Red and Rover by Brian Basset for July 16, 2020

What fun would it be if the kids listened?

Dirt is so cooooool!

I think Red is underestimating the distance to the Earth’s core. Maybe he’s seen too many sci-fi films about travelling to the Centre of the Earth. I remember that “At the Earth’s Core” and “Where Time Began” came out in the mid-1970s so they may be within the time-frame of this nostalgic comic strip.

Is that so, Red?

Actually, Rover is older and wiser in dog years!

Just like my boy – digging until tomorrow…and loving each minute of it…love and hugs to you, dear boys

It looks like Rover is going deeper than necessary.

Of course they don’t, Red.

So Red does pay attention in Earth Science? I thought most kids that age thought you could dig a hole and come out in China!

I sense bath time coming soon!

C’mon Red! Rover knows that for the first fifty feet or so the ground temperature does go down quite a bit before it starts climbing back up.

That kid wasn’t paying attention to his teacher during their Earth science lessons. Heck, he wasn’t paying attention during the B-movie marathon of ATTACK OF THE MOLE PEOPLE, RETURN OF THE MOLE PEOPLE, and SON OF THE MOLE PEOPLE.

How do you know he didn’t listen? He hasn’t dug that deep yet.

he should google how far down the inner is; about 1800 miles

I never knew our (late) little female BC did that until I went out on the deck one really hot day, looked down, and there she was in all her ermine-coated beauty, happily ensconced in a shallow broad pit of cool, newly-dug earth under the hollyhocks, happy as a clam and cool as a cucumber.

Red needs to understand just how far down that is.