watching you build ever more ridiculous ice cream cones, you’ve managed to make them increasingly ridiculous WHILE remaining perfectly stable, Paige. That’s why.

Looks like she has a good start on a Buckyball. Buckminsterfullerine…

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buckminsterfullerene

What kind of hedron is that?

When mom says you can have one ice cream cone.

She’d have to pass math.

Almost a complete dodecahedron. Hehehe

Here’s hoping she isn’t lactose intolerant.

When Paige rags on Jason for being a nerd and then does this…

cone of silence

The girl has got skills. Jason doesn’t know whether to be impressed or jealous.

Looks like a perfect shape Carl Sagan missed

She’s got a good fullerene going, seems more like Chemistry is her thing, not Engineering

“The Far Side” cow on the center carton

The cone to scoop ratio is too high.

Paige and Peter have more in common then ether want to think about.

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Because she doesn’t know what “engineering” means. :P :P :P

Buckminster Fuller would be proud.

When Jason’s impressed by Paige…..

HOW IS THAT Physically POSSIBLE

HHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW

like the ice cream

Far side reference on ice cream thing